Bob Stauffer

It just isn't.

And of those 23 teams, realistically, there's just nowhere near the same player depth.

If anything, the WHL might have to look at becoming a 15 team

to 18 slash 19 year old league and just eliminate the 20 year olds as well what ended up happening is a lot of the best guys that were going to be 20 year olds in the whl went to sort of second tier ncaa programs and some of the top end players out of the western hockey league the aforementioned gavin mckenna like medicine hat ended up losing in six to prince albert in the opening round

You think they lose that series if Gavin McKenna stays with the Medicine Hat Tigers?

No chance.

Gavin McKenna ends at Penn State, ends up at Penn State.

Jackson Smith, defenseman, played for Bob Torrey and the Tri-City Americans.

Mid-first round pick of the Columbus Blue Jackets, ends up at Penn State with Guy Gnowski.

And then you have the two kids that left the Victoria Royals, Cole Reschne,

right calgary flames first round a good pick by the flames and the aforementioned keaton verhoff consensus top five pick for this year's round they leave victoria and they go to north dakota and north dakota is a final four ncaa program that's you know what that's a really good program um and the tigers you know they didn't just lose gavin mckenna they lost caden lindstrom

who was the fourth overall pick a couple years ago to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

And Lindstrom went to Michigan State, the same school that Isaac Howard ended up winning the Hobie Baker.

By the way, Isaac Howard will play for Team USA in the upcoming World Hockey Championships.

Josh Szymanski will play for Germany in the World Hockey Championships.

Matthias Ekholm

will play for Sweden in the World Hockey Championships.

And as we know, Evan Bouchard and Darnell Nurse both will play for Team Canada as well.

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