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On the biggest difference between New Jersey and Edmonton, Hall said, “The pressure is a lot different. In Edmonton it’s just like a fish bowl. We couldn’t even go to the mall by the end there. And for here it’s being able to walk around and we get fans and we get media, but it’s nothing. I could go ten games goal less, and in Edmonton there would be reporters every day asking you about it.”

Asked by the podcast’s host, who goes by the moniker of Rear Admiral, if there was too much pressure on him and the other young forwards in Edmonton, Hall said that the Oilers didn’t have the right mix of players. “You got to build from the back end out. As a forward, you can only have such an impact on the game. I will say we could have used some better defencemen.”

“Hundred per cent,” Whitney agreed. “It was the worst d-corps.”

“And that’s not to chirp Whits,” Hall said. “I mean Whits was playing on half an ankle in his last year…The forwards, myself, we didn’t do a good enough job but we didn’t have the veteran back end presence that we needed, especially when we had such young forwards.”

Whitney on Devan Dubnyk. “We had Dubnyk, who at the time would be like he is now one game and then be like an East Coast League goalie the next game. He was young and he didn’t have the confidence.”

Hall said the media in Edmonton was always fair to him and defended him well, even when he returned to the city. Montreal and Toronto writers can be cut throat, he said, but he said Edmonton was a step below that. “Even if there was criticism, I always thought it was fair. I don’t think you can say that in some markets.”