Here's the tsn rankings for that year, where Hughes and Kakko were considered close.
https://www.tsn.ca/americans-set-to-...raft-1.1323878
They had Raphael Lavoie, Bobby Brink, Matt Robertson, Arthur Kaliyev, and Alex Vlasic as 1st rounders. Turcotte, Dach, Cozens, Zegras, Podkolzin, and Krebs all in the top 10.