( March 21, 2025, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The National Collegiate Athletic Association filed a reply in support of its motion to dismiss claims that it illegally deterred players from playing in the Canadian Hockey League. “Plaintiffs seek to turn their grievances about a handful of eligibility rules into federal antitrust claims, potentially subject to treble damages, by mischaracterizing those rules as a ‘group boycott’ that purportedly prevented the Canadian Hockey League from recruiting elite young male hockey players and precluded some players from competing in Division I. But plaintiffs’ failure to adequately allege injury in fact, antitrust injury, or injury to the CHL reveals that this is merely an attempt to disguise plaintiffs’ dislike of the NCAA’s eligibility rules — which, like all sports-league eligibility rules, restrict participation — as an alleged antitrust violation,” it said. See attached file. ...
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