yzerman19

Agree if you (and more importantly your kid) are ready to do boarding school at 14.

Lotta Minnesota guys from the red river valley, or with Regional roots, or current/alumni of Breakaway Academy (Chyzyk) performed extremely well at the big WSI tourney AND/or were drafted pretty high in the WHL draft. Gotta think Jax and Bryn are piped in there.

Nephew I believe

No doubt he's good. The hard part in evaluating is that Minnkota is a bubble and 09's don't play 10's (and some 11's) anywhere else. So it's about seeing the players vs the rest of the top end kids in systems and age group. That's why US nationals, WSI, Kings of Spring type stuff is so important from a scouting perspective

Agree with this. I do think Marto can get there with some time. Especially in USHL.

Draft order in WHL draft is getting better with NCAA. Its still not perfect, but of the kids I know that got drafted, they all belong in the conversation. Congratulations to every kid that got their number called for a path to the next level. Joey Cullen would be a top 2 pick if his dad didn't own part of the Force and he wasn't a virtual lock for NTDP. Kid is an absolute talent and will play hockey for a while.

remember, only kids that aren't that good are thrilled to just be on the team....

your point and reference are fair. I just gotta say...Puck Preps...of all the "pay for" services, they seem to be most disconnected from the real scouting universe from what I've seen and know.

Thus far they aren't ripping it up, but they are tweaking it downward

More chippaz to CHL more older grindaz to USHL

One big difference is the CHL scholarship $. You get money for school by playing in that league. Now that you can get a school scholarship from NCAA on top of that, that's a big difference. USHL does not currently offer that.

magnum PI theme song or the classic "Father Figure" by George Michael lol

Dementia is not funny... Keep it to funny things...like full blown AIDS

Yeah, I haven't heard details on that deal either. I know that the NHL provides development money, and historically that money went to the NTDP, but I don't know the latest and am not in tune with how the funds flow in any detail.

USHL will be diluted more for sure. Its that next Tier though...the NAHL and the Junior A teams in Canada that are really going to hurt. The WHL draft coming up in 2 weeks will be very interesting with the new rules. As a result the US Draft will likely be significantly different than years past.