{"id":418261,"date":"2026-01-18T23:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:39:13","slug":"bruins-legend-chara-shows-support-for-patriots-in-afc-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418261\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins legend Chara shows support for Patriots in AFC semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey Patriots fans, this is Big Z. I&#8217;m super excited to be at the game,&#8221; Chara said in a clip shared by the team. &#8220;Let&#8217;s go Pats!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chara was wearing a home blue No. 0 Christian Gonzalez jersey to the game while hanging on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember Gonzalez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/new-england-patriots-christian-gonzalez-zdeno-chara-jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rocked a Chara home Bruins jersey<\/a> ahead of the Patriots opening round playoff victory against the Los Angeles Chargers last week.<\/p>\n<p>Chara, the tallest player in NHL history at 6-foot-9, recently had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/boston-bruins-zdeno-chara-revels-in-greatest-honor-as-number-33-retired\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his number raised to the rafters<\/a> at TD Garden and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hey Patriots fans, this is Big Z. I&#8217;m super excited to be at the game,&#8221; Chara said in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-418261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}