EDMONTON — Chris ... and Scott Niedermayer. For me, coming into that room as a 23-year-old, it was just eyes wide open, mouth shut, be a sponge and just soak it all up,” recalled Pronger.

Chris Pronger spent 20 years in the NHL and became a measuring stick for other defensemen. He won the Hart Trophy as league MVP in 2000, the first defenseman to since Bobby Orr almost three ...