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Bruins’ Zdeno Chara plays 1,000th career game

Big defenseman enjoys milestone

By Kevin Paul Dupont

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 25, 2012

Doug Houda , these days a Bruins assistant coach, was there from the start. It was a long time ago, early in the 1997-98 NHL season, but Houda remembers those early days on Long Island with that humongous, gangly kid from Slovakia trying to find his place in the game.

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