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Draftees Talk College Hockey

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Phil Di Giuseppe had 11 goals and 26 points as a freshman at Michigan.

A total of 68 current and future college players were taken at the 2012 NHL Draft, and College Hockey, Inc. caught up with many of them to talk about their NCAA experiences and expectations.

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Michigan's Phil Di Giuseppe and Wisconsin's Jake McCabe were the top two current college players selected, by Carolina and Buffalo, respectively. They talked about how playing against more mature players helped prepare them for the draft:

Most of the college players taken in the NHL Draft are incoming freshmen. A number of them, including first-round picks Jacob Trouba, Nic Kerdiles and others, talked about what led them to college hockey: