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With the 90th overall pick at the 2020 draft, the New York Islanders selected Alexander Ljungkrantz. The Swedish forward wasn’t projected to go that high in the draft, but the Islanders saw enough quality in the player that they didn’t want to wait for the later rounds.
The earliest I had seen him pop up in pre-2020 mock drafts was with the 106th overall pick. Some didn’t have him drafted at all. So taking him at 90 was a stretch for the Isles.
Over the months since he was drafted we’ve seen that there’s some quality there with Ljungkrantz with impressive production at the J20 level and now at the Hockeyettan (Div 1) level.