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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have to give USA Today a ton of credit.  You don’t see investigative reporting like that anymore.

Look…it just makes me question even more why anyone signs their kid up to play hockey.  The entire system all through these junior hockey teams appears so broken and stupid.[/quote]

What's weird about juniors and fake pro hockey is some of my sons' best friends were sucked into this and now they are in their late 20s still making nothing on this pseudo pro circuit in random podunk towns. Meanwhile my sons, who graduated high school with these same kids, are working professionals with five plus years of experience, promotions, wages, and retirement savings.

It's as if these hockey boys don't know when to cut their losses and begin real life?[/quote]

Perhaps the MLB Minor leagues are more transparent...I don't know...but it sounds kind of similar.   I guess the difference is that most baseball players either get drafted direct into the MLB system from high school, or they start college still at like 18/19 (maybe they redshirt for one year), and then go into the Minors system usually with a college degree.

Certainly, there are many Minor league baseball players who have been knocking around for a decade making peanuts and have no college degree...with the hopes of somehow getting called up.[/quote]

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