The NCAA Division I Council is considering making a landmark change in eligibility rules this week that would allow Canadian Hockey League players to compete at U.S.
colleges, as long as they are not paid more than actual and necessary expenses as part of that participation.
“This proposal, focused on a singular issue, represents a pragmatic step in aligning skiing and men’s ice hockey with other sports in terms of allowable pre-enrollment activities,” said council chair Josh Whitman, who is also the athletic director at Illinois. “We’re hopeful that the NCAA will do the right thing at the upcoming meetings and vote to end the ban on CHL players from NCAA Division I hockey,” Stephen Lagos, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit, wrote in an email to the AP. “We believe that all players, and hockey more generally, would benefit from this change.”
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Riley Masterson of Fort Erie, Ontario, who lost his college eligibility two years ago when, at 16, he appeared in two exhibition games for the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires. It lists 10 Division I hockey programs, which were selected to show they follow the NCAA’s bylaws in barring current or former CHL players.
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