The day the towering defenceman left the Ottawa Senators, Peter Chiarelli was waiting to move to Boston with Chara

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Zdeno Chara is one that got away from the Ottawa Senators. Article content

And, when he chose the Boston Bruins by signing a five-year, $37.5 million US deal that paid him an average annual value of $7.5 million, the man bringing him to Beantown was sitting in the bowels of the building then known as the Corel Centre, working on helping the Senators sign minor-league players. Article content Article content

You can’t make this stuff up because it’s one of those stories that will go down in the annals of franchise history.

On Monday night, when Chara is installed into the Hockey Hall of Fame, some place in Sweden, where former Boston general manager Pet

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