While it’s generally great for the Toronto Maple Leafs, their fans and the city, the best part is that he’s proving the detractors wrong. He’s not just having a good season for a rookie. He’s having one of the best seasons a professional sports general manager has ever had. Everything he touches turns to gold.
He doesn’t get any credit, as it seems old-school types are loathe to admit they weren’t just wrong, but they were “the sun rotates around the earth” and “This Vanilla Ice kid is the future of music” wrong.
Now normally, I would not care about proving detractors wrong – people have bad takes all the time, so who cares?