Scrivens didn't actually reference the "clique" group, but Andrew Ference did roughly 3 months after joining the Oil. What Scrivens said was that he backed up Klefbom's comments, and when commenting on Yak said he was a good kid and a hard worker.
Ference said he had never seen such a divided room, that there wasn't that "family" type team concept like the one he had just left in Boston. He also said he'd never seen so many guys more concerned with what was happening after practice than what was going on at practice.
By no means would I say Hall was an outright *******, but players were either in his circle or they weren't, and it certainly didn't include everyone. To me it was evident in some Oilers TV special segments like "how well do you know you're teammate." The Schultz/Hall/Ebs/Nuge crowd all new plenty about each other, but when it came to Yak they didn't know anything about him, and gave their answers in a bit of a snide, "I couldn't care less" manner.
It's all pretty minor stuff, but I think Yak is a kid who thrives on confidence, and he didn't experience much of it being on the outside looking in.
