Never understood the hype. I did have limited viewings of him so I tried to defer to others on this guy, but so many posters were ranking him our number 1 prospect etc. reminds me of the Poehling hype, two fringe prospects being glorified beyond belief.
This guy has no intensity/drive, loads of skill and no chance at becoming an NHL regular.
Norlinder had a couple very strong playoffs in the SweHL that led to him getting a lot of hype. I recall he had a couple bad concussions after that which didn't help his development.
The other reason for him being ranked high in our prospect pool was because how bad our drafting was in the years before he was drafted. From 2014 - 2018 our draft picks in the top 3 rounds were as follows:
2014: Scherbak, Lernout
2015: Juulsen, Vejdemo
2016: Sergachev (traded), Bitten
2017: Poehling, Brook, Ikonen, Walford, Fleury
2018: Kotkaniemi, Ylonen, Romanov, Olofsson, Hillis, Harris