Question about Major juniors

[MKoivuFan]

I know WHL u have to wait a full season before u can invite players but i was wondering when in the OHL can u start to offer a try out for ur unsigned prospects july? I'm not talking about training camp im just talking about the basic try out invite

[Loosie]

I think you just need to wait until July or August. And also anyone that is currently playing for, or accepted and offer to play at a US College you won't be able to invite to training camp.

[MKoivuFan]

thats ok thanks Loosie... Just want to have a summer prospects camp like real life teams do with my prospects against players their own age... My question is which teams are 16 yr old i know theres U16E i believe it is or USHL teams but any other 16 yr old teams that might have players in the game that my group of 16 yr old players can play against?

[racicot]

I know there are several midget AAA leagues (like Midget Espoirs in Quebec and NB Midget AAA). There should be an equivalent in Ontario, but I can't think of the name.

[MKoivuFan]

I tried looking for a thread about training camp but got a error so i thought i would just post it in here since it has to do with Major Juniors anyways... Whats the max u can invite to camp? 62 or 68 players?

[Loosie]

I've never hit the maximum because you are only allowed to have a max of 50 players on your reserved list. I tend to build through the draft rather than random tryouts.

There are 15 rounds in the draft, plus two rounds of import players, which means if you draft to that 'maximum' (no extra draft picks or anything), then you have 17 new players coming in plus what you already had. (Again assuming that you were carrying 50 players the previous year) you need to drop 17 players right away.

A large part of playing major junior is roster management.

[MKoivuFan]

How i base it is if u I play WHL if u dont make my team by 18 i release u or trade u bc u draft them at 15 so u would have 3 yrs to develop... If u dont make my team as a OHL team by 18 i still trade or release u but what i usually do is have like a mini pre-season schedule during camp so like split my camp into the 4 intra-squads and then schedule 2 games per team during camp during like sept 3-10th and then that gives me a good idea who to keep and who to let go but i figure 17 players per team type thing 50 of my reserves and then 15-17 invites