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Wisconsin represents well at NHL Draft

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Bucky Badger logoAfter Wisconsin’s Luke Kunin (15th overall pick by Minnesota) and Trent Frederic (29th overall by Boston) were selected in the opening round of the NHL Draft on Friday night, three more Badgers were selected on Saturday.

Defenseman JD Greenway went to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round with the 72nd pick overall, Max Zimmer was picked by the Carolina Hurricanes in the fourth round with the 104th overall pick and Philip Nyberg went to the Buffalo Sabres in the fifth round with the 129th overall selection.

Wisconsin’s 2016 draft class extends the Badgers’ streak to 19 consecutive years in which one of their incoming or current players were drafted.  The five-member class is also the largest since the 2011 draft also saw five Badgers selected.

 

Two Badgers taken in NHL Draft

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For the 16th straight year, at least one Wisconsin men’s hockey player heard his name called at the NHL draft as incoming freshmen Grant Besse and Jedd Soleway were both chosen on Sunday at the 2013 NHL Draft in New Jersey.

Besse, a Plymouth, Minnesota native went in the fifth round to the Anaheim Ducks at 147th overall, while Soleway, from Bernon, British Columbia, was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in the seventh round at 193rd overall.

The reigning Minnesota Mr. Hockey, Besse earned fame in 2012 when he scored all five of his team’s goals in the state championship game to lead Benilde-St. Margaret’s High School to the state title.

The Badgers boast 149 all-time NHL draft choices and 76 alumni who have actually skated in the NHL.  The 2013-14 Badgers now boast nine NHL draft picks on the roster.

Badgers represented in NHL Draft

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Two current Wisconsin men’s hockey student-athletes and one future student-athlete heard their names called during the second day of the 2012 NHL Draft

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on Saturday. 

Forward Nicolas Kerdiles (Irvine, CA) heard his name early on Saturday when his hometown Anaheim Ducks made him the 36th overall choice a few picks into the second round.  Kerdiles will be a freshman at Wisconsin this fall.  He spent last season as a member of the U.S. Under-18 Team, and among other accomplishments, helped Team USA to gold at the 2012 IIHF Under-18 World Championship as the squad’s leading scorer. [Read more…]