Now, I know you’re reading this and probably sitting there getting a bit pale at the thought, but we have to consider this a pretty strong possibility. Even if Chara shows up in a full-on cage so thick a bullet couldn’t break through, it’s extremely unlikely he’ll play any longer than a few minutes at most, and even then it’s unlikely the Bruins would subject their ancient-by-hockey-player-standards veteran captain to possibly making his list of potential offseason medical procedures and recovery time even worse than it probably already is.
So that puts the B’s in a slightly bigger pickle than they already were in after Matt Grzelcyk went down due to Oscar Sundqvist braining him.