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This is a really cool idea! Always love your ideas for posts lol, you seem to put a lot more thought into interesting hypothetical scenarios or analysis of situations than a lot of people on this site and I just want to say I appreciate the effort, always a great read.
With that said, I think Ottawa should do everything in their power to trade up and get Guenther lol. There's actually a chance he slips too, I could see Buffalo being interested in Soderstrom (as a partner for Power, Dahlin-Jokihharju / Power-Soderstrom is insane, and they already have Quinn/Tuch/Peterka for RWers) or NJ being interested in Soderstrom too (right now their best D prospects are all lefties, and while Hamilton is around forever, Severson might not be a long term guy so Soderstrom would fit nicely with Luke Hughes or Ty Smith). Regardless, if we don't get Guenther and Keller is the other top 3 pick, I think Ottawa snags Soderstrom just because he's higher end than any of our current RD prospects, and looks significantly better than Hayton right now. Chabot-Zub / Sanderson-Soderstrom is nuts. And it would also make JBD or Thomson expendable as trade bait for Boeser or something.