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For Chara, the hits kept coming

By Matt Kalman

Saturday, October 31, 2009

BOSTON -- "Good but could be better." Those were the words of Bruins coach Claude Julien after Friday's practice about captain Zdeno Chara's play through the first 11 games of the season. While that doesn't sound like as much of an insult as a sentence involving one's mother and Army boots, it was enough to spark the Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Saturday at TD Garden against the Edmonton Oilers. Along with his season-long blue-line partner Derek Morris, Chara kept the Oilers' top line of S ...

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