DAN MACKENZIE

THE CHL’S PRESIDENT TALKS ABOUT HOW COVID AFFECTED JUNIOR HOCKEY, THE IMPACT OF THE NCAA RULE CHANGE AND WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

WITH W. GRAEME ROUSTAN

W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: You’ve been doing this now for five years. How’s the last five years been? DAN MACKENZIE: You know what? It’s been great. It has not been smooth. There’s been a lot of things that have gone on in the last five years. I started in September 2019, after I’d spent my career at NBA Canada, and I was recruited to become the first full-time CHL president. And the first six months were exactly what I expected they were going to be. The transition with David (Branch), Ron (Robison) and Gilles (Courteau), the (OHL, WHL and QMJHL) commissioners at the time, was well underway. And then, in March 2020, COVID hit, and all of our worlds changed. The first few years after that, some of the initiatives were all…

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