Chris Pronger

Christopher Robert Pronger (/ˈprɒŋɡər/ or /ˈprɒŋər/; born October 10, 1974) is a Canadian
former professional ice hockey defenceman and 2015 inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame. He
Chris Pronger
won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player for the 1999–2000 season. He Hockey Hall of Fame, 2015
later was an advisor to the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Originally selected second overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, Pronger
played for Hartford, the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers and Anaheim Ducks before being
traded to the Philadelphia Flyers before the 2009–10 season. He was captain of the Blues, Ducks
and Flyers. He appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals with three different teams (Edmonton,
Anaheim and Philadelphia), winning the Cup with the Ducks in 2007. Pronger won the Hart
Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player for the 1999–2000 season, becoming the
first defenceman to win the award since Bobby Orr in 1971–72. A mainstay on Team Canada,
Pronger won Olympic gold medals at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics and is a member of the
Triple Gold Club. In 2017, he was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.[1]

Pronger's playing career ended in November 2011 due to post-concussion syndrome related to
three separate hits suffered during his career; he also suffers from vision impairment due to being Pronger with Canada in 2010
hit in the eye(s) by the blade of another player's stick.[2] In October 2014, Pronger signed a
Born October 10, 1974
contract with the NHL to assist its Player Safety Division.[3]
Dryden, Ontario, Canada

Pronger was suspended eight times during his NHL career.[4] Height 6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
Weight 220 lb (100 kg; 15 st 10 lb)
The St. Louis Blues retired Pronger's No. 44 on January 17, 2022.[5]
Position Defence
Shot Left

Playing career Played for Hartford Whalers

St. Louis Blues
Edmonton Oilers
Anaheim Ducks
Early years Philadelphia Flyers
Pronger was born in Dryden, Ontario, to Jim and Eila Pronger, an immigrant from Pori, Finland. National team Canada
Pronger is Finnish Canadian.[6] Before entering the junior ranks in Ontario, he grew up playing
NHL draft 2nd overall, 1993
minor hockey in his hometown. As a 15-year-old, he was identified through the Ontario U-17 Hartford Whalers
program and signed with the Stratford Cullitons Jr. B (OHA) club for the 1990–91 season. One of
Playing career 1993–2011
his defence partners in Stratford was future NHLer Greg de Vries.
Medal record
In May 1991, Pronger indicated he was going to join his older brother Sean at Bowling Green Representing Canada
State University to play in the NCAA instead of opting to play in the Ontario Hockey League Ice hockey
(OHL). Regardless of his pre-draft indications, the Peterborough Petes selected Pronger in the
Olympic Games
sixth round in the OHL Priority Selection. Contrary to his initial intentions, Pronger reported to
2002 Salt Lake City
Peterborough.
2010 Vancouver
After two stand-out seasons with Peterborough, and because of being highly regarded for his rare World Championships
combination of imposing size, speed, offensive skill (particularly on the power play) and 1997 Finland
physicality, Pronger was selected second overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1993 NHL Entry World Junior Championships
Draft, behind Alexandre Daigle, who made the infamous statement, "I'm glad I got drafted first, 1993 Sweden
because no one remembers number two."[7]

Hartford Whalers
Pronger made his debut in the 1993–94 NHL season, playing 81 games for the Whalers and earning a spot on the NHL All-Rookie Team. However,
he was one of multiple Whalers that season with off-ice issues, being one of six players arrested for a barroom brawl in Buffalo in late March (the
brawl also involved a Whalers assistant coach), and then being arrested for drunk driving in Ohio three days after his rookie season ended, leading
some to consider Pronger impatient and immature.[8] On his rookie season, then-teammate Kelly Chase said, "You could see [Pronger] had talent,
but it was a ho-hum thing. He really didn't have any direction. He was under a lot of pressure and just wasn't ready for the responsibility. Of course
that team wasn't exactly overloaded with players who knew how to win" (the Whalers finished second-last in the Eastern Conference that season).[9]
After a second season in Hartford, on July 27, 1995, he was traded to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for star forward Brendan Shanahan.
St. Louis Blues
In the early years of his St. Louis career, Pronger played under coach and general manager Mike Keenan, who insisted he improve his conditioning
and reduce his mistakes. Late in his first season in St. Louis, the acquisition of Wayne Gretzky took pressure off Pronger which, combined with
Keenan's practices, allowed Pronger to concentrate on improving his defensive play.[9]

