13 goals, 25 pts, said to play hard. Sounds like potential to help scoring at low cost, although most of these depth forwards really don't end up providing much. Anyone remember the last Vladislav we traded for? (Nagy, who did nothing for us in the stretch run) Looked it up, he scored 4 goals in 25 games, not as bad as I thought, but he generally looked lost as I recall from the eye test.
In the end, he added what we wanted. I doubt Kessel or others at bigger price would have really been anymore useful, although it would fun to be able to replay the season in an alternate universe to prove it.