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Post by kjc2 on Sept 16, 2022 16:51:48 GMT -5
I caught the third period of the game . We were down 4-3 after 2 periods but scored two in the third for a 5-4 win. Beecher and Lysell looked very good. I didn’t see a whole lot though so I was looking for those two.
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 16, 2022 17:30:37 GMT -5
I was listening to some Sens bloggers today and they expected their Sens rookies to go 3-0 over the weekend. I guess we ruined that for them😂
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 17, 2022 7:27:19 GMT -5
Also a kid named Luke Toporowski looked good yesterday. Looks like he’s signed an AHL contract in Providence. He’s 21 and scored 23 points in 16 playoff games for the Kamloops Blazers last season. The game looked very slow to me yesterday so it was difficult to tell who had NHL upside in the group but I got to say he got my attention.
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 17, 2022 15:53:13 GMT -5
Also a kid named Luke Toporowski looked good yesterday. Looks like he’s signed an AHL contract in Providence. He’s 21 and scored 23 points in 16 playoff games for the Kamloops Blazers last season. The game looked very slow to me yesterday so it was difficult to tell who had NHL upside in the group but I got to say he got my attention. He likes to score!! www.eliteprospects.com/player/315967/luke-toporowski
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 17, 2022 20:46:15 GMT -5
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 17, 2022 20:56:12 GMT -5
Bruins lose to Pittsburgh 6-4 in Game 2 of Prospects game..Sry, I got score from a Pens site but they never mentioned who scored for Bruins..I know Curtis Hall had one..
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Post by KSJ08 on Sept 18, 2022 9:38:13 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 18, 2022 12:23:08 GMT -5
Sounds like there were more than a few dust ups and we spent a ton more time in the box than they did… surprise surprise!
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 19, 2022 20:07:56 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 7:15:44 GMT -5
I honestly would be ok with Subban over the other 2.
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 7:44:14 GMT -5
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Post by crafar01 on Sept 20, 2022 8:37:17 GMT -5
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Post by fforr on Sept 20, 2022 9:07:55 GMT -5
Even though it was inevitable and perfectly fitting that it should happen as such, I have a tear in my eye. Such a class man he is.
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 9:44:33 GMT -5
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Post by crafar01 on Sept 20, 2022 9:48:09 GMT -5
Damn...well DS, now what? I wouldn't have called that one.
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 10:00:46 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 10:01:28 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 10:03:32 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 10:05:37 GMT -5
Zdeno Chara, captain of the Bruins’ lone Stanley Cup-winning team over the last 50 years, announced his retirement on Tuesday, closing out an NHL career that spanned four decades, 24 seasons, 1,680 regular-season games, and three trips to the Stanley Cup Finals with Boston, including the triumph in 2011.
Chara, 45, made the announcement in an Instagram post Tuesday morning, in which he revealed he was returning to TD Garden to sign a one-day contract with the Bruins.
“After 25 seasons of professional hockey 1,680 NHL regular season games, 200 Stanley Cup Playoff games, and hundreds of international games I am proud to announce my decision to retire from the National Hockey League,“ Chara wrote. “In doing so, I am honored to return to TD Garden today to sign a one-day contract with the Boston Bruins and officially finish my career with the team that has meant so much to me and my family.”
Chara figures to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer when he becomes eligible in three years. He wraps up his career ranked No. 7 for most games played in league history, and with a scoring line of 208 goals, 471 assists, and 680 points. He left the Bruins after the 2019-2020 season and played the 2020-21 season with the Washington Capitals and the 2021-22 season with the New York Islanders.
Chara, who has homes in Boston, Florida, and Slovakia, has long said he has no specific plans, hockey-related or otherwise, upon retiring as a player.
Fluent in several languages beyond Slovak and English, and with an expansive, detailed mind for the game, Chara would be a prime candidate for any NHL club’s front office, be it for a role in player development or in an executive capacity such as general manager or team president.
Chara also would be an asset to the NHL office in any number of roles, particularly those dealing with issues related to European players.
When asked in recent years about his interest in coaching, Chara has been lukewarm on the subject, typically referencing the time away from home that coaching demands. He has said he cares not to sacrifice time away from his wife Tatiana and their three children, particularly after spending what is now more than half his lifetime traveling at times upward of nine months a year for the job.
“I just love the game, everything about it,” Chara said countless times in his latter years with the Bruins, when asked about his post-career plans. “I especially love the competing, all the work it takes, on and off the ice …how it tests you.”
