Caps shock the NHL with signing of Zdeno Chara
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
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4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Caps closed out 2020 with the stunning signing of former Norris Trophy defenseman Zdeno Chara. JJ Regan is joined by Joe Haggerty of BostonHockeyNow.com, one of the foremost experts on the Bruins and Chara, to break down just what the Caps are getting from the soon-to-be 44-year-old defenseman - as well as what this means for the Bruins, a team that the Caps have dominated over the years and will face 8! times this season!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the year 2020 had one more surprise for us, and it was a big one, literally. |
| 0:11.1 | Dano Chara is a Washington Capitol. |
| 0:13.8 | I cannot believe those words are coming out of my mouth. |
| 0:16.6 | To make sense of the world, we're going to have Joe Haggerty to talk about Zanachara |
| 0:20.9 | and what this means for the Capitals. |
| 0:23.2 | This is the Capitals Talk podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | His spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:33.5 | It's not a dream. |
| 0:33.7 | It's not a desert barrage. |
| 0:35.5 | It's Lord Stanley. |
| 0:36.8 | And he is coming to Washington. |
| 0:44.4 | Join me now to talk about the Char signing in all things Boston Bruins is the lead Bruins writer for Boston Hockey now. |
| 0:50.8 | Joe Hagerty. |
| 0:52.0 | Joe, I don't know about you, but I was so shocked about the news |
| 0:55.3 | that Chara was signing with the Capitals that I didn't believe it at first. What was your reaction when he found out Char wasn't just leaving Boston, but he was going to Washington. Yeah, the Capitals was a little surprising. I'm not going to lie to you. I thought there was other places he might go, but it does make sense. |
| 1:11.4 | His family's staying in Boston. |
| 1:12.8 | I think he didn't want to go too far away if he was to you. I thought there was other places he might go. But it does make sense. His family's staying in |
| 1:12.3 | Boston. I think he didn't want to go too far away if he was going to play for another team. So it was |
| 1:16.5 | going to be somebody, you know, in close proximity travel-wise to Boston. And then certainly, you know, |
| 1:23.1 | I think Zadino Char did want to pick a team in the Bruins Division. So he gets to play them |
| 1:27.1 | eight times during the regular season. And now he just adds to that absolute just bully fest that the Washington Capitals have when it comes to the Bruins, where they just push them around every time they play each other and have basically owned them for the last 10 years. So, you know, putting Zadano Chara on that roster with Tom Wilson and Ovechkin and, you know, all the rest of the capitals is just going to add to the misery of the Bruins when they play each other. So I was surprised he went to Washington a little bit, maybe not when I thought about it a little bit, but him leaving the Bruins in general, not surprising to me. I had had the sense for about the last month that it |
| 2:01.9 | wasn't going to work out between the Bruins and Zadano Chara. They wanted him in more of an either |
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