If you want to go the CHL Route and not drafted look at the bright side, you can go wherever you want. If you are good enough and want to play in the CHL and not drafted, you get to choose the Team with tradition, best coaching, and who is best suited to your type of play. There is nothing better than gaining control of where you are going to play. Unfortunately the players drafted don’t have choices in the CHL (you go where you are drafted). So to you undrafted players who want to play in the CHL, either get a lot better or search out other opportunities, but most of all look at where you can improve. This is not a race- it is a journey! A wise honest hockey scout told me once that he is more wrong than right and if all the scouts were really honest they tell you the same thing.
Hockey players are like all the people in the universe (they grow and mature at their own pace). Hockey scouts evaluate what they see now and what they forecast a player might be like in a few years. Take hockey out of equation, wouldn’t it be hard to forecast what a person going to be like in two or three years. Well hockey isn’t any different, it's really hard to forecast. Some players never make it past training camp and some undrafted kids make the NHL. Go figure! Some players try to take short cuts and try to speed up their development- let me be the first and not the last to tell you-There is no short cuts in hockey!
Roy Henderson
President
Global Sports Scouting Services Inc.
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