{"id":278811,"date":"2025-11-12T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278811\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:12:07","slug":"chara-gets-ovation-from-fans-after-hall-of-fame-induction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278811\/","title":{"rendered":"Chara gets ovation from fans after Hall of Fame induction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Bruins defenseman stood up and waved to the crowd, smiling ear to ear at the ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Chara was drafted by the New York Islanders in the 1996 NHL Draft and went on to play 24 seasons in the League (1,680 games).<\/p>\n<p>After playing four seasons with the Islanders, he was traded to the Ottawa Senators, where he spent the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>He then signed with the Bruins, playing the next 14 seasons in Boston. He won the Stanley Cup with Boston in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/zdeno-chara-number-33-to-be-retired-by-boston-bruins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced on Oct. 7<\/a> that Chara\u2019s No. 31 will be retired on Jan. 15, before the team\u2019s game against the Seattle Kraken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Bruins defenseman stood up and waved to the crowd, smiling ear to ear at the ovation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}