The St. Louis Blues have made some good trades during Doug Armstrong’s tenure. They’ve also made some bad ones.
I’m not sure whether you would call the trade of David Perron for Magnus Paajarvi a bad trade, but it was not a good one. In a bit of irony, Perron ended up returning to the Blues and supplanting Paajarvi as a regular in the lineup.
You cannot view the trade in those simplest terms though. Perron needed a change of scenery to understand that changes needed to be made in his game.
Though he continued to be an offensive force in Edmonton, continuing to focus only on offense left him and the team empty at the end of the season.