I think he is ranked 3rd simply because people still see him as Karlsson. Karlsson doesn't win you cups.
Now that Parehk is actually focusing on stuffing plays defensively, while playing incredible offence, he can arguably be placed higher up. In the end, it doesn't matter where he is ranked. What will matter is how well he does in the NHL over time. I would bet that there will be a handful of fan bases from teams that picked 1-8 upset that their team didn't select Parekh.
One of the things that really made me happy was how he looks at Makar and Hughes at lot for what they do, while also considering himself a different player than them. He didn't say anything about Karlsson. That to me made me much more optimistic about his real ceiling at the NHL level. I am not saying that he is going to be as good as Makar or Hughes, but simply that I don't he is going to end up as a one-way defencemen that you can't trust.
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