Let’s get the most obvious information out of the way first: Rasmus Dahlin is the best player in this year’s draft.
A Swedish defenseman who possesses every single tool you could want a blueliner to have, and prospects like him are incredibly rare and incredibly valuable. Barring nothing short of an act of fate, Dahlin is going to get chosen first overall by the Buffalo Sabres.
In a similar vein, it’s agreed upon by most scouts that Russian winger Andrei Svechnikov and Czech winger Filip Zadina are the second and third best players respectively out of this year’s crop.