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Well this board has thought many things that are wrong and its opinion are irrelevant (mine included). We missed Pesce and Fast a heck of more than any impact Guentzel had in the playoffs. He made little impact on the PP and the PK + right side of the defense was torched in the playoffs
Okay, but that's literally hindsight bias. There was no way to know Pesce or Fast would get hurt, so to suggest that we should have traded for a shutdown defenseman instead of an offensive threat is simply wrong, given what the team needed at the time.
And again, Guentzel was one of (if not THE) most successful trade deadline acquisition this organization has ever had. You can waive away his point totals like they don't matter, but that's doing a serious disservice to the impact he had.
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