Ex-teammate Montador's comments about Chara

I saw a blog post on the Big Bad Blog with some quotes from ex-Bruin Steve Montador about Zdeno Chara and his character and I was kind of shaking by head because I'm not sure how he got that impression from the story he mentions and only playing a total of 24 games (13 regular season games and 11 playoff games) with the Bruins. Here's some of Montador's quotes:

"He has this — and I say this in a good way — a complex that he's the biggest, strongest guy in the league, and for the most part he probably is," Montador said. "I think that he uses that just because she feels that mentality."

"One thing about Zee that I recall when he and I and Mark Recchi were talking was that he had a lot of respect for Mark. When [Recchi] got traded there, [Chara] was talking to him saying, 'I remember one game when you came after me and kept hitting me,' and here's Rex, who at the time would have been 40 years old, and he's going after Zdeno Chara and kept going and ket going."

He had a lot of respect for that, because I think he thought, 'Hey, I'm Zdeno Chara. I'm the biggest guy in the league,' and Mark Recchi, although he’s a really thick and strong guy — he's not the tallest guy — here is coming after him, and [Chara] was kind of wondering, 'What's this guy, is he on something or whatever? He keeps coming after me.' The only reason I tell that story is to just give a sense of how he thinks about himself."

Montador said that he has never found Chara to be "overly dirty," but said that "he's certainly somebody that in some instants you don't want to be going into the corner with."

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"I got a sense that Zee meant to hit him in the way that he did, but I don't think in any way that he wanted the outcome to be the way that it did. The puck had already been chipped past Zee. Maybe just the emotion of that game and from games previous [led to it]."

"I think Zee knew what he was doing there, but like I said, in no way would I think that he'd want to hurt him like that."
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To me, I'm not sure how Montador gets that conclusion about his story of Chara and Mark Recchi. To me Chara is praising Recchi for his work ethnic and never die attitude.

What do you think of Montador's comments?