Zdeno Chára
Zdeno Chára ( born March 18, 1977 in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak ice hockey player who plays in July 2006 with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, with which the defender in the season 2010/11 won the Stanley Cup.
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Career
Chára began his career in his birthplace at HC Dukla Trenčín. His father Zdeněk represented at the Summer Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 Czechoslovakia as a wrestler.
During the NHL Entry Draft 1996, he was pulled in the third round at 56th overall position of the New York Islanders and moved in the same year in the Canadian junior Western Hockey League with the Prince George Cougars. In the next two years he alternated between farm team and the Islanders. In 2001, he started the season still at the Slovakian first division club HC Dukla Trenčín, but switched after a few games to the Ottawa Senators, the (Jason Spezza ) for Alexei Yashin had brought him from the Islanders, together with a draft law.
During the lockout Chára plays for Swedish club Färjestad BK. He then returned to the Sens. In the summer of 2006, he was with Ottawa, which had offered him $ 30 million for a contract extension, not a few. He signed a contract with the Boston Bruins. Here he was already determined in his first season for the team captain.
The Slovakian international is the largest player in the National Hockey League with 2.06 m. He is also ambassador athletes of development aid organization Right to Play. In the Skills Competition as part of the NHL All-Star Game 2009, the Slovak presented in competition at the hardest slap shot to a new NHL record. He promoted the disc with a speed of 105.4 mph ( 169.5 km / h ) into the goal and surpassed the old record of Al Iafrate. At the NHL All-Star Game 2011, he improved his record to 105.9 mph ( 170.43 km / h ) and cracked the first time the 170 km / h mark. At the NHL All-Star Game in 2012, he shot 108.8 mph ( 175.1 km / h ) and set another milestone on.
On 17 January 2011, he scored his first hat-trick in the game against the Carolina Hurricanes, making it the fourth defender in the history of the Bruins to have managed.
Due to the NHL lockout played Chára October to December 2012 for the HC Lev Prague in the Kontinental Hockey League and completed it 25 KHL games for HC Lev.
Awards and achievements
- 2009 James Norris Memorial Trophy
- 2009 NHL First All -Star Team
- 2011 NHL All-Star Game
- 2011 NHL Plus / Minus Award
- 2011 Stanley Cup win with the Boston Bruins
- 2011 Mark Messier Leadership Award
- 2011 NHL Second All- Star Team
- 2012 NHL All-Star Game
- 2012 NHL Second All-Star Team
Internationally
- 2000 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2004 All- Star Team of the World Cup
- 2012 Silver medal at the World Championships
- 2012 Best defender of the world championship
- 2012 All - Star Team of the World Cup
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Slovakia at:
- 1999 World Cup
- World Cup 2000
- World Cup 2001
- World Cup 2004
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- World Championship 2005
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2007
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2012
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )