Midway through the —09 season , Prust would be sidelined with injury after suffering a broken jaw due to being elbowed by Cam Janssen of the St. Louis Blues. In the —11 season , Prust, a fourth-line utility player and occasional enforcer, was one of only seven NHL players to score at least ten goals as well as engage in at least ten fights.
After the start of the lockout -shortened —13 season , Prust scored his first goal as a Canadien against Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils on January 27, During the Eastern Conference Finals against his former team, the New York Rangers, Prust was suspended for two games following a first period hit on forward Derek Stepan in Game 3.
Stepan suffered a broken jaw on the play and subsequently missed Game 4. Due to his ankle injury, teams were unwilling to give Prust a contract, with concerns continuing to be raised over his foot speed and ankle itself. Although he did not formally announce his retirement from professional hockey, Prust signalled the conclusion of his year playing career in joining his former major junior club, the London Knights , as a coach on November 29, On June 4, , via Instagram , Prust announced that he had begun working at the London, Ontario based financial guidance firm Navigator Financial.
Prust has an uncle who was a Broadway actor. In Prust's charitable foundation launched a campaign to raise money for families of sick children to find accommodations in London during the COVID pandemic in Ontario. Prust was criticized after, in an August Twitter exchange related to vaccines, he replied to a woman with a post declaring that he hoped she would be subjected to forced prostitution. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.
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