Upon his departure, and ever since, Chara and the Bruins front office maintained a respectful relationship, noting they understood one another’s views about his career path.
The Bruins saw Chara continuing here only in a reserve role, had he opted to stay for the abbreviated 2021 season. Chara felt he could contribute more than that, and proved it in Washington, despite the fact that the Bruins rubbed out the Capitals, four games to one, in the opening round of the playoffs.
It’s that mutual respect, and absence of finger pointing, that could lead to Chara one day, and perhaps soon, rejoining the club in a development or front office capacity.
Chara’s No. 33 sweater undoubtedly is headed for the Garden rafters, to hang there in perpetuity, a testament to his long service, distinguished play, sportsmanship, strength, and courage.
He left his hometown of Trencin in the fall of 1996 with a single suitcase and a pair of battered skates, forged a legacy, and won over a generation of Bruins fans.
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 10:28:19 GMT -5
Rag doll
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 10:44:57 GMT -5
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Post by crafar01 on Sept 20, 2022 11:33:21 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with anything other than it was on the same page as the Chara vids and made me chuckle.
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Post by madmarx on Sept 20, 2022 12:09:31 GMT -5
Thank You Z
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 12:50:29 GMT -5
From an article in a local Karlstad newspaper: Zdeno Chara om äventyret i Karlstad: ”Galen atmosfär”
For one season, the SHL was the world's best league. Stars such as Peter Forsberg, Dan Boyle, Marian Hossa and Daniel Alfredsson brightened the everyday for the hockey fanatic. That season is what this is supposed to be about. We start on November 2, 2004. Then Zdeno Chara was recruited to Färjestad. The rest is a piece of Värmland sports history. - I enjoyed myself very much in Karlstad, I miss the city and the fans, he says to NWT. This is how it happened when the lockout FBK was built 205 centimeters, 117 kilograms - it was a giant who joined Färjestad in November 2004. Håkan Loob together with Radek Hamr and Jörgen Jönsson had lured the Slovakian fullback Zdeno Chara to Karlstad.
- There was a lot of uncertainty then, nobody knew where it would go. But we looked around a bit to see who was available and got very good advice on Chara. Radek Hamr was a very big reason why it went in lockstep, says Håkan Loob, then sports manager in Färjestad.
For Chara, it was about having a plan B if the NHL didn't start again.
- We played the World Cup in late summer. I remember there was a lot of uncertainty about what the season would become. I broke my thumb at the end of the tournament and had to rest for a few weeks. During that time I talked to my agent about what we would do if the league didn't start.
Färjestad appeared as a good alternative:
- My agent contacted Håkan Loob and resolved a transfer.
- We spoke with his agent Matt Keator. They were very involved, they knew perhaps more than anyone else about what was about to happen, says Loob.
Keator and Loob agreed, 205 centimeters Chara arrived in Karlstad.
Why just Färjestad?
- I knew Radek Hamr from before, we played together in Prague, and Jörgen Jönsson I played with in the New York Islanders. It helped to have those guys. At the same time, there were a lot of people from the NHL in Sweden, which made the league very attractive.
Hamr became a way in Zdeno Chara was born in Trencin in western Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia, in 1977. In 1995 he joined Sparta Prague, a club that then housed NHL returnee Radek Hamr.
- He became a mentor to me. He helped me a lot and got me ready to go over to North America and the NHL. I am indebted to him for those years.
Unsurprisingly, both backs were also the best poles in Färjestad during the lockout season.
- He was the one I spent by far the most time with.
Are you still in contact with anyone from the team?
- Radek, we are still very close to each other and hear from each other regularly.
Once installed in Karlstad, the huge Slovak quickly became a fan favorite. The debut took place away against Mora on November 4. A match Färjestad won 2–0 and Chara had to leave early – the first but above all not the last time the 33-year-old was sent off in the SHL.
In total, he got 132 suspension minutes in 33 games.
Did it feel like the judges had something against you?
- It was difficult, especially in the beginning. At the same time, the referees were in a difficult position, they were used to a certain type of assessment and all of a sudden there were 60, 70 guys from North America with a completely different playing style, he says. and adds:
- But it was okay, I got used to it.
As a spectator, I remember that the only ten-year-old Fredrik Erlandsson was outraged by how harshly Färjestad's two NHL defenders, Zdeno Chara and Sheldon Souray, were judged. The ten-year-old self was not alone in that opinion.
- The fact that I was expelled didn't bother me very much. It was worse for my teammates who saw how in some games I went out even though I did nothing wrong.
