Zdeno Chara was sitting on the boards along the Islanders’ bench, looking up and letting himself smile.
, were still down a goal and their season was about to end unceremoniously, but that didn’t matter in the moment. UBS Arena was chanting his name, and for once in a career that spanned 24 seasons, Chara had no choice but to let the moment be about him.
For just the second time this season, and the first on home ice, Chara scored a goal to cut the deficit to 5-4, with what he would later call “an OK shot,” one intended to produce a rebound, making its way past Andrei Vasilevskiy. The Islanders still lost, but that was beside the point. Even this season, as the Islanders played a schedule that took a toll on every person in the dressing room, even as Chara felt the wear and tear of the long road trips and the COVID-19 induced makeup games late in the year, he managed to stay on the ice.“I’ve not seen that ever in 20 years of the game,” Trotz said.
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