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Chasse · High School Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 11 Location: Sweden

Im wondering from what age you do attend to a college or university? In Sweden university is from 18-19years.. Where can i find a university that has a womens hockey legue? Not in any top division tough Rolling Eyes

Im playing in a Division 2 leauge right now, i dont know how your div system works? But here it is like: girls league, U20 league, division2, division1 and national league ..
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FutureSuperstar93 · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:32 pm Post subject:

Most people go at 18 or older unless they graduate high school early.

http://www.uscho.com/women/
That site will give you all of the women's D-I, D-II, and D-III hockey teams in the US.

The college divisions have to do with the size of the school. The D-I level is the highest as far as skill. And D-II and D-III are the same level of play.

Chasse · High School Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 11 Location: Sweden

ok, so i could go in college? University? born in -87 and i have ´graduated from "upper secondary school"
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Chasse · High School Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 11 Location: Sweden

Ok thanks,

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Returning2MyNet · Minors Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 379

In US college hockey there are many levels D1 is the highest. There is no DII, next is DIII. The differnece between D1 and DIII is that a D1 program has varsity scholarships and DIII with the exception of 12 schools are not allowed Athletic scholarships and their season must be 10% shorter than D1
this article covers it well
http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/id,7693/ScholarshipsWillContinueForPlayUpSchools.html

Some schools use academic scholarships to work around this, yet the schools are audited by the NCAA and any academic scholar who is playing a sport is closely scrutinized.
If you have been paid to play hockey, received any compensation to play hockey you can not play college D1 or D3 hockey. this is the single largest hurdle in bringing many European players to play college hockey as compensation as defined can start at young ages.
There is also what is termed as "club" hockey. club hockey is now also governed and these leagues with player coaches or student coaches and little to no over head are starting to boom. The ACHA just crowned Oklahoma its D1 champions at Kent state (kent is a former D3 program.)
the womens ACHA
http://www.achahockey.org/league_news.php?league_id=1064

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Returning2MyNet · Minors Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 379

Returning2MyNet · Minors Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 379

A recent examination of all the rosters of the major junior leagues and U.S. colleges from the 1988-89 season gave a stark reminder of just how difficult the jump is from major junior or college to the NHL.

The 94 rosters from that season in the OHL, WHL and QMJHL in junior and the CCHA, WCHA, Hockey East and ECAC had a total of 2,428 players on them, 113 of whom have been or become NHL regulars in the nine years since then.

While there could be some exceptions, one would expect that players performing at those levels nine years ago would have either established themselves as NHL players or not by now. That means that at the highest level of amateur hockey, just 4.7 percent of players end up playing in the NHL.

Some of those rosters, though, had 25 or more players on them, so I decided to base the numbers on an average of 18 players per team -- which is how many would typically suit up for a game. That cut the number of players down to 1,692, which brings the percentage of NHLers up to 6.7 percent.

Which basically means that when you attend a major junior or college game, chances are that you'll be watching roughly one player on each team who has a legitimate shot at playing in the NHL.

Based again on the 18-man roster, the WHL had the best showing with 31 of a possible 324 players, for an NHL production rate of 9.6 percent. The OHL had 31 of 360 for 8.6 percent and the QMJHL 16 of 270 for 5.9 percent.

Overall, junior hockey from that season produced a total of 79 NHL players for a production rate of 8.3 percent.

In college hockey, Hockey East led the way with 11 NHLers among 162 players for 6.8 percent. The WCHA was next at nine among 162 for a 5.6 percent showing. The CCHA had six NHLers among 198 players for 3.0 percent and the ECAC had eight among 216 for 3.7 percent.

Overall, college hockey produced 34 NHL players among the 738 that played in 1998-99 for a production rate of 4.6 percent.

And chances are, once a player makes it to the major junior or college levels, he's going to be a fringe or average player. Of the 113 from 1998-99 who have established themselves as NHLers, just 29 could be considered above average players, while 46 would be considered average and 38 below average or fringe NHLers.

From that group, only Jonathan Cheechoo (Rocket Richard), Brad Richards (Conn Smythe and Lady Byng), Barret Jackman (Calder) and Andrew Raycroft (Calder) have won an individual award. Only Roberto Luongo, who has been a second-team all-star twice, has made it to a post-season all-star team. Only Justin Williams is among the top 20 scorers this season and only Jason Spezza finished among the top 20 last season.

In fact, the only true potential superstars of that group would be Spezza, who played that season as an underage player for the Brampton Battalion, and Luongo.

The fact is, far more careers end up going the other way. Many of these players end up chasing the dream through the backwaters of minor pro hockey or in Europe, and a great many others are out of the game altogether after their junior or college careers end.

Some end up like Nate Hagemo, a promising defenseman for the University of Minnesota who had been an elite-level player in USA Hockey for years and was a legitimate prospect of the Carolina Hurricanes. But a shoulder injury derailed Hagemo's career and he was forced to retire last season. U of M, to its credit, saw fit to allow him to retain his scholarship.

None of this is groundbreaking news, but it is something to ponder the next time you're watching Little Johnny dart around the ice with visions of an NHL career in your head.
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