you're right, it's entirely impossible that a gm who was never comfortable in front of the camera, routinely lied to and misled the media, and was dragged through the dirt by the press (and by fans) after a stint as general manager that is by and large considered an epic failure... was making up BS excuses in an exit interview where he was trying to defend the job that he did.
it's very plausible.
on the flip side, he could only be telling us half the story. what if, like leafman said, he proposed dealing antropov and kaberle to minnesota for their first round pick and pm bouchard?
we don't know.
all we have to go on is his record as gm. it wasn't good. and it makes it more likely that, had he rebuilt the team (or attempted to) that also would have been a failure.
because he was a bad gm.
