If we didn't delist De Boer - we would have had one less spot to fill via the draft - so it's not irrelevant. In that instance, Ryan, being our last selection in the 2016 draft would not have been selected by us.
Without going into umpteen hypotheticals about who might have got him if we didn't or that we might have got him via the PSD or Rookie Draft - the basic equation, to follow the line of this thread, is that to retain De boer - we would have not picked up Ryan. My point is our side will be better for it, in the long run, by delisting De Boer and getting Ryan.