Bruins Preparing To Move On From Chara?
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MarcODecember 16, 2020 (10:09 PM)
The Boston Bruins seem to be done with their offseason shopping and ready to move towards the 2020-21 NHL season.�
Unfortunately it's starting to seem the Bruins will move towards this season without captain Zdeno Chara.�
There's already been chatter that he could be moving on to a new team while there's also chatter that Chara is simply waiting to see if bubbles/hub cities will be involved before he signs a deal with the Bruins.�
�According to Joe Haggerty of BostonHockeyNow, the Bruins are
"attempting an amicable breakup with their longtime captain".�
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Haggerty adds that head coach Bruce Cassidy has hinted at it multiple times this offseason when talking about his defensive group moving forward and identifying Jeremy Lauzon as someone who could replace Chara's physicality.�
The Bruins currently have $2.9million in cap space, enough for the team to sign Chara to a team friendly one year deal.�
However all signs to the Bruins closing the door as one of the team's everyday defensemen right now.�
"If �Zee' ends up in another uniform, then we have to rely on these young guys," Bruce Cassidy in an interview with NBC10's Raul Martinez earlier this offseason. "I guess that's the way I look at it. I look at it as a coach. You try to separate the personal side of it. You go to bat with these guys every day, it's a privilege to coach them but then people change, there's trades and then you move on and then you gotta worry about the next guy.
"I don't want to sound impersonal but that's the way a coach sometimes has to look at it. We gotta get the best out of the next guy that's going into the lineup. So, we'll see how it plays out. No matter what, �Zee' has been a legend in a Bruins uniform, and you know that's a tough one, very difficult one but we'll see how it goes."
Do you think Chara is done with the Bruins?
