{"id":556191,"date":"2026-04-19T18:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556191\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:18:28","slug":"opinion-the-trickle-down-effect-is-good-for-college-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556191\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: The Trickle Down Effect Is Good For College Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cross-pollination between the NCAA and CHL brings in new fans, growing the college game. Junior hockey in Canada has ravenous fans all over the country. When beloved players age out, they still have followings in their old markets. TSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/ncaa\/hockey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increased their NCAA Hockey coverage<\/a>, allowing for fans to continue supporting their favorite players. They have also TSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegehockeyinc.com\/2025\/03\/mens-ncaa-tournament-available-in-canada-on-tsn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">started airing the Frozen Four in 2025<\/a>\u00a0on their streaming platform TSN+,resulting in greater fan exposure across the\u00a0Great White North. This exposure benefits both fans and potential college hockey players, helping cultivate aficionados and new talent for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This cross-pollination between the NCAA and CHL brings in new fans, growing the college game. Junior hockey in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-556191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116432752102441297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}