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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Pronger the hockey player, pronger the elbow swinger or Pronger the guy who stomps on people's legs with his skates on?
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A cleaner Pronger, then. But his skating, the way he snaps the puck through the neutral zone, his size, the fact that he wears a double digit number for the Blues, he just resembles Pronger in so many ways.
I've never seen a player will teams through the playoffs quite like Chris Pronger. In the span of 5 years, he dragged three teams to the finals, included one coached by Craig MacTavish, and one backstopped by the tandem of Michael Leighton and Brian Boucher. He came back down from 0-3 with Boucher.
We lament what might have been if Darryl had managed to swing Joe Thornton to play with Iggy, but imagine if he'd been able to get Pronger - Kevin Lowe managed it, so I don't think it's as preposterous as it sounds. Even at the cost of either Reggie or Leopold, I think the combo of prime Iggy, prime Pronger and prime Kipper wins a Stanley cup by 2008.