Don Sweeney Speaks On Zdeno Chara's New Position Within The Boston Bruins Organization
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After a disappointing year, the Boston Bruins are looking to build a new foundation of core players this off-season.
As the Bruins upper management begin the process of entering a new era, the organization has decided to bring in an old friend, and a legend of the Boston Bruins.
Late in January, it was revealed by Kevin Paul Dupont of The Boston Globe that the Boston Bruins were bringing Zdeno Chara into the organization, and he is going to rejoin the team in a "front office consultant's role".
«The Boston Bruins are excited to be exploring the opportunity to welcome Zdeno Chara in an advisory role that supports our players and coaches,» Sweeney said in a statement following Dupont's report. «We have had an open invitation and ongoing dialogue with Zdeno to return in some capacity whenever he felt it was right for both he and his family.
«Zdeno recently indicated he has interest to help and be involved. While his schedule and role are still unfolding, we believe he can make a positive impact on the organization as a mentor to our players and advisor to our coaching staff.»
«Zdeno recently indicated he has interest to help and be involved. While his schedule and role are still unfolding, we believe he can make a positive impact on the organization as a mentor to our players and advisor to our coaching staff.»
There wasn't much details surrounding Chara and his role with the team, but he was spotted around the team's facilities including at TD Garden and Warrior Ice over the past couple of months.
Speaking to the media on Monday after the NHL Draft Lottery, Don Sweeney spoke on his role within the organization.
Sweeney Speaks On Chara's Role With The Organization
«Since players have left, he's not here on a daily basis,» Sweeney said of Chara. «Continues to talk to players on his own accord. We don't set any boundaries in terms of Z [with] talking to our coaches and our players.
«We've given him some latitude as an advisory role and a mentor role as he sees fit. Establish relationships on his own terms. I think that will continue to evolve going forward with the new head coach, and we put that in place, and the rest of the staff. He'll develop that relationship moving forward and determine how much involvement he's going to have on that level.»
«We've given him some latitude as an advisory role and a mentor role as he sees fit. Establish relationships on his own terms. I think that will continue to evolve going forward with the new head coach, and we put that in place, and the rest of the staff. He'll develop that relationship moving forward and determine how much involvement he's going to have on that level.»
Chara is a known leader, and was during his time with the Bruins, having him as a leader of the team once again is going to be nice for the Bruins moving forward, and will help with their efforts of retooling the roster ahead of the 2025-26 season.
Chara's leadership role in a Bruins winning culture definitely helped him get this opportunity with the franchise.
«Without that, you can't win,» Chara said at his retirement ceremony about building a culture in Boston. «You need to have a culture. You need to have players that want to follow, and it wasn't just me. It was a team effort. . We had guys stepping in willing to come from other teams and adjust to that culture. We pushed each other. We were practicing as hard as we could against each other, but we were still ok with it.
«We set goals, and slowly and surely, we were climbing and making these steps, but without the culture and without someone planting the seed and basically putting the foot down that this is how it's going to be, yeah it was hard at the beginning. It was not probably easy, and not everybody wanted to kind of change, but it was necessary. I felt it was necessary for this organization and for this team to make a change.»
«We set goals, and slowly and surely, we were climbing and making these steps, but without the culture and without someone planting the seed and basically putting the foot down that this is how it's going to be, yeah it was hard at the beginning. It was not probably easy, and not everybody wanted to kind of change, but it was necessary. I felt it was necessary for this organization and for this team to make a change.»
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