In his third season with St. Louis and first as team captain, Pronger was again named to the All-Star team. That year during the 1998 Stanley Cup
playoffs, he had a cardiac arrest caused by commotio cordis when he was hit in the chest with a puck in a game against the Detroit Red
Wings.[10][11] Prior to this, he played for the Canadian Olympic team in Nagano. In 1999–2000, Pronger recorded a career-high 62 points and a +52
rating. His efforts won him the Norris and Hart trophies at the end of the season. Pronger beat Art Ross winner Jaromír Jágr by just one point in
Hart Trophy voting, which was, at the time, the smallest margin of victory in the history of the award. (Two years later, Jarome Iginla and José
Théodore tied in overall voting; Théodore won with more first-place votes.)[12] Pronger was also named to the first All-Star team.

Pronger scored 47 points the next season, but appeared in only 51 games due to injury problems. In February 2002, he won a gold medal with the
Team Canada at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. That same year in the NHL, he had another fine season and played in the All-Star Game
once again. But injuries became a problem again in 2002–03, limiting him to just five games played, during which time Al MacInnis replaced him
as captain. Pronger bounced back with another quality season in 2003–04. Following the 2004–05 NHL lockout and the imposition of an NHL
salary cap, the Blues traded Pronger to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for defencemen Eric Brewer, Jeff Woywitka and Doug Lynch. While the
Blues needed to reduce team salaries to make it easier to sell the team, the Oilers were able to sign Pronger to a five-year, $31.25 million contract.

Edmonton Oilers
Pronger was selected to play for Team Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics, marking his third consecutive Olympic Games. The Oilers went to the
Stanley Cup Finals that same year. On June 5, 2006, in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Carolina Hurricanes, Pronger became the first
player in NHL history to score a penalty shot goal in a Stanley Cup Finals game. The Oilers lost in Game 7, with Pronger scoring a team-high 21
points (5 goals and 16 assists) in 24 playoff games, as well as a team-leading plus/minus rating of +10 during the playoffs.

On June 23, 2006, Pronger requested a trade through his agent, Pat Morris, from the Edmonton Oilers. Edmonton GM Kevin Lowe said the request
was for personal reasons,[13] while media outlets[14][15] reported that Pronger's wife, Lauren, was not happy in Edmonton. The controversy
surrounding Pronger's trade request has led many to describe him as "Public Enemy No. 1" in Edmonton.[16][17][18] On July 3, Pronger was traded
to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Joffrey Lupul, defensive prospect Ladislav Šmíd, Anaheim's 2007 first-round draft pick (traded to
the Phoenix Coyotes, which selected Nick Ross), a conditional first-round draft pick (contingent on the Ducks reaching the Stanley Cup Finals
within the next three seasons, which they did; the pick was used to select Jordan Eberle),[19] and Anaheim's 2008 second-round draft pick (later
traded to the New York Islanders).

Anaheim Ducks
In 2007, Pronger played an important role for the Ducks run as they won the Stanley Cup. It was also
Pronger's second-straight finals appearance. During the Conference Finals, Pronger was suspended for one
game for a check on Detroit Red Wings winger Tomas Holmström.[20] He later criticized the Canadian
media's coverage of the incident.[21] In the final round, Pronger was suspended for one game for elbowing
Ottawa Senators winger Dean McAmmond in the head during Game 3.[22] With the Stanley Cup victory, he
became a member of the Triple Gold Club.

On September 28, 2007, Pronger was named captain of the Ducks, replacing Scott Niedermayer, who sat out
the beginning of the 2007–08 season.[18][23] Although Niedermayer returned to the lineup later in the season,
Pronger remained captain until the start of next season, when Niedermayer was renamed captain. Pronger
retained a role as alternate captain.

