BOSTON --The sound swelled, as it had on that night in 2019, before Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final, the whistles and claps and cheers, the adulation pouring down from the highest reaches of TD Garden ...

The New York Islanders celebrated Zdeno Chara and his record-breaking number of games played by an NHL defenseman before the matchup against the St. Louis Blues at UBS Arena on Saturday. The team put ...

At first glance, it can be easy to size up a player like Zdeno Chara. An imposing monolith on skates, the 6-foot-9 defenseman anchored Boston’s blue line for 14 seasons — using his frame to snuff out ...

BOSTON — Trying to pick a favorite Zdeno Chara moment as a Bruin is like looking for a specific penny at the bottom of a wishing well ... you simply cannot do it. It could be the time he bloodied ...

There was his booming slap shot at the 2012 NHL All-Star Skills competition — still standing as the fastest shot in NHL history at 108.8 miles per hour. The TD Garden roared with approval of the ...