Chris Pronger on the 2002 Gold Medal Game | USA vs. Canada

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Comedy, Sports

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Chris Pronger is in studio! The Hockey Hall of Famer is with us to break down a classic USA vs. Canada rivalry game: The Gold Medal Game from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. We also get into winning the Stanley Cup, lessons he learned from a life in hockey, and his thoughts on the upcoming NHL playoffs.

(00:00) We kick things off. (00:58) Chris joins us on the couch. (43:31) We go back to February 2002. (52:38) We take a look at each star studded roster. (1:16:04) We dive into the game. (1:23:42) We score it.

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0:00.0	February 24th, 2002, East Center Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:06.8	After 50 long years, Team Canada has gold in their sights.
0:14.4	But Team USA is looking to protect home ice.
0:20.2	This is the 2002 gold medal game.
0:27.8	That's a thousand. Unbelievable. Oh, that's a catch.
0:32.9	Welcome to games with names. I'm Julian. They're Jack and Kyler. And we're on a mission to find the
0:38.2	greatest game of all time. And today we have a very special episode with Hall of Famer, Chris Pronger.
0:45.2	And if you haven't already, drop a like and subscribe to Games with Names. Let's go.
0:54.8	Games with Names of production of IHeart Radio.
0:57.9	How you like in media?
0:59.1	You've been in it for a while now.
1:00.4	Yeah, doing it.
1:01.3	It's good.
1:03.3	Yeah, it's, you know, you can't ask good questions.
1:06.7	Yeah.
1:07.4	I want to give these guys shit.
1:08.6	Like, don't ask that.
1:10.7	Because you hate you. Like, I remember watching your media shit. Got to lay the hammer down give these guys shit. Like, don't ask that. Because you hate you.
1:11.7	Like, I remember watching your media shit.
1:13.7	Gotta lay the hammer down on these guys.
1:16.3	Yeah, see, I'm in the media.
1:18.4	And I, I'm more, I do the studio show.
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