Hall of Famer Chris Pronger (3/18/25)
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Hey, it's Bob Stoffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. We're in the Play Alberta broadcast booth, Bob Stoffer with you. Oilers Now, Ebmonton, and Utah. Tonight, Royal Pizza Pizza Pass and so much more for many of the list of their locations. Visit RoyalPizza.ca. The Stoffer recommendation at Royal Pizza is the Mediterranean. Chicken. If you don't like me, blame Royal Pizza. Because when our next guest was in Ebonton back in 05-06, they were the title sponsor on the show that I used to have. Royal Pizza's been an advertiser of mine for 28 seasons. Royal Pizza's still making it great. Just before we go to Chris Pronger, I gotta do this.
I asked uh the listeners, shoot me a number on uh Evan Bouchard on either a four or or eight year deal. Tyler, who is a big Bouche yard supporter, eighty million over eight years for Bouche. There's not enough savings to come from him only getting a four year deal. His arbitration case means he's eight million minimum on a one year deal. Let's get 'em done as long as possible. Learn the lesson from not getting nurse done long term after his first bridge deal and how much more expensive he was two years later. And Tyler is a guy that gets a little bit exasperated with uh some of the fans out there that are constantly criticizing and picking at Bouchard's game. Well our next guest was a Hall of Fame NHL player.
He played completely different than Bouchard. Evan does not have the surliness nor the bite uh that this guy had, but uh and this guy was an elite uh two way defender during his time. It is Chris Pronger. He's a Reuters now headliner for Willhawk Beef Jerky. Others can try to imitate But nobody could duplicate the great flavor of Will Hawk beef jerky only available in Leduc. Hello, Chris. How are you? Great. How you doing, Bob? Good. So here's the deal. So I saw you you comment on a couple of the younger defenders with the Philadelphia Flyers. You talked a bit about defensemen. So here's where I come from. And you and me had this conversation way back when, uh when you're an order. I I was the S I D at the University of Alberta.
That was a program really launched by Claire Drake. And Claire had a simple but very effective mantra. When it was dealing with players. Treat people with respect and dignity.
What is the listener poll on Evan Bouchard’s contract length and value?
And when you do that, you will engender passion and support from them, and they won't want to fail you. If you treat people well instead of playing games with them, and to talking about players, instead of playing games and playing control things, if you treat them like men from the beginning, you set clear and distinctive standards for how you want the team. And he also used to say you gotta understand that defensemen take more time than forwards. Do you agree or disagree with that sentiment? What do you think?
No, a hundred percent. Defensemen do take they they take In to to reach your peak or your prime, typically we're taking the special players, the uh You know. Top end Elite guys, you know, the Hughes, the Macars, the Um the Lidstrums, the Bobby Ohrs, uh, you know, F Ray Bork. The guys that have been at the top of the game forever. Uh or seemingly feels that way. Um you know. At some point they went through their own learning curve, albeit much earlier than most. Uh, but by the time a defenseman's in his sixth year Full sixth year by the way, not proportions of it, not Um you know, in and out, up and down, a full year of experience in the National Hockey League. For a defenseman it takes five or six years to get to that level.
Wow. And then and then once they're there, they're in their prime. And that can last You know, anywhere from six to ten years, depending upon their age.
Chris Pronger joining us. You played eleven hundred and sixty seven games in the NHL had almost seven hundred points. Your second year with Hartford, I I I remember you were the second overall pick. There was a guy named Dig, he was a big deal back in the day. But Your second year didn't go great in Hartford, did it that year?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:16
2
What is the listener poll on Evan Bouchard’s contract length and value?
2:16–9:55
3
How does Chris Pronger describe the typical development timeline for defensemen?
9:55–15:23
4
What lessons did Pronger learn from his early struggles in the NHL?
15:23–15:51