On March 12, 2008, Pronger was involved in an incident with Vancouver's Ryan Kesler. Pronger, after being Chris Pronger with the Anaheim
tangled up with Kesler behind the Anaheim blue line, stomped unnecessarily on Kesler's leg. Kesler was not Ducks in 2007
injured and upon initial review the NHL did not suspend Pronger. However, upon new video evidence which
provided a better angle, the NHL again reviewed the incident and issued Pronger an eight-game suspension.
The suspension was criticized by some as insufficient, as Chris Simon had received a 30-game suspension for a stomp earlier that season, with
some suggesting the NHL gave preferential treatment towards Pronger as an NHL MVP and an "ambassador for the game".[24] He returned to the
ice April 6 against the Phoenix Coyotes in Anaheim's last regular-season game of the year.[25]

The 2008–09 season was quite successful for Pronger, who played his 1,000th career game on February 20, 2009. The Ducks would rally late in the
season to jump into eighth place of the Western Conference. They dispatched the Presidents' Trophy-winning San Jose Sharks in six games before
falling to the Detroit Red Wings in seven games. Pronger had 2 goals and 8 assists in 13 playoff games.

Philadelphia Flyers
On June 27, 2009, Pronger along with forward Ryan Dingle was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Joffrey Lupul (earlier traded to
Edmonton for Pronger in 2006), defenceman Luca Sbisa, two first-round draft picks and a conditional third-round draft pick. Ten days later,
Pronger signed a seven-year contract extension.[26] Nearly a month after signing, the NHL announced they had launched an investigation on
Pronger's contract to determine whether it circumvented the NHL collective bargaining agreement's salary cap. Because the contract was front-
loaded, with annual salaries of just $525,000 in the final two years and was set to expire when Pronger turned 42, the investigation was launched
with the focus on the potential for negotiations between Pronger and the Flyers to retire before the contract expired.[27] However, as Pronger's
contract took effect after his 35th birthday, under the terms of the current collective bargaining agreement, his over-35 contract cannot be deleted
from the Flyers' cap space unless he is placed on long-term injured reserve, and even then it would come back on the team's cap space during the
off-season.

On December 30, 2009, Pronger was selected to play for Team Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics in
Vancouver. He served as one of the team's alternate captains, along with Sidney Crosby and Jarome
Iginla.[28] The team won the gold medal that year. After playing in his 25th Olympic game for Canada on
February 28, 2010, Pronger became Canada's all-time leader in Olympic games played.

In the NHL regular season, the Flyers qualified for the 2010 playoffs on the last day of the season with a
shootout win against the New York Rangers. A playoff run marked by an upset of the New Jersey Devils, a
historic comeback against the Boston Bruins from down three games to none in the series and a five-game
win over the Montreal Canadiens culminated in the Flyers playing the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2010
Stanley Cup Finals. Although the Flyers lost the series four games to two, Pronger had a strong playoff
performance and led a team that traded for him to the Finals for the third time in a row. Conversely, no team
that traded Pronger away qualified for the playoffs the following year.

Following the playoffs, Pronger underwent arthroscopic knee surgery.[29] He missed the first two games of
Pronger with the Philadelphia Flyers the 2010–11 season. Various other injuries would limit Pronger to just 50 games, marking the first time that
in 2010 he missed significant time since the 2002–03 season (when he missed 77 games). On September 16, 2011,
Pronger was named the 18th captain in Flyers history, replacing Mike Richards (who was traded to the Los
Angeles Kings just prior to the 2011 NHL Entry Draft). On Oct. 24, 2011, Maple Leafs center Mikhail
Grabovski caught Pronger's right eye with his stick while following through on a shot. He would miss the next six games with a serious eye injury
and concussion. Multiple hits resulting in post-concussion syndrome (the last being a collision with Martin Hanzal) limited Pronger to 13 games for
the season in mid-December, placing Pronger's playing career in jeopardy. He also continued to have problems in his right eye.[30]

