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Zdeno Chara changed everything

“Oh, here he goes again,” you say. “Another nostalgia piece.”

That’s right, folks! When you hold the keys to the website, you can wax poetic about anything you want — you all remember Slovaktober, don’t you?

Let’s take a trip back in time, back to the summer of 2006. Your esteemed author had just graduated from high school. Life was full of possibilities.

And the Bruins...sucked. Big time.

Depending on your age, you may or may not remember the state of the team back then: the Bruins headed into the 2004-2005 lockout with two consecutive embarrassing playoff flame-outs.