A Night for Big Z: Chára’s Banner, Bruins Legacy, and What It Still Means | Bonus Content

0:06 Speaker 1: Now I know, and I had fomo that you were

0:10 Speaker 1: able to attend the zadano'chara raising of the banner. Yes,

0:17 Speaker 1: unfortunately able to attend. You know what I do have

0:22 Speaker 1: to say about that bobblehead and you know some of

0:25 Speaker 1: these statues like why is it that we can't recreate

0:32 Speaker 1: a likeness of the player that we are trying to commemorate.

0:38 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, now this is I've seen the picture where

0:42 Speaker 2: I think this came from, and I'm not even sure

0:44 Speaker 2: it's a good likeness of that, but it's certainly not.

0:46 Speaker 2: The bet doesn't even look the same.

0:50 Speaker 1: It's the bed. Yeah, just I just I mean, short

0:57 Speaker 1: of that, short of that, what I've saw on TV

1:01 Speaker 1: of and I did watch the ceremony on TV looked fantastic.

1:11 Speaker 1: I I got there early, so I got to see

1:13 Speaker 1: the gold carpet.

1:14 Speaker 2: Entrance uhh yeah, which was which was super fun, you know,

1:18 Speaker 2: and and I did that. They did that for the

1:20 Speaker 2: centennial game, and so it's always special to have everybody

1:24 Speaker 2: coming through, walking through the crowd, high fiving, everybody given

1:28 Speaker 2: the knocks, just really special. So the ceremony itself, I

1:36 Speaker 2: mean it was just you know, it was another one

1:37 Speaker 2: of those crying at hockey days. But they did such

1:41 Speaker 2: a and and Boston does this well. They did such

1:43 Speaker 2: a beautiful job of honoring all of the different eras

1:48 Speaker 2: and people and tradition of Boston. And Chara was just

1:57 Speaker 2: so so humble and grateful. I mean, he's such a

1:59 Speaker 2: wonderful person. Yes humble, he was grateful, but he also

2:04 Speaker 2: just brings this sense of ceremony where he goes and

2:07 Speaker 2: fun and you know, he's just amazing. And then the

2:11 Speaker 2: Bees pulled out a wind for him because I was like, oh,

2:13 Speaker 2: just stink if we went through all this and they lose.

2:16 Speaker 1: But they we've seen instances of that before. You know

2:19 Speaker 1: that you've got a big celebration for someone's a thousand

2:22 Speaker 1: months and the gold silver sticks and all these gifts,

2:26 Speaker 1: and then you'll lay landing.

2:29 Speaker 2: No, really, the whole thing from start to finish was

2:34 Speaker 2: just a really spectacular and memorable day. It's fun to

2:38 Speaker 2: it's fun to see him up in the rafters there.

2:40 Speaker 2: It's just just a really cool thing. So yeah, I

2:44 Speaker 2: know that there's a lot of replays of the ceremony

2:46 Speaker 2: and stuff unnessing and people should find it online, but

2:49 Speaker 2: it really it was everything.

2:50 Speaker 1: You would hope it would be.

2:52 Speaker 2: It really felt like a beautiful tribute, but it also

2:54 Speaker 2: felt like we all got to celebrate together. And I

2:57 Speaker 2: think that that's what it's all about.

2:58 Speaker 1: And I thought Andrew Parents did a tremendous job posting

3:03 Speaker 1: the event. I'm seeing it and the stories that he told,

3:09 Speaker 1: and I still get goosebumps anytime I see Robert Gordon

3:14 Speaker 1: or step on the TV garden Ice. I just and

3:18 Speaker 1: and the fact that he makes it a point of

3:22 Speaker 1: being at every single one of these events speaks volumes well,

3:29 Speaker 1: and that's the thing.

3:30 Speaker 2: All the living banner holders were there except for s

3:33 Speaker 2: BO wasn't able to make it for this one, but

3:35 Speaker 2: he's usually there for stuff.

3:37 Speaker 1: He's usually there, you know, so for whatever. But he's

3:39 Speaker 1: also eighty and lives in Florida, So yeah, I think

3:42 Speaker 1: he's eighty eighty four at this point. But yeah, and

3:46 Speaker 1: I know people were like speculating, but there's no whatever

3:50 Speaker 1: animosity that did. That animosity went away longly.

3:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he because he usually comes up for things. Yes,

4:00 Speaker 2: that was not a thing. So every they were all there.

4:02 Speaker 2: There was a bunch of his teammates from twenty eleven

4:06 Speaker 2: to help honor him, like it was you know, like

4:08 Speaker 2: Crechy was there and as somebody say he was doing,

4:10 Speaker 2: They're like, he looks like he could split, he could

4:12 Speaker 2: still play. Andrew looks like he could still play. No,

4:16 Speaker 2: Andrew looks like amazing. Yeah, but I but I like

4:19 Speaker 2: there was there was such a personal touch, such good stories.

4:23 Speaker 2: But it was it was humor mixed with nostalgiam mixed

4:26 Speaker 2: with history mixed with honor. Like they really just ruins,

4:30 Speaker 2: do those kind of things really.

4:32 Speaker 1: Well, and they seem to tweak them and get better

4:35 Speaker 1: with each one, so we know by the time they

4:39 Speaker 1: get to the raising of the banner for number thirty seven,

4:42 Speaker 1: they are really your point just around the corner. I mean,

4:46 Speaker 1: he's he's going to be a first ballot, first ballot

4:50 Speaker 1: market Hall of Famer.

4:51 Speaker 2: I think charm may have they might have pushed his

4:53 Speaker 2: out a little bit more, except for he was like, well,

4:55 Speaker 2: you can't go in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and

4:57 Speaker 2: then I have us Dilly dellly in this right, And

5:00 Speaker 2: that'll be the same thing with Bergie.

5:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure it will be. I'm sure it will be.

5:04 Speaker 1: And I just had a thought pop into my head

5:06 Speaker 1: and it just went immediately out Oh, I love that

5:09 Speaker 1: Chara read the name of every member of the twenty

5:13 Speaker 1: eleven Stanley Cup championship team.

5:15 Speaker 2: Wasn't that touching?

5:18 Speaker 1: It was awesome. Just shows what a sentiment like. Just

5:21 Speaker 1: a really class listen. You know, there there have been

5:26 Speaker 1: a very small number of players who have had a

5:32 Speaker 1: significant impact on changing the culture of sports teams here

5:38 Speaker 1: in Boston. We can start with, you know, Tom Brady

5:42 Speaker 1: for the Patriots, So Dan o'chara for the Boston Bruins,

5:48 Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett for the Boston Celtics, and David Ortiz for

5:53 Speaker 1: the Boston No. I think you're right, So kudos and

5:57 Speaker 1: and and what I'm also so sort of hoping is

6:01 Speaker 1: this brings in that culture of accountability. I think it

6:05 Speaker 1: has again. I think it has again. And I think,

6:09 Speaker 1: you know, and I think we need to give credit

6:11 Speaker 1: to players like Nikita Zadorov and Victor Ardvidson, along with

6:18 Speaker 1: postnach and McAvoy and Hampus lind Home for reinvigorating and

6:25 Speaker 1: rejuvenating that culture. Yeah. I agree.

6:30 Speaker 2: So, yeah, this is it. I'll tell you whatever else

6:34 Speaker 2: happens this season, they have put some entertaining hockey on

6:37 Speaker 2: the ice.

6:38 Speaker 1: Well, you know, and we've had those up and downs

6:40 Speaker 1: right where they've been, you know, streaky in either the

6:45 Speaker 1: W column or the alcohol. Now, a little consistency there

6:48 Speaker 1: might be beneficial. But the fact that the man this

6:53 Speaker 1: is certainly a we're watching better hockey this season than

7:01 Speaker 1: we have been subjected to last season. Agreed.

7:05 Speaker 2: And I think that that speaks to this culture that

7:08 Speaker 2: you see them out there competing.

7:10 Speaker 1: They're playing for each other, they're fighting for each other,

7:15 Speaker 1: they're sticking up for each other. So all steps, all

7:20 Speaker 1: positive steps in the right direction. The question, the million

7:25 Speaker 1: dollar question is who and how many will still be

7:31 Speaker 1: part of that frost or moving forward.

