Zdeno Chara News

The Bruins made it easy for Recchi to determine where, for how much, for how long - and most important, why - to put his 41-year-old body through its 21st NHL season.

The Boston Bruins have a lot of tough decisions to make prior to the 2009-2010 NHL season.

National Hockey League general managers talk a conservative game, but some team desperate enough to ignore a projected drop in the $56 million salary cap in 2010 is bound to step up and step over the crowd of shoppers on the opening day of free agency.

A year ago yesterday, the Bruins plucked a discarded Canadien off the free agent market.

In the real world, however, the Bruins aren't likely to do much of anything in the NHL's free agent market, which opens today at noon.

Date: June 18, 2009 Content. On May 19, I published an article that listed the players on my first team.

It's likely the Coyotes will not be involved in a lot of wheeling and dealing during today's first round of the NHL draft in Montreal.

Zdeno Chara is not a name you hear on a regular basis, that is, unless you're a Boston Bruins fan.

On this awards night, in singles and a few times in pairs, the NHL's best appeared on the stage of this Las Vegas hotel.

The trouble with Jay Bouwmeester is that nobody knows for certain what he is -- other than available.

Besides the four individual trophies they won at NHL Awards Night, the Bruins savored another victory last week, but it's one that might end up hurting them on the ice.

The NHL held its yearly awards ceremony in Las Vegas on Thursday night. Alexander Ovechkin was the big winner of the night winning the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player and the Lester B. Pearson Award as the best player as voted on by the players.

Boston Bruins Zdeno Chara kisses the Norris Trophy at the 2009 NHL Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 18, 2009.

Like most who spend time in Las Vegas, Todd McLellan came away empty-handed Thursday night.

Washington forward Alexander Ovechkin won both the Hart Trophy and the Pearson Award Thursday at the NHL's annual post-season banquet.

The NHL announced today that Boston Bruins head coach Claude Julien was named the winner of the 2009 Jack Adams Award, which is awarded "to the head coach who has contributed the most to his team's success," defenseman Zdeno Chara was named the winner of the 2009 Norris Trophy, which is awarded "to the defense player who demonstrates throughout the ...

Zdeno Chara of the Boston Bruins was awarded the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenseman.Chara, who was nominated for the award last season, finished the regular season with 19 goals and 31 assists along with a plus-23 rating.

The NHL is going for a little more glitz and glam by announcing its award winners at the Palms Hotel Las Vegas on Thursday night.

The Boston Bruins have signed general manager Peter Chiarelli to a contract extension, rewarding the architect who built the team with the second-best record in the NHL last season.

You can go through the 2008-2009 roster for the Boston Bruins and find a dozen names who you've never heard of.