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Originally Posted by jmac98
I want to disagree with this, but wish to give you the benefit of the doubt that you've seen these lists?
I have never seen the lists to verify, so am just going off how the drafts typically play out with the early selections each year. The only question marks tend to be upon which order a generally understood group of players go.
I could be wrong, so please don't misconstrue my thoughts for ignorance. I'm merely a voice of non expertise making conversation.
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I haven't seen the lists this year but in 20 years of following the draft closely I've noticed that surprises are the norm in the draft. The "consensus" list done by Bob Mackenzie might be the best guess at the draft order but his list does not closely resemble every team's lists.
For example I think all of the following may be true:
-Some teams have Nylander top 6 while others may not have him top 10
-Some teams have Chychrun top 6 while others may not have him top 10
-Some teams have Brown top 6 while others may not have him top 10
-Some teams have Jost top 8 while others may not have him top 12
-Some teams have Juolevi as the top dmen
-Some teams have Sergachev as the top dman
-Some teams have Chychrun as the top dman
-It's not inconceivable that certain teams may have Bean, Fabbro or McAvoy as the top dman
-Some teams have Gauthier top 10 while others may not have him top 15
-Some teams have Mike McLeod top 10 while others may not have him top 15
-Some teams have Keller top 10 while others may not have him top 15
-Some teams have multiple defensemen in their top 7 while other teams may have zero defensemen in their top 7
These are examples but I think we could do the same for most of the players in this draft. I think what we'd find if we could look at all the lists is that there is not very much consensus at all outside of the top 3 players this year.
Which players outside the top 3 do seem to have some consensus around them? Seems like Tkachuk is top 5 for most teams. Seems like Dubois is top 8 for most teams. Seems like Juolevi is top 10 for most teams. Outside of that I see almost no consensus at all.