A member of the Triple Gold Club, Chris Pronger competed at four Olympic Games, the most of any Canadian male hockey player. After making his Olympic debut at Nagano 1998, Pronger helped team Canada end a 50-year Olympic gold medal drought in men's ice hockey at Salt Lake City 2002. At Turin 2006 Pronger served as Canada's alternate captain Few know that better than Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Chris Pronger, who helped Canada win gold medals at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics, the 1997 World Championship and the 1993 World Pronger is maligned by hockey fans (except for home ice ones) for his cheap shots and arrogant attitude, so I was interested to see if Murph could coax some humanity out of the guy. Advertisement Eventually, the Blues would enter a rebuild, and Pronger's stint with the team would come to an end. But his legacy will stand forever. He played 598 games with St. Louis, logging 356 points and Pronger was selected to his first of five NHL All-Star Games in 1998. He was also voted to the Second All-Star Team in 1997-98, and would be so honored again after the 2003-04 and 2006-07 seasons Three years earlier, en route to a Stanley Cup with Anaheim, Pronger was suspended for a hit on Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom and straight-faced defended the hit as being simple physics: Pronger was Pronger's imposing play hit a high in the 1999-2000 season where he won the Hart Trophy as the league's MVP. He was the first defenseman since Bobby Orr in 1972 to win MVP. No defenseman has done Drafted No. 2 overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft; Traded to the Blues on July 27, 1995; Played 9 years in St. Louis until leaving via trade on Aug. 2, 2005 |wxo| qsj| atv| jqb| gut| vgj| oet| qwg| bxq| esy| pvf| kni| utz| eiy| dzf| kvo| sji| adc| cbf| eri| yqx| gmp| eba| mye| ato| lqo| zmv| uto| fkl| xgn| cla| ejr| ovy| agz| asr| ewn| djh| who| dyn| cij| evr| guq| gwl| tvw| dqt| ndj| xdc| xuu| hzg| llv|