The St. Louis Blues get some things right and some things wrong. Some fans will say they have gotten more wrong than right since they have yet to win a championship.
Nevertheless, they have been correct in one particular thing. They have avoided this new trend of putting former players in prominent front office roles.
We have seen it all across sports, with varying degrees of success. To me, the most curious one is hiring players as managers in baseball almost the day after they retire. But there have been plenty of success stories there. Elsewhere, it is more mixed.