Jerkshire was interviewed on SDP the other day and said essentially the same thing (the Pacioretty vs. Subban stuff was management's way of making them both look bad). He rather hilariously, but diplomatically, implied that Pacioretty is too lacking in depth to convincingly lie to the media if he really hated someone and was warring with them behind scenes.

Reading this article reminds me of that. If Therrien had not said something close to that, he'd be all over the media having a meltdown about people making stuff up about him. Instead, not only do we have naive Pacioretty saying he asked him about it and he's convinced his comments were misreported. But it was possible enough that he said it that Pacioretty asked him about it.