Is there a rift emerging between high school hockey and the junior ranks?

Check out this article written by Derek Felska about a high school hockey coach having issues with their high school players leaving school early to play in the junior ranks. Personally I don't have a problem with this because they play such a limited number of games in the high school ranks. I can see how some coaches might get upset if they are counting on a kid to play for their team and decide they would like to play in the NAHL or the USHL.

High School hockey coach challenges the practices of NCAA Hockey Coaches
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Gorg asked Tony Sarsland what he thought of High School players leaving early to go play junior hockey instead of finishing out their high school career before they went onto play Division 1 college hockey. Sarsland said he questioned whether it was necessary, noting that in his 25+ years of coaching that only one player, Nate Prosser (currently playing for Colorado College) made it to the Division 1 ranks after opting out of high school hockey early. He also made mention of a hockey conference he went to where University of Minnesota Golden Gophers Head Coach Don Lucia who spoke about how frustrating it is to have players leave his team early to go to the pro's and felt the National Hockey League should perhaps do something to limit this. Sarsland mentioned how he raised his hand and thought it was very hypocritical of Lucia to complain in this situation considering how Division 1 college coaches encourage players to leave their high school programs to go play Jr. A hockey in the NAHL or USHL. While Sarsland said he had nothing but respect for Jr. A hockey, he feels that Minnesota High School hockey has plenty of opportunities for athletes to compete at a high level of competition, in addition to the Elite / Select teams high schoolers can participate in for additional games beyond their normal high school schedule

Seems that Gopher hockey coach Don Lucia is getting getting a lot of press (not all of it positive) as of late. Apparently Luica is trying to pull the scholarship offer of a player that was hurt while playing for his junior team. Recently, he had another player get hurt while playing football and wasn't all that happy about it but has since kind of back off of his initial comments.

Tony Sarsland, was also asked about another of his former players, standout defenseman Brandon Martell. Martell suffered a severe shoulder injury while playing Jr.A hockey after an excellent high school career at Elk River. Since the injury, Sarsland said Lucia had tried to get Martell to relinquish his scholarship which the Elk River coach says goes against what the Golden Gopher coach told his parents when he recruited him. Sarsland stated that Lucia said he would have a scholarship as long as he was able to cut it academically, and the High School coached noted that Martell had a GPA of 3.8 and felt it was a disservice to want to force a kid off of scholarship if he had done everything that had been asked of him. While this issue may be unrelated, but Martell did not play other sports. He did not take any unnecessary risks so why should he be criticized by Lucia the same way Budish was for his choice to play football. Sorry, you can't have it both ways Coach Lucia.