Pronger still hopes to return
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Pronger still hopes to return
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren strongly refuted a Facebook rumor that defenseman Chris Pronger was retiring and moving to St. Louis with his family.
Holmgren said on Thursday night that Pronger, who missed most of the season with post-concussion syndrome, is hoping to get better and return to action next season. He is still experiencing headaches, the GM said.
“There’s no truth to him retiring,” Holmgren said.
Because of an illness in his wife’s family, the Prongers are apparently going to spend some time in St. Louis, Holmgren said.
Fans on Twitter and Facebook reported seeing a huge moving van in front of Pronger's Haddonfield house on Wednesday.
If Pronger retired, the Flyers would not get any relief from his $4.9 million cap hit.
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As awesome as it was to watch Pronger play in Philly, I hope he retires. After 6 months, it may already be too late. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. No need to risk further damage.— drog- Please scott-stevens-is-god, your handle namesake is perhaps cheapshot emeritus in the history of the NHL. Out to injure his NHLPA mates every shift. I watched that Ducks team carefully on that Cup run and Scott N. made a huge difference, but so did Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry who I saw play in Hartford for the Portland Pirates of the AHL during that season, wondering why they weren't in Anaheim yet. I remember Pronger looking lost on the ice in Hartford for the Whalers early in his career and no one was as shocked as I that he became a nasty capable and strong elite defender. He administered nasty borderline hits after Hartford, regularly. He is close to a 1st ballot HOFer. I only took the shot in this post at Stevens that I did because I watched him from the start of his career in Washington and he played every shift mean and on the edge of dirty, like Brad McCrimmon with rabies. And Beast,rip, finished every check his whole career.— RI_Flyrs_Guy
- He is done.— Poppys
- Yea I think pronger is gonna try to come back. Idk if it`s a good idea but I think he will try to play again. Also lets not forget what happened to Crosby, and his year and a half long lay off, and how he was able to comeback and play. I could see Pronger doing the same thing, maybe in January of next year or something. This is not Keith Premeau situation bc pronger shut it down after he got his major concussion much like Crosby did. Premeau kept playing and made his problem worse. I think Pronger will be back mid way through next year.— Dangles 28
- Pronger done...face it.— dogman5
While I'd love to see him back its pretty obvious what the out come is going to be. The answer is in his facial expressions. The guy is lucky to have both eyes right now why risk another season at his age?
If the Flyers brass had brain one in there heads, they'd work a deal out with Chris to mentor the young defensive core and maybe teach them a thing or two since they need a lot of work.
