Zdeno Chara Anchors Bruins’ Makeshift Defense With Huge Effort in Game 1 Win Over Rangers
BOSTON — Zdeno Chara walked to the podium for postgame news conference Thursday night with almost a little bit of a jump in his step. You would certainly understand if the big fella was lumbering a little, though.
That’s because the Bruins captain had just played an astounding 38 minutes and two seconds of hockey in Boston’s 3-2 overtime win over the New York Rangers in Game...
Zdeno Chara Praises Play of Torey Krug, Young Bruins Defensemen After Game 1 Win (Video)
The Bruins’ blue line looked much greener than usual Thursday night.
After being struck by injury late in last week’s first-round series, Boston started three rookie defensemen — Dougie Hamilton, Matt Bartkowski and Torey Krug — for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Rangers.
It was the first time since 1985 that the B’s started three first-year blueliners...
5 keys for success for the Rangers against the Bruins
Rick Nash will have his hands full with Zdeno Chara
A slew of injuries to Boston blueliners have some convinced the Rangers will roll through their second round matchup, but we should know by now that nothing comes easy for New York. Still, the Blueshirts have a good shot at advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals if they follow these keys to victory.
Mitigate Boston’s advantage...
Video: Bruins/Leafs Game 7 postgame interviews
Zdeno Chara, Milan Lucic, and Claude Julien talk after the Bruins thrilling comeback OT Game 7 win.
Bruins’ Character Prevails As B’s Shock Maple Leafs in Thrilling Game 7 Overtime Win
BOSTON — Claude Julien stood in front of the media following Game 6, and spoke about his team was a “Jekyll and Hyde hockey club,” saying he hoped the good Bruins would show up in Game 7.
For a good 50 minutes or so, hoping was not good enough, and neither were the Bruins. The B’s found themselves improbably down 4-1 to the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 7 of the first round...
Zdeno Chara’s Late Goal One of Few Moments for Bruins Fans to Cheer in Best Images From Game 5 (Photos)
It took more than 50 minutes for the Bruins to give their fans something to cheer about, but when Zdeno Chara beat Toronto goalie James Reimer with a wrister midway through the third period, the TD Garden crowd allowed itself a moment of hope.
Unfortunately for the black and gold-clad fans, Chara’s goal was all the Bruins could muster in a 2-1 loss to the Maple Leafs in Game 5...
Patrice Bergeron on faceoffs:‘If you don’t cheat, you’re not trying’
Toronto Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlyle thinks Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron, who finished the 2013 season as the NHL’s top-ranked faceoff man, is getting a little help from the officials in the faceoff circle. “Faceoffs are always a big part of any hockey game,” Carlyle said after the Maple Leafs’ 5-2 loss to the Bruins in Game 3 on Monday.
Capitals 3, Bruins 2, OT
Zdeno Chara and the Boston Bruins need to win the last game of the NHL regular season to claim the Northeast Division title after wasting a two-goal lead and losing 3-2 to the Washington Capitals on Saturday night when Eric Fehr scored on a power play 3:23 into overtime.
The Bruins will host the Ottawa Senators on Sunday, in a game rescheduled because of the Boston Marathon bombings...
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Zdeno Chara scores on his own goal against the Flyers
Not a very proud moment for the Boston Bruins as defenseman Zdeno Chara scores on his own net. It was also a bad display of goaltending by Bruins goaltender Anton Khudobin. The Flyers scored two goals in seven seconds during the second period to take a 3-1 lead into the third period.
Was Chara right to go after Emelin?
Much is being made of Zdeno Chara's decision last night to pummel Canadien's defenseman Alexei Emelin after his cross-check cheap shot to the ribs of Tyler Seguin. Chara wasted no time following the play in finding Emelin, decking him, and then delivering a sequence of punches that would make even the toughest guys quiver (some of those punches were thrown while Emelin was...
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