Souray talks about his time here on Dropping the Gloves podcast

Oilers talk starts at 29:26

• He had a lot going on in his personal life, and that contributed to Edmonton as a choice.
• Did not take the highest offer when he joined the Oilers.
• One of the other teams was an East coast team that had a lot of Russians and he didn’t like the team culture.
• MacT, on first meeting Sheldon, criticised him in front of the whole team for not being ready for training camp. Souray had just had surgery and wasn’t healthy for training camp. MacT put extra pressure on him which could have contributed to further injuries.
• Tom Renney told him to fight Iginla, and he broke his hand during the fight.
• After the surgery, he got a staph infection that was life threatening. While trying to recover, he’s being accused of milking an injury.
• He says he was done being an Oiler after one season, but wanted to try his best to enter season two playing well so he could get traded.
• He had a story about Pat Quinn back stabbing him. The two had a conversation, but Quinn then had a press conference and threw him under the bus.

I get the feeling that this a “he said, she said” type of situation, but the rumours about how bad the Oilers organization was really fits well with Sheldon’s version of events.