Good luck to Klimchuk. Always seemed like a good guy who just couldn't get things to work out. If I'm not mistaken, there's been a serious problem with his development from day one including a plethora of injuries that threw him off track many times over (think Bennett's start, but worse). (I think I recall at least 1-2 injuries per season for the first few years of his draft year). I have a funny story, where I gave his girlfriend pointers on how to play Pokemon go at Memorial Park once upon a time.
Spiel...
Feaster might have had serious problems while he was here, but it was still a step in the right direction. Same with Sutter. Treliving's mandate has been like a Hartley vs Gully. A perfect medium between the two.
Both Sutter and Feaster were known as guys who would get the short end of the stick in value for trades.
Sutter focused on big good old Canadian boys with good personalities (perhaps as a realization that he missed out on Weber, but also because the scouting team was so small and poor). Sutter at least realized the drafting problem and pushed to expand and improve the scouting department which was like doubled from something ridiculously thin of 2-3 guys to maybe half a dozen guys under him?
Feaster focused on skill, but not personality. Which is why we ran into the Erixon and Baertschi fiascos. Weisbrod might have been an ass who let ego screw things up, but with his help, we did push into scouting NCAA and more. We also drafted a ton of projects under him (ie: Gaudreau, Janko etc.) I think scouting doubled again under him. But development was super rocky under him and most of the guys we nabbed perhaps failed due to the issues we had on the farms. But he did also have issues so bad that ownership stepped in to "Meddle" to make sure stupid things didn't happen.
Burke's drafts were a step in the wrong direction with the guys we drafted... Ignore it. But MAJOR props to him helping Tre to make sure ownership stopped meddling in the basic GM stuff.
Treliving has always drafted BPA (I still argue the first draft under his tenure was a Burke draft...), but a good combo of skill and attitude. Last I checked, we are at 16 scouts and that's with Don Maloney moving up to VP hockey ops too. Treliving has also gone as far as to really revamp the farm system, development tools on the farm (ie: facilities, travel, supper guys like McGrattan, issues with farm playing different systems than the NHL club etc.). So IMO, the future looks bright for guys we draft now vs guys we send to the farm having higher likelihood of failing.