Is that why you come here?
I don't get the team's perspective. I guess someone was going to take him eventually, but they wanted to push him into a mold of this anti-bullying leader. You'll kind of know at 18 if you've got that type of guy. Twitter also seems to be preordaining that he's going to have an NHL career. Not necessarily. He's very likely to spend quite a bit of time in the minor leagues/Europe. He's like a 2nd round talent. Plenty of those guys disappear.
In the 2003 draft that everyone holds in such high regard, 9 of the 2nd round draft picks never made it to the NHL. 13 others played 57 games or fewer. But the round also gave us Patrice Bergeron, Shea Weber, David Backes, Jimmy Howard, Loui Eriksson, Matt Carle, and Corey Crawford.
Those numbers seem high (9+13), but in 2003, they were still doing the pre-2004 lockout format when the league gave compensatory draft picks for losing veteran UFAs so the second round that year were picks 31-68. I could cut it off arbitrarily to fit the current format, but it already provides a margin of error into what would be the 3rd round.