The story behind Zdeno Chara's departure from Bytown to Beantown

The story behind Zdeno Chara's departure from Bytown to Beantown

Zdeno Chara is one that got away from the Ottawa Senators.

And, when he chose the Boston Bruins by signing a five-year, $37.5 million US deal that paid him an average annual value of $7.5 million, the man bringing him to Beantown was sitting in the bowels of the building then known as the Corel Centre, working on helping the Senators sign minor-league players.

You can’t make this stuff up because it’s one of those stories that will go down in the annals of franchise history.

On Monday night, when Chara is installed into the Hockey Hall of Fame, some place in Sweden, where former Boston general manager Peter Chiarelli is on a scouting trip for the St. Louis Blues, the induction of the legendary defenceman will bring back fond me

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