When 6-foot-9 squares off with 6-foot-7, you know it's a big fight. Such was the case when the Bruins' Zdeno Chara (255 pounds) squared off with the Penguins' Jamie Oleksiak (also 255 pounds) in a ...

Chara played five seasons for the Islanders (1997-01 and 2021-22) after the Islanders drafted the 6’9” defenseman in the third round of the 1996 NHL Draft (56th overall). The Trencin, Slovakia native ...

BOSTON -- Normally, when a middle-aged athlete calls it quits, he steps to the podium for his retirement press conference and explains that he just can't play the way he's used to playing, and that it ...

Bruins legend Zdeno Chara is feeling at home in his new role with the Black and Gold, one he says will force him to look at the game from the “other side” while he draws back on lessons from his ...

On Monday, the Boston Bruins announced that Zdeno Chara's No. 33 will take its rightful place in the T.D. Garden Rafters on Jan. 15. Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) on X Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) on X ...

BOSTON -- Zdeno Chara is rejoining the Boston Bruins, though the 47-year-old will not be locking down the blue line with a Spoked-B on his chest. Chances are Chara could still take the ice for the ...

Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara broke his jaw in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, according to reports.Jeremy Rutherford, the St. Louis Blues beat writer for The Athletic, tweeted that "a source ...

Zdeno Chara, the hulking defenseman who captained the Boston Bruins to their sixth Stanley Cup, announced Tuesday he is retiring from the NHL. The 45-year-old finishes his career with 209 goals and ...

BOSTON -- Zdeno Chara and Rod Brind'Amour overlapped in the NHL as players for 12 seasons, and Brind'Amour spent most of that time resenting the 6-foot-9 defenseman. "Not too many fond memories, ...

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 ...

Zdeno Chara wanted to talk. I wanted to listen. The infrastructure for the interview, however, promised all kinds of problems. On the morning of Jan. 19, 2018, Chara was in Montreal. I was northbound ...

An awkward, lanky prospect who transformed himself into hockey's biggest, baddest defenseman, the 41-year-old Bruins captain is staying relevant amid an NHL youth movement. Whenever future generations ...