Now I'll say some good stuff about Broberg just to show I'm not totally biased.
The guy is very young... June 25th birthdate... so that's one fact in his favour... he's likely less developed and has some unseen upside at this stage.
Broberg also was a point per game in his 8 game regular season stint in SuperElit this past season... which is impressive. Any dman that puts up a point per game in Junior (and SuperElit is a good Junior league similar to QMJHL in quality)... is a good stat.
He also did well in the Allsvenskan league this past year. As noted by others... being a 17 year old dman playing 41 games in the 2nd best Men's league in Sweden is no easy task.
There's only been 5 other u18 dmen who have played 41+ games in the Allsvenskan league in a season so he obviously must have the confidence of his coaches to actually even stick on the roster in a Men's league at that age.
He scored 9 pts in 41 games... which is .22 pts per game... seemingly not that impressive BUT how many U18 dmen who played say 15+ games in the Allsvenskan league as a U18 player managed to do better than .22 pts game?
Glad you asked.
Answer...
Oliver Ekman Larsson did better... .44 pts/game in 39 games and we obviously know how well he turned out in the NHL
Oliver Kylington did better... .41 pts/game in 17 games... fairly small sample size
Magnus Hedlund did better... .39 pts/game in 44 games... but that was almost 20 years ago and he's a Dman/Centre who was 5'7" and 165lbs who went undrafted (likely because of his diminutive size).
Dick Tärnström did better... .33 pts/game in 15 games... again pretty small sample here though
Rasmus Andersson did better... a U17 and U18 season in that league... .29 pts/game in 38 games and .30 pts/game in 43 games... now playing in the NHL with Calgary
Tom Hedberg did slightly better... .24 pts/game in 21 games... fairly small sample as well... this was actually his U17 season in that league... so pretty impressive. He's 19 now (shortly turns 20) and has already played 3 seasons in the Allsvenskan and 1 year in the OHL with Barrie. Seems to have possibly somewhat topped out and stalled on his development path and went undrafted.
So there's only 6 dmen... and only 3 dmen actually had better pts/game seasons in the Allsvenskan while playing 30+ game seasons in that league as a U18.... and 1 of those was ~20 years ago and he was very undersized.
Broberg has NHL size already at 6' 3" and over 200 lbs and he's not even 18 yet (turns 18 in 5 days).
So yes, I acknowledge the appeal of Broberg... he has good size, is young and his stats are better than they seem (both in SuperElit and the Men's league).. but even saying all that... I still don't feel he has the upside potential of some of the better forwards that will be available for the Oilers to select at #8.
Just wanted to post a more unbiased evaluation of the player in comparison to his peers... he isn't a terrible pick... just that there are better options available.