CALGARY – Teams in the Superior International Junior Hockey League will steadily get younger over the course of the next three years.
On Friday the Canadian Junior Hockey League, the governing body for Junior A teams across Canada, announced it would reduce the number of 20-year-olds allowed on each team’s roster by one starting in 2018-19.
Until now, teams could have up to nine 20-year-olds.
By 2021-22 that number will drop to six.
Teams will be allowed to have other 20-year-olds as affiliate players, but will not be permitted to play more than the limit in any game.
“The CJHL recognizes the importance of player development and advancement to higher levels of play,” said CJHL chairman Kevin Abrams, in a release issued on Friday.
CJHL president Brent Ladds concurred.
“Providing more on-ice opportunity for players in their prime development-age period, will certainly bode well for their futures and hopefully assist them along the path to their destination,” he said.
