Boston Bruins Chara

While he remains a crucial piece of the bruins success as an anchor on boston s top pairing chara s minutes have decreased a bit.

Boston bruins chara. On friday the boston bruins captain attended a black lives matter protest in boston. Three years later chara won the norris trophy solidifying his status among the nhl s. Zdeno chára slovak pronunciation. First thing is first and let me be clear.

He won the james norris memorial trophy while playing for the bruins in the 2008 09 season standing at 6 feet 9 inches 2 057 m tall chára is the tallest person ever to play in the nhl. Unlike some of the other players facing real uncertainty like torey krug however there isn t a lot of mystery about what s going to happen with the 43 year old defenseman. Born 18 march 1977 is a slovak professional ice hockey defenceman and captain for the boston bruins of the national hockey league nhl. Chara took a puck to the.

Bruce cassidy s confidence in boston bruins captain zdeno chara certainly hasn t wavered. Why would any team want to sit their captain especially when he is such a warrior like zdeno chara. Bruins captain zdeno chara is among the handful of bruins players facing down the end of his contract once the 2020 stanley cup playoffs are over this fall. Chara clearly was moved by the protest as he followed with a long statement saturday on instagram condemning racism and the murder of george floyd.

In boston s 3 2 game 1 victory over the lightning chara played. Of course it s never a decision the boston bruins want to make. I stand with the black community. The boston bruins captain zdeno chara is surely a future hall of famer but keeping him in the line up right now may actually be detrimental to the team.

The bruins quickly signed chara to a five year contract on july 1 2006 and named him captain that october.