Certainly an element of truth to this. In hindsight, the worst decision that chevy ever made was to trade with Vegas for 1 more year of a declining Enstrom. Could have drafted Suzuki and had a damn good 1-2 centre punch right now.
Looking back at the protection list today, it likely came down to moving down 11 spots to ensure that Armia and Copp (and Perreault) weren't going to become casualties of Enstrom's NMC. Given how Copp turned out, that probably was a good decision - and let's not forget what we got out of Armia and Perreault (and Enstrom in 17-18!).
Of course, the optics of the trade are hideous in hindsight, with Vegas hitting on Suzuki and the Jets screwing Vesalainen over, but at least we salvaged value by not losing a good young asset in Copp (or Armia, who knows who would have gone to Vegas otherwise).
I'd say Chevy's worst move was pretty clearly the Hayes trade, because acquiring rentals when the team sucks is the equivalent of incinerating capital. Fortunately, the list of his truly bad moves is quite short.