Exceptions
The Canadian Development Model also allows for the exceptions to be made. Players who are extremely talented are given Exception Player status to play in a higher category, typically Major Junior.
The restrictions on 16-year-olds at the Junior A level can be seen as an attempt by Hockey Canada to reduce the amount of Canadian-born players leaving for the NCAA. The CDM hurts players' chances of being recruited by NCAA coaches and subsequently makes it easier for Hockey Canada to filter players through the Major Junior system.
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Famous quotes containing the word exceptions:
“... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools’ caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,—but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)