With a resumption of his playing career looking unlikely, Pronger stepped down as team captain and was succeeded by Claude Giroux on January
15, 2013.[31] However, Pronger did not officially retire from the NHL because his contract ran through to the 2016–17 season. Under the terms of
the NHL collective bargaining agreement, because he was at least 35 years old before the contract began, the Flyers were on the hook for the
$4.9 million cost against the salary cap each season, though they were able to receive relief by placing Pronger on long-term injured reserve at the
start of each season. Had Pronger formally retired, the Flyers would lose that ability and his contract amount would have counted in full against the
cap and he would not receive the remainder of the amounts owed to him under the contract ($12.15 million at the start of the 2013–14 season). [32]
While no longer playing, Pronger remained with the Flyers organization helping to scout and interview prospects.[30]

On June 27, 2015, the Philadelphia Flyers traded Pronger's playing rights (alongside Nicklas Grossmann) to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for
Sam Gagner and a conditional draft pick. The deal was made to the benefit of salary cap implications to each club, as Pronger never played for
Arizona. Three days later, on June 30, 2015, he was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame; because the Hall only counts games played as its criteria
for the minimum waiting period, Pronger was eligible for induction even though he was still technically an active player, as he had not played a
game in three full seasons at the time of his induction.[33]

Post-playing career
After his contract expired following the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, on June 22, Pronger was able to officially retire and he signed with the Florida
Panthers to become the organization's senior advisor of hockey operations.[34]

Personal life
Pronger married his wife Lauren in 1999, and together the couple have three children.[35][36] He lived in Irvine, California, while playing for the
Anaheim Ducks.[37] Pronger now resides in Chesterfield, Missouri where he runs a luxury travel agency alongside his wife.[38]

Pronger appeared on the cover of NHL 2000 and NHL Hitz 2003.

His older brother is former NHL player Sean Pronger.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1990–91 Stratford Cullitons MWJHL 48 15 37 52 132 — — — — —
1991–92 Peterborough Petes OHL 63 17 45 62 90 10 1 8 9 28
 Pronger in 2007 after winning the
Stanley Cup with the Anaheim
Ducks

1992–93 Peterborough Petes OHL 61 15 62 77 108 21 15 25 40 51

1993–94 Hartford Whalers NHL 81 5 25 30 113 — — — — —
1994–95 Hartford Whalers NHL 43 5 9 14 54 — — — — —
1995–96 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 7 18 25 110 13 1 5 6 16
1996–97 St. Louis Blues NHL 79 11 24 35 143 6 1 1 2 22
1997–98 St. Louis Blues NHL 81 9 27 36 180 10 1 9 10 26
1998–99 St. Louis Blues NHL 67 13 33 46 113 13 1 4 5 28
1999–2000 St. Louis Blues NHL 79 14 48 62 92 7 3 4 7 32
2000–01 St. Louis Blues NHL 51 8 39 47 75 15 1 7 8 32
2001–02 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 7 40 47 120 9 1 7 8 24
2002–03 St. Louis Blues NHL 5 1 3 4 10 7 1 3 4 14
2003–04 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 14 40 54 88 5 0 1 1 16
2005–06 Edmonton Oilers NHL 80 12 44 56 74 24 5 16 21 26
2006–07 Anaheim Ducks NHL 66 13 46 59 69 19 3 12 15 26
2007–08 Anaheim Ducks NHL 72 12 31 43 128 6 2 3 5 12
2008–09 Anaheim Ducks NHL 82 11 37 48 88 13 2 8 10 12
2009–10 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 82 10 45 55 79 23 4 14 18 36
2010–11 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 50 4 21 25 44 3 0 1 1 4
2011–12 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 13 1 11 12 10 — — — — —
NHL totals 1,167 157 541 698 1,590 173 26 95 121 326

International
Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM
1993 Canada WJC 7 1 3 4 6
1997 Canada WC 9 0 2 2 4
1998 Canada OG 4th 6 0 0 0 4
2002 Canada OG 6 0 1 1 2
2006 Canada OG 7th 6 1 2 3 16
2010 Canada OG 7 0 5 5 2
Junior totals 7 1 3 4 6
Senior totals 34 1 10 11 36