7:35 Speaker 2: That's where we get to start playing hockey.

7:36 Speaker 1: Meth h Yeah, too soon, too soon for that now,

7:40 Speaker 1: too soon that, but you know, for right for right now,

7:46 Speaker 1: for right now, I think things are trending in the

7:49 Speaker 1: right direction. And I think it's helpful to other players

7:53 Speaker 1: outside of the organization to see, oh, they do have

7:58 Speaker 1: that culture, right, they do have a plan, they do

8:03 Speaker 1: have a system, they do have a structure, they do

8:07 Speaker 1: have a commitment to getting back to their winning ways again, yep, agreed.

8:13 Speaker 1: And we're not sending letters to our season ticket holders

8:16 Speaker 1: like the Rangers.

8:18 Speaker 2: What a disaster. Oh the worst, What a disaster, What

8:24 Speaker 2: a disaster. Yeah, but you felt sorry for Sabers fans before,

8:28 Speaker 2: nothing compared to how I feel for the Rangers fans

8:31 Speaker 2: right now. Well, this wasn't supposed to happen to see.

8:34 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think this was anticipated. It was

8:38 Speaker 2: not to be playing out in this manner. And you know,

8:42 Speaker 2: I'm not sure how I feel about the whole letter

8:45 Speaker 2: writing thing. I know that they have done it previously.

8:48 Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I say, God, I wish, you know,

8:53 Speaker 2: that management would give us a little bit more transparency

8:56 Speaker 2: and be more upfront. So I think I do you

9:00 Speaker 2: appreciate that and kind of the heads up that you're

9:05 Speaker 2: going to be cleaning house as opposed to seeing what

9:08 Speaker 2: we saw transpire last season where virtually your entire core,

9:13 Speaker 2: including your captain, it's traded and you're sitting there with like,

9:19 Speaker 2: what the hell just happened here?

9:21 Speaker 1: What just happened here? Yeah, So I'm not sure which

9:24 Speaker 1: I prefer.

9:25 Speaker 2: I'm not sure either.

9:26 Speaker 1: Be that as it may, we have been seeing some

9:30 Speaker 1: good hockey the Bruins have as of the date of

9:34 Speaker 1: this recording, which is January nineteenth, Martin Luther King Day,

9:39 Speaker 1: very special day for our nation. They have played themselves

9:45 Speaker 1: back into a walkhard spot, I know, and I think

9:49 Speaker 1: they're benefiting from the fact that nobody in the Eastern

9:52 Speaker 1: Conference wants to be a league team right now.

9:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's still on it thus like it

9:59 Speaker 2: was when I was preping things for this. Uh, you

10:02 Speaker 2: know looking at Providence. Things change every day. Yes, a

10:06 Speaker 2: gay played. Oh now we're up, Now we're down. I

10:08 Speaker 2: mean it's aboutwer.

10:09 Speaker 1: Down, keep up. But it's that it's that tight. The

10:12 Speaker 1: standings are that tight and that close in the wildcard spots.

10:18 Speaker 1: And and don't look now, but believe Matthew kachuk Is

10:23 Speaker 1: is supposed to come back today today. Yeah, Florida Panthers

10:27 Speaker 1: could be a thorn in people's sides again. Sound We'll

10:32 Speaker 1: see how that goes. But I know I'll be seeing

10:34 Speaker 1: you in Tampa for sure. No, I can't wait at

10:38 Speaker 1: the stadium series, so hopefully it'll warm up there. I

10:41 Speaker 1: think I saw her a weather map today where I

10:44 Speaker 1: get what area of Florida was. But oh, the National

10:48 Speaker 1: Championship game is in Florida, I believe tonight and it

10:51 Speaker 1: was only twenty five degrees so.

10:53 Speaker 2: How my dad texts me from Florida the other day.

10:55 Speaker 2: It was in the twenties.

10:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, thank you, Okay, I'm not happy. Yeah, I'm

11:00 Speaker 1: sure it's not sure. Not well, folks, Thank you for listening.

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11:46 Speaker 3: With that said, folks, go bees, go bes.

12:03 Speaker 1: Still still