Vancouver Canucks Sign Draft Pick, NIL Shifts College Hockey

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00:00The Vancouver Canucks first-round draft pick.

00:04Kids are stud.

00:05They just drafted him.

00:06The draft was like last week, 10 days ago or whatever.

00:09So they just drafted him.

00:10They actually just signed him.

00:12So it doesn't mean he's going to make the team right away.

00:14But I saw that he got a $500,000 signing bonus.

00:18So the base salary is $975,000.

00:22That's like the minimum salary in the NHL.

00:25And he got a $500,000 signing bonus.

00:30And, of course, we know the story now of Gavin McKenna,

00:33who's the kid's going to be the number one pick in the NHL draft next year.

00:37He just signed with Penn State for one year for $700,000.

00:41So it's like Penn State just gave him more than the Vancouver Canucks

00:46gave like the 15th overall pick in the first round of the NHL draft.

00:51Like if they're going to start throwing around this type of NIL money

00:54in college hockey, then, you know what,

00:57we really are in a brave new world right now.

00:59And I really was bored at the wrong time in the wrong generation.

01:03Because, hell, I even would have been worth a couple of hundred K

01:06in today's landscape.

01:07Let's roll.