two of the sources I linked to were NHL's Central Scouting, and ISS. The two most renowned scouting services in the world. Literally professional scouting organizations. Both had him outside the top 3. You are unbelievable.
Even if we accept this - which is tricky, since Grigorenko is third on that list and Grigorenko fell extremely hard in the month preceding the draft - there isn't really a point to this isn't it? You're so keen on making the weirdly irrelevant point that Galchenyuk wasn't a consensus pick at third that you're willing to take a list that had Yakupov Murray and Grigorenko ahead of him as evidence of what, Timmins messing up? Let's be pedant a bit and just say that the consensus was that both Galchenyuk and Forsberg were the best forwards available, and that the consensus when the pick was made was that it was the right and logical pick, then. Galchenyuk only had an iffy ranking at times because of the year missed, that was the general wisdom at the time.
Was that the year Timmons let Reilly / Trouba / Ceci goooo? Yes Timon’s is to blame. They picked by position and not BPA
We need to always pick best player available. Trade them later if need be. But always BPA
No one, literally no one, was saying that that these three were BPA. BPA isn't necessarily the player will be the most valuable out of all the players guaranteed cause that's an absurd task to ask of both the scouts and the player considering how impossible these things are to predict. Reilly is, again, one of two players you could have argued, maybe, even though hardly anyone thought Reilly was in the conversation and that might have been Burke's only moment of genius in his tenure over the Leafs.
But anyway... that list doesn't really make sense much either. Galchenyuk isn't a bust for the Habs, like at all. He was a good offensive player for a few years, with a high of thirty goals and some moments of brilliance. Even if it's not what everyone hoped for and rightly so, that definitely wasn't negative value in a middling draft, and we were able to turn that into a potential first line centre, or at least a first line forward before his value cratered. The Galchenyuk pick is definitely not why this team struggles to take the next step, and it's wild to say that Timmins should have picked fricking Ceci even with the benefit of hindsight considering what that pick did for us and much more it is than Ceci would have. It's arguably more than Trouba too, who put together a few good seasons, a few uneven ones, and got traded for way lesser assets than Domi.