You conveniently forgot to mention that all your room and board is paid for, your food is paid for, your travel expenses are paid for and all your equipment and stick are paid for. Add all this up and each player is receiving close to $3000 per month. Multiply this by 18 players and each team is spending close to $55,000 per month on its players. Over the course of an 8 month season, each team is spending close to half a million dollars on its players. On top of this, the team has coaching expenses, gm expenses, scouting expenses, etc. It is rare to see a junior team sell out an arena game after game. The money a junior team makes is probably just enough to sustain the team's expenses. Junior team provide kids a chance to play hockey and to give exposure to professional leagues around the world. And if all this isnt enough, each player gets a free post secondary education once they are finished playing tier 1 junior 'A' hockey. If junior teams were to pay out any more money than what they are currently paying, teams would go bankrupt and there would be no junior leagues to play in.

This guy had 1 point in 32 career whl games which is pretty much half a season. While still a major accomplishment getting drafted and getting any ice time in the chl I do find it funny the only players I've heard complain about pay are the ones who never really did much lol

How much did they pay towards your post secondary education? Left a lot out there. Showed a small portion of the contract.

Tanks i learn a lot. What about the summer you have to find a job?

Im a 14 year old boy who's trying to make it to the NCAA, any tips you could give me now as kid who's still got lots of time left to even get to college hockey? I'd really Appreciate and learn from any tips i get from you.

So what i learned is we hockey fans need to do way better supporting hockey on all levels

Isn't there an option to not get a stipend and just play for a scholarship to a really good hockey program? I'm not sure how Canada's collegiate leagues work, but down here, if you get paid even a small stipend, you're playing professional hockey. I consider major junior hockey semi-professional because it's players get paid, and Junior A and tier 1 are high level amateurs playing strictly for scholorships and to possibly enter the NHL draft or secure contracts for ECHL or SPHL clubs. Just how I see it. Major Junior Hockey is one step down from fully professional hockey. Basically it's a defacto developmental territory.

how much did you get payed playing junior B in Richmond?

My local CHL team’s arena can only fit 3000 people not 5000 people

CHL is facing a multimillion dollar lawsuit.

Most people that own CHL teams are just the most wealthy people in the Community and don't do it for money just to say they own the team. Once they start losing millions of dollars because of The minimum wage those teams won't be around and everyone will just look for the NCAA contract. When I was JR age hockey it was free here in Canada now at the JR A level it's about 5000$ to start playing with a team and about 1000 to play JR B which was free five years ago. So when the CHL buckles to these lawsuits family's will be paying 10-20 thousand a year for the kids to play. The cost have a player dressed at retail. Helmet 300$ with visor , shoulder pads 200$ elbow pads 170$ pants 220$ shin pads 180$ jock 70$ skates 1000$ gloves 200$ mouthguard 40$ skate sharpen 6$ tape 5$ bag 50$ stick tape 5$ plus the 5/6 sticks player use a season at 300+. So in one season they get 10000$ worth of expenses on the players then each ice time is about 200$ an hour so let's say 15000$ each player in a season. The bus then is 2000$ a year for each player. And because they can't get college (NCAA )for free because they make 2000$ a year.

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Exploiting child labor laws? Not even close man. It is not a liveable wage I will agree... You don't need one. You get free school. Free food. A place to stay. Don't take those other things for granted. American football players walk on to college teams just for the love of the game and a chance at higher education. Exploiting child labor....maybe you don't love hockey. It feels too much like a job.

They should honestly should stop paying guys. So they are not classified as Pros anymore. The league will actually get better because guys won't be afriad to play there because they can go play NCAA which is better then Canadian college hockey. They NCAA will get better because they can pull from a better pool of players. Also Guys that get drafted in the NHL and sign contracts will be forced to play in the NHL or AHL. They wont have to wait until they are 20 because the CHL Holds your rights. The ECHL, AHL and NCAA will benefit from it greatly. But the USHL and NAHL will be hurt I think.