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Post by YoungRed92 on Feb 9, 2024 19:52:19 GMT -4
So here’s your invitation, it’ll cost you about $1000, likely more
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Post by JPA on Feb 9, 2024 20:13:58 GMT -4
So here’s your invitation, it’ll cost you about $1000, likely more And the last enjoyable week of the summer before training camps open - meaning players give up the final three weeks of August. Ouch! I hope it flies - but even for Nova Scotia players living near the border in Amherst - it's a long daily drive. It isn't like 15 and 16 year-olds can jump in their cars - drive themselves and motel it with other players. Scouts will be sending back their scouting reports to the teams who ALREADY drafted those players. How novel. . . Guessing the paid women scouts are already booked at the best first class motels - while their unpaid male counterparts might get gas money from their MHL teams. I'd say closer to $2,000 when you factor in three nights accommodation, gas and meals. The parents might look at it as they're going to need that money when the real camps go in a week later. Add in vacation days of parents being used up and it might be a hard draw. As far as the free subscription from Elite Prospects - you can get that with a free trial subscription, and the option to access their profile from Neutral Zone comes with a cost - so how many will want that being already QMJHL and MHL drafted? You pay for that kind of info BEFORE you get drafted. There I go being negative again - and I guess I should keep it to myself and wait and see how it goes.
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Post by ap on Feb 10, 2024 18:47:19 GMT -4
So here’s your invitation, it’ll cost you about $1000, likely more Hard to believe the league can't find a corporate sponsor in all of Atlantic Canada willing to cover the full cost for players......hopefully they will.
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Post by JPA on Feb 11, 2024 12:10:37 GMT -4
So here’s your invitation, it’ll cost you about $1000, likely more Hard to believe the league can't find a corporate sponsor in all of Atlantic Canada willing to cover the full cost for players......hopefully they will. Just saw this. I'm not looking to weigh in on every topic - but this one has my interest. I don't think any sponsor will ever override the cost for players and parents to stay at motels or anything remotely close. The costs would be astronomical if there are hundreds of players. The article above mentions 20 teams or roughly 400 players - and an expected total of 1,000 visitors to the area. At even a low estimate of $1,000 per player - it would be $400,000 dollars. I heard that Metalfab's MHL sponsorship for multiple years was only in the $50,000 range. That was just a rumour at the time they signed on. Before that, I had heard that the Canadian Tire deal had also been in the $50,000 range. Those numbers might be way off. I could definitely be wrong - and it would be awesome if it ever happened that somebody did step up and cover the full costs for the players as mentioned above. My guess is more that parents might look at this event as going to cost a lot of money that they will need a week or two later for when the real training camps go in - Major Junior - Junior A and U18. Parents want to attend those things as well - and it gotta be costly. Do you use up $1500 - $2,000 for this - or do you save it for the next couple of weeks? They need to draw the line somewhere when it comes to costs and how to spend the summer. I'm interested to see how this plays out. It's some bold thinking and some forward thinking by the league leadership. If they can build on it and make it work - I'll be through the roof supportive. I'm apprehensive - but not at all against the venture. It's progressive thinking - and that's the direction the league wants to go in.
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Post by ndub99 on Feb 11, 2024 16:52:54 GMT -4
So here’s your invitation, it’ll cost you about $1000, likely more Hard to believe the league can't find a corporate sponsor in all of Atlantic Canada willing to cover the full cost for players......hopefully they will. lol can you imagine? I’m sure that there are company’s that will sponsor but that money is going straight into the organizers pocket, no matter how much they get in sponsorship they still won’t reduce the cost to parents
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