Canadian junior hockey player Rylan Masterson has filed a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA and 10 universities, claiming that the NCAA’s rules unfairly prevent players who have appeared in major-junior hockey games from participating in NCAA hockey.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court, argues that the NCAA’s policy violates antitrust laws by being anticompetitive.
Masterson, 19, was deemed ineligible for NCAA play after appearing in two preseason games with the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires, despite spending the last three seasons with the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Fort Erie Meteors.
(Written by: Brandon Warby)
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