After three years of playing for one of college hockey’s premier programs, Phil Di Giuseppe is ready to prove that he can make the transition to the pro game.

With free agent activity around the hockey world trickling to a halt, most teams, including the Checkers, have a pretty good understanding of how they project for next season.

The AHL recently announced a handful of rule changes, including a major overhaul of its overtime format. Derek Wilkinson, the Checkers’ senior vice president of hockey business operations and a member of the competition committee that worked on the changes, answers your questions here: