Why did pronger want out of edmonton

The contract was for the season to the season and was totally inflated due to the then Blues owners ignorance. However, that got washed out with the NHL season lockout. Chris wanted a multi-year contract, and the Blues said no. Not bad work, if you can find it. Where's the line to sign up for that deal! Further remember over the last 6 seasons with the Blues, Pronger missed games due to injuries.

As St. Chris only cares about himself and the money, nothing else. He use not to be this way before he got the big head. He was already getting this way before he married Lauren, who is the same way, and Chris has only become worse the last 5 years, married to her and her big money blue-blood St. Louis family. All his answers and advise only came from what was best for him, not for the rank and file players. I lost all respect for Chris when he said he would happily sit out two years if that's what it took to avoid a salary cap.

Many NHL players even blamed Chris for helping to cause the lockout. He, and some of the other big money contract players, were so resistant to a salary cap that it was really no surprise when the NHL canceled the season. Then, Pronger got worried not having a contract after the lockout and changed his tune. He also knew his NHL playing days in St. Louis were probably over. I remember several times Chris saying his deal with Edmonton was a very fast hurry up situation and that he didn't really understand all the details.

What uneducated hockey player does understand the details? Louis, and top in the U. I guarantee they did. Chris and Lauren Pronger knew exactly what they were doing, with some of the best talent and big money in St.

Louis backing Chris up in his contract negotiations with the Oilers. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper after the Edmonton deal was done, Chris Pronger said as to his new contract with the Edmonton Oilers "There could be worse things in life".

Then after Chris was in Edmonton, I saw another article in our St. Pronger went long-term on his contract, for the most money possible to lock in security for he and his very wealthy major St.

Louis blue-blood wife, and their 2 pups. Also, no teams were signing 5-year long term contracts last August for big money like the Oilers did with Pronger. Then the NHL had a good as to revenue, and Chris started realizing mid-season that he screwed himself when he got greedy on his long-term contract with the Oilers.

Salary matters in the NHL are now different and salary caps, both individual and team have increased, so now Pronger wants to dump his deal with the Oilers, using his wife for an excuse.

I hope you Oilers supporters up there wake up. I swear to God this Pronger trade fiasco is all staged with his agent. All you have to do is connect the dots and a blind hog could do it. Chris and Lauren have been trying to scrap his Edmonton contract since February I heard it here in St. Louis the 1st or 2nd week of February.

All the pro sports agents are using family problems and issues to scrap or alter negotiated players contracts. Has been in most pro sports for years. Louis high income suburb they never sold. Of course that is not true, Pronger after the finals asked to be traded, his team friendly contract and his leadership was gone.

In his place, a selection of trades for various players leading eventually to Patrick O'Sullivan. The Pronger trade led eventually to the desperate choice by Lowe to go after Dustin Penner, leaving a scorched earth for everyone. Rather than run down the trail of tears and hate that saw Pronger exit and malign the city, while the city aimed right back, the focus of this article is to ask a question: Would Oilers fans take him back?

It has been a discussion among the Oilers fan forums, and the consensus is that in a dream situation, they would consider taking back Pronger. I cannot think of any player who created more animosity who could still be considered so highly by these same fans. Yes, even with all the accusations, rumors and fallout, there is a group who want him back. One fan forum had its members saying that they would take him back in a "New York minute. No mistake that Pronger has been a world-class player, and if I had my selection of defensemen, he certainly would be a Top Reading the opinions of these fans, one wonders whether this remorse comes from the fiasco that has been the Oilers since the Stanley Cup run.

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