If you know for a fact that the keys are in the garage somewhere, then the metaphor doesn't work. Treliving does not know for a fact that the type of hockey Gulutzan and Peters coach is a winning recipe. He *thinks* that, but the evidence for that is unclear at best, and between Peters' 4 years of missing the playoffs, and the Glen Gulutzan two-year tire fire, "unclear" would be quite generous.
If you're trying to make a list of the most probable places you could've lost your keys, maybe it would make sense. You can have a hunch that they might be in the garage, and perhaps you do a quick check there first based on your intuition, but you should also check in more common sense places too, where evidence shows you'd have the best chance at success finding them (under seat cushions, on top of your nightstand, whatever). THEN you can turn the garage upside down.
You don't just ASSUME the garage is the only place they can be if you're not absolutely certain. I don't want a GM who doesn't even consider the possibility that his ideas could be wrong, especially when there is ample evidence to suggest that they don't work.
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