Zdeno Chára is an NHL hockey player who is a defenseman for the Boston Bruins. He is the oldest active player in the NHL (as of September 2019) at 42 years old. He is 6 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 250 pounds, which makes him the tallest hockey player ever in the NHL. He was born in Slovakia, where he was encouraged to play basketball because of how tall he is. His father was a Greco-Roman wrestler. He married in 2007 and has three children. He endorses You Can Play, a social activism campaign that aims to eradicate homophobic language in professional sports.