Defender Zdeno Chara has joined a new NHL team this season and signed as a free agent with the Washington Capitals after serving as a longtime captain of the Boston Bruins.
That change of address had nothing to do with New Jersey. Yet a new group of his hockey sticks somehow ended up in the Garden State.
Ariel Ben-Abraham, the owner of a clothing company in New Jersey, delivered a FedEx box to his home on January 25 – nothing out of the ordinary for his job. When he opened it, he was shocked when he found the bundle of hockey sticks, all with Chara’s name and his no. 33.
“It should take the cake as the weirdest thing I accidentally got,” Ben-Abraham told ESPN. “Future Hall of Famer sticks, for the longest player in NHL history? It’s madness. This opportunity does not even make sense. ”
The shipment was obviously a mistake. ESPN reports that True Hockey, the maker of Chara’s sticks, has released FedEx and Ben-Abraham after photos of the crash were posted on social media. FedEx told True Hockey the sticks were at a shipyard in Memphis, which was clearly not the case.
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In addition, Chara’s stick model – Project X – is not yet available to the public. The company is therefore working with Ben-Abraham and the capitals to get the sticks from Chara.
The capitals are scheduled to visit New York to play the Rangers, so maybe it’s time for the future Hall-of-Fame defender to finally get his new sticks.
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