You have comments from Linden that giving talented people autonomy and trust to do their job is important, and semi-cryptic quotes from Linden that you can't rely on "someone who sees enough games to make themselves dangerous" / "sees players once or twice". From that you've somehow decided that Benning wanted Glass and Linden overruled Benning in Judd's favor. I can see the threads of how you got there, but I think you're overlooking things.
So I just watched the replay of the Canucks picks for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 draft. TBH, there's very little difference in Benning's mannerisms - he looks like a day old fish in a cheap suit year after year. I'd actually be hard pressed to find someone who looks more uncomfortable in a situation. What IS different, however is who doesn't go to the podium in 2017. John ****ing Weisbrod. He's sitting there POUTING with his arms crossed having a hissy fit while everyone goes up to make the pick (
2017). EVERY OTHER YEAR he goes up to make the pick. (see
2018,
2019). 2017 is different not because of Benning, but because of Weisbrod.
So yeah. If I were a betting man - with Linden's comments and Weisbrod's body language - Weisbrod was pushing very hard for Glass. Weisbrod saw Glass dominate a single game against Switzerland (
prev post, and remember what Linden said about a manager seeing one or two games and being dangerous) and is absolutely sulking during the draft as the rest of the team goes up to make the pick. I think Linden probably did encourage Benning to trust his scouts instead of his AGM, but I'm pretty sure Weisbrod is the root.