If you're too young to have seen Bobby Orr play - TSN

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Is showing the 76 Canada cup right now.

Just a note to Hockey fans in Canada.

[smirkymonkey]

1. I met Bobby Orr - Went to his 40th Birthday Party w/ an

ex-boyfriend.

[yvr girl]

3. I met him too

Charity golf event

[Kat45]

15. Me too. I met him and got his autograph at a charity softball event.

Bobby Orr does a lot of things for charity.

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17. Bobby Orr donated a rink in his hometown

When the city sold off the rink to a private company, he demanded the name be changed from "Bobby Orr arena"

[Gelliebeans]

2. thanx !

[DancingBear]

4. Orr was responsible for the best play by play call ever!

Fred Cusick was doing a Bruins game, and Orr scored on a brilliant solo end to end rush from behind his own net. Here was the ENTIRE call that Cusick made:

Orr. Turning. Skating. Deking. Shooting. Scoring!

[KlatooBNikto]

5. I used to live within three blocks of The Maple Leaf Gardens in

Toronto during the height of the rivalry between the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens. Bobby Orr who came from Ontario was always the crowd's favorite regardless of the team for which he played. Whenever he took the puck deep in his own end zone and started toward the other end with Phil Esposito and Derek Sanderson at either wing, a collective gasp would go up with the expectation a goal was sure to follow. And what an exciting and classy skater and player Bobby Orr was.I am glad I was fortunate to have seen a master in action.No one like him ever.

[DancingBear]

6. Jesus Saves!

(and Esposito scores on the rebound)

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8. There was a billboard in Reading MA with that on it around 70-71.

[DancingBear]

9. Bumper stickers everywhere, too

I grew up in CT.

[KlatooBNikto]

11. Great feelings from those days.Even as a Maple Leaf fan of long standing

I had to admire the Bruins' tremedous firepower with Bobby Orr providing the finesse,Espo the quickness and the rest providing the muscle.What a great team they were!

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7. Orr was the best skater, passer, checker and shooter that I have ever seen

He would literally skate circles around his opponents. He'd take the puck the length of the ice to score or pass for a score. He'd get 120 pts a season, scoring 40-50 goals, AS A DEFENSEMAN!
Bobby was damn tough too. One time, goon, Keith Magnuson was taunting him to a fight for an entire game, Orr just bounced off him till Magnuson swung at him. Orr then proceded to knock him to the ice and pummel him to a bloody pulp. Magnuson or for that matter, anyone else, never played him like that again.

It was pure beauty to watch him skate.

[IconoclastIlene]

10. wrong thread, crap.

better luck next time

[SidDithers]

12. By 1976, his knees hardly worked...

and he was still the best player on the ice.

In 1970-71, his +/- was +124. That was how dominating he was.

Gretzky, Howe, Lemieux. Orr is #1 in my books.

Sid

[Davis_X_Machina]

13. One Sunday on channel 38 in Boston...

...I saw him kill a penalty single-handed against the Canadiens. He just ragged the puck, solo, for two minutes, against one of the greatest teams of all time.

My tombstone:

I saw Orr skate.
I saw Bird shoot.
I saw Pedro pitch.

In all, it was a good life.

[ironflange]

14. Orr was the greatest

Not Gretzky. Bobby made things happen, Gretz waited for things to happen.

Reminds me of the joke:

Q: Why is Wayne Gretzky like a paint roller?
A: Neither one goes into the corners.

Bobby Orr loved to go into the corners.

[Kat45]

16. I saw him play back in the early seventies.

It was really tough to get tix to Bruins games back then; they were always sold out. Man, they had such a great team back then. Two Stanley Cups in three years--I skipped school to go to both Stanley Cup parades in Boston.