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The NHL has introduced performance-based name, image and likeness compensation, a first for a youth hockey league. North America.
The USPHL announced this week that starting now, the league-wide NIL cap will be $250,000 per season, with $180,000 for the Super League and $70,000 for the National Collegiate Development Conference. money Individual honors will be allocated as well as championship success.
“The American Hockey League is now the only youth hockey organization where players can earn proven zero revenue while competing at elite national levels, thereby reducing or offsetting tuition costs, building measurable leverage for college admissions, and advancing through a paid performance-based development ladder,” the league said. “Rather than paying an unrewarded price to compete, athletes now compete within a system that rewards financial and developmental excellence.”
The system, which the league calls its modernized form, comes as the sport’s landscape changes National Collegiate Athletic Association Rule changes are reallocating U.S. development talent Canada. Some players in the United States Professional Hockey League (USPHL) go on to play college hockey.
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