<P> Canadian universities and colleges recruit extensively from the WHL, affording graduating players the opportunity to continue playing hockey as they attend post-secondary institutions . The U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), though, considers graduates of the WHL (and the other two CHL members, the OHL and QMJHL) to be professionals and thus ineligible to participate in college hockey programs in the United States . Players hoping to receive scholarships to, and play for, American universities must play Junior A hockey in one of the Canadian Junior Hockey League's member organizations or the United States Hockey League to retain their NCAA eligibility . </P> <P> The WHL Bantam Draft is an annual event which teams select players from bantam hockey league age groups, 14 or 15 years old . The order of selection depends on the final standings of the teams, the last place team selects first the second to last will choose second and so on . </P> <P> Players aged 15--20 are eligible to play in the WHL, though 15 - year - olds are permitted to play only five games unless their midget team's season has ended . Also, each team is allowed to have only three 20 - year - olds on their rosters, unless there is an expansion team, in which case five 20 - year - olds are eligible to play . Each team is permitted to carry only two non-North American players . Each of the CHL's three member leagues are granted exclusive territorial rights to players from within North America . The WHL holds rights to players from the four western provinces, the U.S. Pacific Northwest, all other U.S. states west of the Mississippi River (except Missouri), and the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut . </P> <P> The Memorial Cup has been captured by a WHL team 19 times since the league's founding </P>

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