He wasn't responsible. The whole team was responsible.
But on the flipside, some give him all the glory when the team won the Voyageurs Cup in '09. You do that, people are going to pin the blame on you when things don't go well.
I'm still waiting for examples from NA sports when a team renegotiated a raise for a player mid-term. And please no examples of when a player is entering the last year of his contract. That's a different scenario altogether.Or that contracts are never renegotiated mid-term.