CANES MAKE BIG ACQUISITION
Carolina
With so many questions with the club's poor offensive performance and lack of obvious leadership, the Canes went back to the well with one of their favourite trading partners, the Nashville Predators and acquired former Hurricane Chris Pronger.
Pronger, 32, has been one of the more obvious blue line super stars over the past several seasons and has always been referred to as one of the best shut down defensemen in the league.
"We wanted to make some noise and right now, we have a few deals on the back burner just waiting to see where it leads us," said head coach Joel Quenneville, who was instrumental in the acquisition of Pronger and was stated as actually making the request himself for the 6 foot 6 blueliner. "A guy like Pronger does not end up available often and when he became available, we needed to jump right away. This team needed a guy with his presence. I hope he grabs some of these pansies and shakes them till they play to their potential."
Pronger has not been off to a very good offensive start but the Canes are banking on his presence on both the PK and power play will help inspire the team to bigger and better things.
"I know that the team was looking for a left handed defenseman upgrade but I never dreamed it would be Pronger," said Adrian Aucoin. "This guy will show up and dominate and I know guys like Dany and Jarome are probably happy we never have to play against this monster anymore."
The Canes will practice but it is unlikely they will have the services of Pronger until the team takes on Nashville on Monday.
With so many questions with the club's poor offensive performance and lack of obvious leadership, the Canes went back to the well with one of their favourite trading partners, the Nashville Predators and acquired former Hurricane Chris Pronger.
Pronger, 32, has been one of the more obvious blue line super stars over the past several seasons and has always been referred to as one of the best shut down defensemen in the league.
"We wanted to make some noise and right now, we have a few deals on the back burner just waiting to see where it leads us," said head coach Joel Quenneville, who was instrumental in the acquisition of Pronger and was stated as actually making the request himself for the 6 foot 6 blueliner. "A guy like Pronger does not end up available often and when he became available, we needed to jump right away. This team needed a guy with his presence. I hope he grabs some of these pansies and shakes them till they play to their potential."
Pronger has not been off to a very good offensive start but the Canes are banking on his presence on both the PK and power play will help inspire the team to bigger and better things.
"I know that the team was looking for a left handed defenseman upgrade but I never dreamed it would be Pronger," said Adrian Aucoin. "This guy will show up and dominate and I know guys like Dany and Jarome are probably happy we never have to play against this monster anymore."
The Canes will practice but it is unlikely they will have the services of Pronger until the team takes on Nashville on Monday.
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