03-28-2018, 08:09 AM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Bruins sign Chara to one year extension ($5 mil + $1.75 mil bonuses)
https://www.nhl.com/bruins/news/brui...on/c-297409196
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Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney announced today, March 28, that the team has signed defenseman Zdeno Chara to a one-year contract extension through the 2018-19 season worth $5 million, plus an additional $1.75 million in performance-based incentives.
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03-28-2018, 08:12 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Hard to argue with that contract seeing he's still able to play 23 minutes a game. Nice that they only have to commit for one season as you never know when a guy this age will see his game totally fall off.
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03-28-2018, 08:20 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Hell of a bounce back season for him. Very impressive at his age.
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03-28-2018, 09:00 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Has any player played more games than Chara in the last 20 years? The guy has played over 1400 nhl games! Unreal
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03-28-2018, 09:11 AM
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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My favourite Chara story is this brief quote from Players Tribune article The Trap by Chris Collins:
"Then I walked in on the first day for our strength tests and witnessed the life-changing sight of 6-foot-9 Zdeno Chara doing 33 perfect pull-ups in a banana hammock speedo. I’m pretty sure he could’ve done 50. He jumped down from the bar, turned and walked away like it was nothing. Holy ####, I realized. This is serious business."
Chara is an absolute unit.
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03-28-2018, 09:36 AM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Salt Water Cowboy #10
Has any player played more games than Chara in the last 20 years? The guy has played over 1400 nhl games! Unreal
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Since Marleau's rookie year, the most amount of games he's missed in a season has been 5. He started the same season as Chara and has played 1569 games.
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03-28-2018, 10:22 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Since Marleau's rookie year, the most amount of games he's missed in a season has been 5. He started the same season as Chara and has played 1569 games.
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Holy crap! Two beauties.
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03-28-2018, 10:36 AM
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Franchise Player
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Has there been a better UFA contract in the last 20 years?
The few others that come to mind:
Hossa to Chi
Niedermayer to Ana
Belfour to Dal (holy crap, that might have been more than 20 years now...)
None of their teams win cups without them, but I think everyone but Boston still has a really strong chance if you replaced the UFA with another 'pretty good' player. I don't think Boston has much chance of winning with anyone else not named Chara or Lidstrom.
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03-28-2018, 10:55 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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I don't think you can count the Hossa contract seeing the rash shenanigans because he wasn't going to play for the reduced rate at the end and the Hawks badly needed the league to go along with the rash thing or they would have incurred big cap penalties.
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03-28-2018, 10:59 AM
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#10
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Franchise Player
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Still can't believe Ottawa kept Redden.
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03-28-2018, 11:10 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Still convinced the guy plays at 80% all the time for fear of committing manslaughter on the ice.
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03-28-2018, 02:08 PM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't think you can count the Hossa contract seeing the rash shenanigans because he wasn't going to play for the reduced rate at the end and the Hawks badly needed the league to go along with the rash thing or they would have incurred big cap penalties.
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I'd probably agree if they'd only won 1 cup, but 3 cups and a full decade of being a top contender is worth that cost IMO.
Hossa is probably the most easily replaceable guy on my little list though (even though his contributions are often underrated). Looking at that UFA class, they could have gotten someone like Gaborik, Gionta, Samuelsson, or even Joel Ward and probably still raised the cup (maybe not 3 times though).
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03-28-2018, 02:16 PM
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Franchise Player
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NM my memory was wrong
Good for Chara
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Last edited by dino7c; 03-28-2018 at 02:22 PM.
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03-28-2018, 02:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Salt Water Cowboy #10
Has any player played more games than Chara in the last 20 years? The guy has played over 1400 nhl games! Unreal
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Marleau, Thornton, Iginla, and Cullen.
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03-28-2018, 07:37 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach
Still convinced the guy plays at 80% all the time for fear of committing manslaughter on the ice.
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I watched him in Prince George when he played there and you could tell he was holding back a lot. Probably a good thing, but at the time, I wondered if it would affect his development to not be playing with 100% all the time. Obviously he did alright of course.
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03-28-2018, 08:53 PM
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CalgaryFan1988
Still can't believe Ottawa kept Redden.
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A Chara - Karlsson pairing would have been insane. With Bishop between the pipes...
And we think the Flames have a history of boneheaded moves.
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03-28-2018, 10:04 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Regina
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Still LOL that Ottawa chose Redden over him
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