Only a week ago, Wild General Manager Bill Guerin expressed caution while talking about his objectives prior to Monday's NHL trade deadline.
The Wild's power play was scuffling. The Wild's penalty kill unit was perilous. Its goaltenders were conduits to the back of the net for pucks. Nothing seemed to work, but Guerin warned he couldn't snap his fingers or twitch his nose and make everything better.
"You can't trade your way out of problems. It's just impossible," he said at the time. "You can make a trade to strengthen your team or add to it. But if you have a problem, a trade is not going to fix it."