A well-filled penalty box, FBK's two NHL defenders incurred 408 penalty bench minutes during the season. An average of just over four minutes per game. The relegation league that year was somewhat in the horse's way. Emil Kåberg won it in superior style, 255 minutes. Andreas Jämtin was second at 155, Johnny Oduya third with 139. Last year Joonas Rask won the same league with 98 minutes. It had been enough for fourteenth place during the lockout year.
- It was physically in a completely different way in the NHL at that time, it was an adjustment for many, Chara gives in response to the remarkable statistics
Silver with FBK When the headlines were about something other than thrown gloves, hard - sometimes ugly play, ejections and one with the fourth, a lot of hockey was played. 46 games and 33 points were scraped together in the purple-yellow jersey.
For those who don't remember, this was the beginning of the end of Färjestad's final streak. Since 2000/01 they had played in the final, so also this year.
Gothenburg horseshow had taken possession of Scandinavium, the final series between Färjestad and Frölunda had to be played in Frölundaborg. A hall that harbored anything but beautiful feelings towards Chara and Souray.
- The atmosphere was absolutely crazy! The entire finals series was a fantastic experience. The fans were ferocious, passionate and very supportive of their own teams, recalls the lead actor.
Just like the series between the teams two years before, Frölunda won. - It was a shame that we didn't win.
The comeback that never happened The final loss was the last match in Färjestad. In October 2005, the NHL was up and running again, a new one with rules that would lead to another lockout just seven years later.
Many supporters hoped to relive another season with a star-studded league, but it stopped in a half-hearted gentleman's agreement.
Did you have contact with Färjestad about a comeback?
- Yes, I really wanted to come back. But unfortunately there was a limit in the league, as I understood it. It was a real shame, I enjoyed myself there last time, I miss the city and the fans, he says.
The NHL career really took off after the season in Sweden. In 2008/09 he was named the NHL's best defender. With that, he is unique in the Färjestad context as the only player with first-team matches for FBK who won something at the NHL awards.
Two years later, the highest ever lift of the Stanley Cup trophy was made after a Charalett Boston Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks of the Sedins.
And despite the fact that 16 years have passed and that the NHL has gone from a league dominated by hundred-kilo lumps to a technical and fast league, Chara has remained, and that in one of the league's best teams.
An explanation lies in physics:
- I have always loved training, I have been in and around gyms all my life.
Father Zdenek wrestled for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Olympics.
- It has helped to have him, I was always with him when he trained and started training hard already at a young age. I started loved the feeling of being a starter and in good shape, it has allowed me to stay in the league.
The contract with Boston expired this year. An uncertain time was in the making as the club is in the middle of a generational change.
When asked if we would see him in the Bruins again, he replied:
- We'll see, there's a lot up in the air right now.
On December 30, it was announced that the Washington Capitals and Chara agreed to a one-year contract worth $795,000.
- Boston has informed me that they plan to move forward with their young and talented players. I respect their decision. Unfortunately, my time as the proud captain of the Bruins is over, he writes in an emotional post on his Instagram.
How and when the hockey saga ends for the 43-year-old giant remains to be seen
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 20, 2022 13:23:21 GMT -5
Maybe Chara and his one day contract is actually the PTA player Sweens was referring too, if not maybe Yandle but with his horrid +/- with Philly last season, I doubt he can help..
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Post by madmarx on Sept 20, 2022 16:04:11 GMT -5
Subban will be on Sportsnet 🤬🤬🤬
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Post by kjc2 on Sept 20, 2022 17:51:50 GMT -5
The boys on Overdrive were giving Chara a lot of love tonight. One thing they asked which I never considered before, was Chara the best UFA signing of all time? I’m hard pressed to come up with a better one.
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Post by KSJ08 on Sept 20, 2022 17:57:40 GMT -5
I was hoping he & Bruins would do this! Only right that he retires as a Bruin from the NHL!!!!
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Post by SeaBass on Sept 20, 2022 18:49:06 GMT -5
The boys on Overdrive were giving Chara a lot of love tonight. One thing they asked which I never considered before, was Chara the best UFA signing of all time? I’m hard pressed to come up with a better one. I can’t think of a better one.
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Post by nfld77 on Sept 20, 2022 21:57:03 GMT -5
The boys on Overdrive were giving Chara a lot of love tonight. One thing they asked which I never considered before, was Chara the best UFA signing of all time? I’m hard pressed to come up with a better one. I can’t think of a better one. You mean all time for Bruins or??
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