There were boos when Chris Pronger first arrived in St. Louis, the product of fans liking Brendan Shanahan, the player the Blues traded away to get him, more than they liked him. There was the time he took a puck to the chest and his heart stopped on the ice. There were the concussions that ended his career prematurely and finally, there was the bylaw change that made him eligible for the Hockey Hall of Fame before he had officially retired from the game.
It’s been no ordinary path to enshrinement for Pronger.
“I think nothing I’ve done has been the easy way,” Pronger said Monday after he was announced as part of the Hall of Fame’s 2015 induction class.