It was a wild day a few weeks ago when the 18 month old conversation culminated in a Union for CHL players. What? Yes a Union with reps mandating that the players get better treatment. So when did the high school team go on strike to go to college?
I know that the prospects of getting into the NHL are a key driver to the boys down in the juniors. The notches to the keys for each one of these players is socialization in the hockey world. They need to acquire that key knowledge of where their chemistry strengths and weaknesses are on the ice and in the locker room. The need to know when a fore-check is powerful enough to change the game and that a pay check will come with practice. They need to learn that the net is only 1 percent of the ice surface. These skills are what will get them the time into the NHL. But what Can the CHL offer them?
The CHL has the players in mind when signing a standard players contract.
First to know what the CHL Players Union is looking for we must know what the most similar contract is offering. So far they are offering nothing that the Dub does not already give out.
What first made me pause at the news of this was one, the demographic that the Union was to represent, and what dues players (a majority of which who don't get paid) must pay to join this ill conceived idea with no benefits to it. I still near a month later can't get a full grasp of why the CHL needs a Union.
To answer my first question. Nothing he brings nothing to the table.
