• Finished seventh in OHL scoring among defensemen with 53 points (13-40--53) in 60 games.
  

• Participated in the OHL All-Star Classic and the CHL Top Prospects Game in 2008.
  

• Represented Canada at the Ivan Hlinka Under-18 hockey tournament in the Czech Republic in 2007.
  

• Former NHL goaltender, Frank Pietrangelo (Pittsburgh and Hartford), is his dad’s second cousin.
  

• Was selected third overall by the Mississauga Ice Dogs in the 2006 OHL Priority Draft – his first hockey team was the Nobleking Knights and he played for the Toronto Junior Canadiens for three years before being drafted into the OHL.
  

• His nickname is “Petro” and he wears number 10 because he enjoyed watching Pavel Bure growing up.
  

• His game time rituals include drinking “a bottle filled with half Gatorade and half water during intermission and chewing gum during warm-up”.
  

• If he wasn’t playing hockey he would be a fisherman and the one thing he couldn’t live without is his cell phone.

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