Hall of fame defenseman Chris Pronger (2/18/25)

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Who is Chris Pronger and why is he featured on Oilers Now?

Bob Stauffer 0:00

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Bob Stauffer 0:43

Yesterday was a holiday. He joined us. He was effusive in his praise of uh uh a former teammate of his and a guy that he played with and later coached, Hall of Fame defenseman Chris Pronger. He is our oil's now headliner today for Will Hawk beef jerky. Others can try to imitate, but nobody can duplicate the great flavor of Will Hawk beef jerky only available in Leducque. Welcome back to the show. A man who represented Canada four times in the Olympic Games, Chris Pronger. Hello, Chris, how you doing? How are you? Good. I was thinking if you had told me back in oh six that uh MACT would join me uh on a weekly basis on Mondays, then you would be on three straighters. On purpose nonetheless. What's that? On purpose.

Bob Stauffer 1:31

On purpose, yes, absolutely. Uh well I th let's get right to it. Uh MacT joked, uh and it's hard to believe because uh you know, I'm thinking back, you were on that ninety six World uh cup team. Uh the United States has not won a major best on best international tournament since then. And McTeag joked while as a couple of his buddies say that's because they They're really good. They're right there. Has it just been Canada just being a little bit better? Have they got a couple more breaks? Uh to this point, why do you and hey, I think we both think the US could easily win on Thursday. I don't think we want to see them win, but I think we we think they know they can win. Why do you think they haven't had more greater success best on best, uh, Chris?

Chris Pronger 2:20

Well, I think the moments where they've had to play Canada specifically two thousand two and two thousand ten Olympics that I were a part of. I I would say that they got us Too late in the process, meaning we had already figured out how we needed to play. We had lost in oh two we lost to Sweden. In twenty ten we lost to the US team in round robin. Ultimately playing them again in a rematch. Funny enough. Uh in in that Olympics and coming out on top. It's uh You know, I think for Canada Making subtle adjustments, figuring out line combination, matchups. uh chemistry And and Thursday I don't think I can say it enough. I'll having Kale McCarr back. Not only what he can do with the puck And offensively is production.

Chris Pronger 3:14

But more importantly his defensive play, how he slots in with Devin Fayes as as the top unit. And that puts everybody else in the proper slot. You then get more seeing Pareco on the second pairing. And then you have Sandheim and Show he has a third pairing. And they're just falling into proper slots with these out of the lineup. Everybody gets bounced around a little bit. Yeah. And it gets a little bit of a mishmash.

Bob Stauffer 3:42

Uh, Chris, uh, you know, I grew up playing against Todd Ewan, okay, who by the way was a really good player when I grew up playing against him. I mean he went to the Western League, he fought.

What memories does Chris share about playing for Canada in the 1996 World Cup?

Bob Stauffer 3:53

You know he's the only guy ever to have dropped Bob Probert, flat out dropped him, and people think of him but he could play, God rest his soul. I have an appreciation for a part of the game that he was quite proficient at. Uh Um I I'm not a bleeding heart here. I mean I was in Montreal at that game and I I gotta be honest with you, I love the start to the game. And the Kachuks were part of it. What what what were you thinking as you were watching, you know, those three fights of the first nine seconds?

Chris Pronger 4:24

Well, it's a great way to kick start the livery again.