Not sure we can hang Krahn on Button either, I think that was part of the agreement with Dallas that he couldn't be at the team's table and involved until after the first round. Now did he make the pick any way? That could be argued.
I see being a general manager as a process that has a decent percentage of just blind luck. I'm not attributing every bad decision to bad luck, or good decisions to good luck - I think their feel and system is the greatest barometer, but a good decision can go horribly wrong, and a bad one great with how players develop.
To me it's the feeling I get.
I absolutely hate it when the guy in charge of my team is a person I have little faith in. You just feel lost. Risebrough had that when I was younger. Button was a sexy hire, but had a lot of things go wrong making you feel he was over his head. Jay Feaster just didn't seem to have a plan and was flailing.
I thank god Burke came in and creating a shiv between ownership and the hockey ops group. And I'm glad he hired Treliving. He's made mistakes, he's done a lot of things right, but overall I trust his process driven method to get better and better if you let him see it through. As a face of the franchise he exudes professionalism and confidence. I worry less about knee jerk, fan pleasing moves that set the team back for decades.
But that doesn't mean I think he's perfect. None of them have been.
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