All-Star Games
Year Location G A Pts
1999 Tampa Bay 0 2 2
2000 Toronto 0 0 0
2001 Colorado — — —
2002 Los Angeles 0 1 1
2004 Minnesota 0 0 0
2008 Atlanta 0 0 0
All-Star totals 0 3 3
Awards and achievements

Award Year
CHL/OHL

Max Kaminsky Trophy 1993

Plus-Minus Award 1993

First All-Star team 1993

CHL Defenceman of the Year 1993

NHL
Stanley Cup Champion 2007

James Norris Memorial Trophy 2000

Hart Memorial Trophy 2000

Plus-Minus Award 1998, 2000

All-Star Game 1999, 2000, 2001 (voted in as starter but injured), 2002, 2004, 2008
All-Rookie Team 1994

First All-Star team 2000

Second All-Star team 1998, 2004, 2007

Hockey Hall of Fame 2015 [33]

International
IIHF All-Time Canada Team 2020

Suspensions
Oct. 29, 1995: with St. Louis — four games, slashing (Washington's Pat Peake)
Dec. 17, 1998: with St. Louis — four games, high stick (Phoenix's Jeremy Roenick)
Oct. 11, 2000: with St. Louis — one game, leaving bench for altercation (Los Angeles' Kelly Buchberger)
April 3, 2002: with St. Louis — two games, cross-check (Dallas' Brenden Morrow)
March 14, 2004: with St. Louis — one game, kicking (Calgary's Ville Nieminen)
May 15, 2007: with Anaheim — one playoff game, blow to the head (Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom)
June 3, 2007: with Anaheim — one playoff game, blow to the head (Ottawa's Dean McAmmond)
March 12, 2008: with Anaheim — eight games, stomping on the leg (Vancouver's Ryan Kesler)

Transactions
June 26, 1993 – Drafted by the Hartford Whalers in the first round, second overall.
July 27, 1995 – Traded to the St. Louis Blues for Brendan Shanahan.
August 3, 2005 – Traded to the Edmonton Oilers for Eric Brewer, Jeff Woywitka and Doug Lynch.
July 3, 2006 – Traded to the Anaheim Ducks for Joffrey Lupul, Ladislav Šmíd, a first round pick in 2007 (Riley Nash), a 2008
second round pick (traded to New York Islanders, used to select Travis Hamonic) and a conditional first round pick for one of the
2008/2009/2010 drafts (conditions were met in 2008; pick was used to selected Jordan Eberle).
June 26, 2009 – Traded to the Philadelphia Flyers along with Ryan Dingle for Joffrey Lupul, Luca Sbisa and Philadelphia's first-
round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft (later traded to Columbus, which selected John Moore) and the 2010 NHL Entry Draft
(used to select Emerson Etem), and a conditional pick for either the 2010 NHL Entry Draft or the 2011 NHL Entry Draft (conditions
were not satisfied).
June 27, 2015 – Traded to the Arizona Coyotes along with Nicklas Grossmann for Sam Gagner and a conditional pick in either the
2016 or 2017 NHL Entry Draft.

See also
List of NHL players with 1,000 games played

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External links
Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com (https://www.nhl.com/player/8459424), or Eliteprospects.com (http://w
ww.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=8538&lang=en), or Hockey-Reference.com (https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/
p/prongch01.html), or Legends of Hockey (https://www.hhof.com/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=P201504),
or The Internet Hockey Database (http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=4397)
"Captain Crunch's Time Has Come" (https://archive.today/20130101041035/http://www.canoe.ca/SlamNaganoHockeyMenArchive/
feb1_nhoc.html)[usurped], The Toronto Sun, February 1, 1998.
*NOTE: Al MacInnis served as interim captain for nearly the entire 2002–03 NHL season, while Pronger was injured and out of the line-up. Pronger resigned the captaincy
at the start of the 2003–04 NHL season, in favour of MacInnis.

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