Chara hits Pacioretty
It seems now that the Bruins have disposed of Montreal in a hard-fought seven-game Eastern Conference quarterfinal series, Max Pacioretty has decided to do more than just agitate through Twitter.
The Canadiens forward went public with his forgiveness of Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara nearly two months after Boston’s captain hit the Canadiens youngster into the stanchion at the Bell Centre. Pacioretty is on the road to recovery from a fractured vertebrae and severe concussion.
Bill Beacon of Canadian Press reported the story. Here’s what Pacioretty said:
“I think he regrets what he did and I forgive him because he definitely made an effort to contact me and go out of his way to tell me how he felt. I respect him for that.
“It’s a fast game and it’s tough to make a decision in a second. Fortunately now I’ll be ready to go next season.”
Don’t you get the feeling someday these guys are going to be teammates? Anyway, maybe Pacioretty’s public comments will calm some of the outside furor that continues since the March 8 hit. Of course, he had to time his comments for after the series, so he wouldn’t show any forgiveness for the enemy — which I guess is all right.
RD, that was just a jab at Tremblay for calling the Bruins goons. Last year was indeed the biggest choke in hockey history, maybe sports history.
RD – can’t see AK46 on the B’s, I would shoot myself. I would take Cammalleri on my team anyday and Lars Ellers is going to be a star
Another Montreal fan blabbing about bad hits, when there have been plenty of bad hits committed by Habs players, with no discipline whatsoever, Hypocrite.
Z, “Accept an apology for finishing a check ? Ok I accept”
Now lets be done with it, please
Geez RF! Hands off Pacioretty. He’s our only big forward that we’re keeping.
You can have Kostitsyn and Pouliot…
Ask Hamrilik about karma
hey jean whats carma? haha
RD…Touche’ ! Its a new year so we will see
Good to see he’s moving forward here, he’s got a bright future and there’s no reason he can’t be the player he was prior to the hit and more. I can see him in a Bruins uniform by 2014
George, you crack me up. Sure, the habs lost but you can’t possibly be bringing up choking when your team is about to face the flyers? Is it possible to not remember that the bruins dropped a 3-0 series lead and a 3-0 lead midway through game 7? You can’t call other people chokers when your team is only one year removed from one of the biggest chokes in professional sports history.
You can say you beat us but man, at least have the dignity to leave choking out of it.
Honestly-I have no issue with Chara’s apologies and Pacioretty’s forgiveness being held close until the series was over-probably best for both teams.
I honestly think in all this it was more the fans that lost their sanity than the actual players, and I hope Pacioretty heals and is able to rejoin his team come the fall.
I often think the fans hate each other far more than the players-especially in huge rivalries like the Habs/Bruins one.
Tremblay, must be tough be a fan of a team that would rather play dead on the ice rather than get up and backcheck like Hamrlik did. What a choke by the Canadiens to be up 2-0 on a bunch of no talent goons and still lose the series.
It’s good when players can actually listen to one another and see the entire side of the story. Max deserves a lot of credit for showing maturity at such a young age. As his comments on Marchand’s nose show, he’s still just a kid, but this is more open-mindedness than we have seen from pretty much anyone in the league.
It helps that Chara really doesn’t have intent to injure.
I hope his career gets past this little detour and makes its way away from Montreal (hey, I’m still a Boston fan!)
Hungus, I’m deleting this comment. No personal attacks, man.
Boston Goons – that’s clever.
Max should speak with Gary Roberts. He had a similar injury years ago. I think most people have forgotten that. Roberts was basically retired because of his neck in Calgary. He came back and played the same way he always did. Getting some strengthening tips and advice regarding the psyche part of contact from Gary might help. I know that will probably be the hardest part.
If Max can do it, no reason for a fan with undamaged vertebra to hold it against him.
Max was blossoming into a decent player. Hopefully there was no permanent damage to either Max’s body or psyche.
He looked like the 210 lb 30 goal scorer with speed that the habs have been looking for the past 10 years.
“You can’t forgive if you’ve gotten even” Mahatma Coat.
Wow, Max Pac has alot of class to forgive this goon that almost killed him on the ice. The Boston Goons could maybe learn a little about class from him. However, carma will come and get Chara some day.