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this "The league has spoken, 17th, no better!" Is hilariously simplistic.
Of the 12 rankings on my NHL draft 10 of 12 had him between 7 and 16, 7 had him at 10 or higher with the highest being 7th. Of those 7 rankings that him no worse than 10th, there were 14 different players ranked ahead of him. 7 different opinion that all agree that he's no worse than 10th, and yet a very plausible scenario where he ends up at 15th.
Hell, expanding it to the 10 that had him no worse than 16th we end up with 18 players named ahead, potential scenario for 19th overall.
Of those players-
6 were consensus better (8,9, or 10 times ahead)- Patrick, Hirschier,Vilardi, Heiskanen, Glass, Middlestatd
3 were majority better (6 or 7) Tippet, Makar, Petterson
1 was a push (Necas)
3 were majority behind (3 or 4) Suzuki, Rasmussen, Tolvanen,
5 were concensus behind (1 or 2) - Kostin, Vesalainen, Andersson, Brannstrom, Valimaki
To be sure someone is going to ***** and moan about the 2 excluded rankings that had him 20+. Feel free to do the work, it doesn't change much. Bumps Suzuki up to a push, leaves him clearly in the top 12 and the overwhelming favourite as 3rd best D.
There were 14 different lists represented before Liljegren was taken, given the surprise of the scouting community at large that he was still available at 17 his final draft spot speaks more to the variation in the guys ahead of him than that he was consensus 17th