Zdeno Chara

• Position: defender
• Player status: retired
• Gender: male
• Nationality: Slovakia
• Birth date: 18.03.1977 (48 years)
• Birth place: Trencin, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia

• Height: 206 cm / 6' 10"
• Weight: 115 kg / 254 lbs
• Shoots: left
• Draft 1: NY Islanders, year: 1996, round: 3, position: 56
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• Trivia:

  Two times World record holder for the hardest shot(169.6kmph(105.4mph; 2009 Jan 25 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada) and 170.4kmph(105.9mph; 2011 Jan 30 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States) until Feb 6 2011(Denis Kulyash broke the record with 177.58kmph(110.343mph) fast shot)).

  Drafted 1996, 1 #6 overall by Prince George Cougars in the CHL Import Draft

  Named to AHL All-Rookie team 1997-98

  Named to AHL All-Star game 1997-98

  Named Best Defenseman NHL 2003-04, 2007-08, 2008-09

  Named to NHL First All-Star team 2003-04, 2008-09, 2013-14

  Named to World Championships All-Star team 2003-04, 2011-12

  Named to NHL Second All-Star team 2005-06, 2007-08, 2010-11, 2011-12

  Named to NHL All-Star game 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12

  Named Slovakian Player of the Year 2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2017-18, 2018-19

  Best +/- rating NHL 2010-11

  Won NHL Mark Messier Leadership award 2010-11

  Named Best Defenseman World Championship 2011-12

  Named to KHL All-Star game 2012-13

  Won NHL Sportsmanship award 2018-19, 2021-22