I can't see how the deflectors did anything at all to help with the initial impact which would appear to be across the face of the intakes. Surely if the wire had hit the canopy and slid up the deflectors, it would not have then managed to impact the front face of the intakes and would have caused more damage to the fibre glass structure underneath the intakes?
I guess it depends on the number of wires.
The lower cockipt damage looks co-incident with 'backing out' from said wires.