Here's something that I found interesting from HFBoards
A list of all high school players taken in the first round in past drafts
'11 Entry Draft:
None.
'10 Entry Draft:
Kevin Hayes (24th)
Brock Nelson (30th)
'09 Entry Draft:
Nick Leddy (16th)
Chris Kreider (19th)
'08 Entry Draft:
Jake Gardiner (17th)
'07 ENtry Draft:
Ryan McDonaugh (12th)
'06 Entry Draft:
David Fischer (20th)
'05 Entry Draft:
TJ Oshie (24th)
Matt Niskanen (28th)
'04 Entry Draft:
Blake Wheeler (5th)
Cory Schneider (26th)
Other than Fischer, all of them are pretty good
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