It was bad enough that Chris Pronger, after helping the Oilers come within a game of winning the Stanley Cup final a couple years back, needed just four sleeps to decide he wanted out of Edmonton.
Now it seems he won't be happy until those bridges have all been burned.
A recent interview between talk show host Jim Rome and Chris Pronger, Public Enemy #1 in Edmonton, reveals some slanderous venom directed towards the Alberta capital.
So much for mending fences.
When prodded by Rome to answer if the city's reaction to his well-documented departure left a sour taste in his mouth, Pronger took the bait.
"Um, yeah, there's obviously a few things that didn't sit well with me," he said. "For instance, taking the furniture that I had in my house and burning it and having a 'Burn Chris Pronger's Furniture Day', that didn't sit well with me very much. They burned my kid's crib and things like that."
Now, I am a longtime Rome listener. Love his attitude, love his sports knowledge, love how he isn't afraid to ask the tough questions.
But in his closing dialogue, Rome went a little over the top.
"But then to hear him say 'hey listen, it is what it is and I can't really change it and I can't fix it, but' ... certain things didn't sit well," said Rome. "To go into my house and get my furniture out and to burn it and to burn my kid's crib -- that's messed up. No matter how badly you think he wronged you or the team or whatever happened, to burn a guy's child's crib ... that's messed up."
The accusations aren't being taken too kindly by Edmonton Oiler fans, who hold Chris Pronger in the same light as, say, Theo Fleury and the entire population of Calgary.
After reading the above banter, you would assume someone broke into Pronger's house and burned his baby's crib, wouldn't you?
Especially since this isn't the first time Pronger has accused Edmonton fans of the furniture theft and crib burning.
You'd be wrong.
A local radio station toyed with the idea of buying the furniture from the rental house after Pronger left town and burning it on air.
As someone who has worked in the crazy, whacked world of radio, I've seen and been part of far worse. It's called ratings and The Book, as it is known, is your report card on how you stack up in the battle of the airwaves.
It also decides if you keep your job.
Only, as far as I can tell, this "Burn Chris Pronger's Furniture Day" never came to pass.
And if it did, it was meant as a joke by a couple of jocks looking to boost ratings. Nothing more.
Yet Pronger, with a little nudge from Rome, threw a little, uh, oil on the fire.
And you wonder why Pronger is persona non grata in Edmonton.