Button's list is always interesting because he's not afraid to go against the grain. Will say though that the list I anticipate most every year is Bob McKenzie's, in terms of accuracy.
I decided to look at McKenzie's rankings dating back to the 2008 draft. Here are the average deviations of the actual pick # versus where McKenzie had them ranked, split into 5-pick groups:
#1-5 = 1.14
#6-10 = 2.29
#11-15 = 3.91
#16-20 = 4.60
#21-25 = 6.23
#26-30 = 7.87
His latest list I can find is from January (
http://www.tsn.ca/mcdavid-the-unanim...nking-1.193058). Using today's reverse standings and assuming we don't win the cup, we'd pick 15th overall. Using McKenzie's average accuracy + ranking, it'd suggest we're likely taking one of these 9:
Kylington D
Provorov D
Connor C
Bittner LW
Konecny RW
Zboril D
Carlo D
White C
Merkley C
I've been staring at this post for 10 mins now and wondering if it makes any sense. I had a very late night...