101 Facts About Bobby Orr

Bobby Orr used his ice skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position of defenceman.

Bobby Orr played in the National Hockey League for 12 seasons, the first 10 with the Boston Bruins, followed by two with the Chicago Black Hawks.

Bobby Orr remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies.

Bobby Orr holds the record for most points and assists in a single season by a defenceman.

Bobby Orr won a record eight consecutive Norris Trophies as the NHL's best defenceman and three consecutive Hart Trophies as the league's most valuable player .

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Bobby Orr was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979 at age 31, the youngest to be inducted at that time.

In 2017, Bobby Orr was named by the National Hockey League as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.

Bobby Orr first played as a forward, but moved to defense and was encouraged to use his skating skills to control play.

At fourteen, Bobby Orr joined the Oshawa Generals, the Bruins' junior hockey affiliate, and he was an all-star for three of his four seasons.

In 1966, Bobby Orr joined the Boston Bruins, a team that had not won a Stanley Cup since 1941 and had not qualified for the playoffs since 1959.

In both victories, Bobby Orr scored the clinching goal and was named the playoff MVP.

In 1976, Bobby Orr left Boston as a free agent to join the Black Hawks, but repeated injuries had effectively destroyed his left knee, and he retired in 1978 at age 30.

However, after his retirement, Bobby Orr learned he was deeply in debt and he had to sell off most of what he owned.

Bobby Orr broke with his agent Alan Eagleson and sued the Black Hawks to settle his contract.

Bobby Orr aided the investigations that led to Eagleson's fraud convictions and disbarment.

Bobby Orr supported a lawsuit that challenged the NHL over its control of its pension plan.

Bobby Orr entered the player agent business in 1996 and was the president of the Bobby Orr Hockey Group agency, until its acquisition by the Wasserman Media Group in 2018.

Bobby Orr is active in charitable works and in television commercials.

Since 1996, Bobby Orr has coached a team of junior hockey players in the annual CHL Top Prospects Game.

Bobby Orr was born in the town of Parry Sound on the shores of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada.

Bobby Orr's grandfather, Robert Orr, was a top-tier soccer pro player who emigrated from Ballymena, Northern Ireland to Parry Sound early in the 20th century.

Doug Bobby Orr instead joined the Royal Canadian Navy, serving during the Second World War.

Bobby Orr returned after the war to Parry Sound and Arva Steele, whom he had married before he left for war, and to a job in the CIL dynamite factory.

Bobby Orr was a sick baby at birth and his survival was tenuous.

Bobby Orr played his first organized hockey in 1953 at age five, in the "minor squirt" division, a year after getting his first skates and playing shinny.

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Bobby Orr was noticed by the Boston Bruins in the spring of 1961, playing in a youth hockey tournament in Gananoque, Ontario.

Bobby Orr was only fourteen, competing against eighteen-, nineteen- and twenty-year-olds.

Bobby Orr scored 29 goals to set a junior record for goals by a defenceman and was named to the OHA's first All-Star team.

Bobby Orr scored 38 goals to increase his goal-scoring record and finished with 94 points to average two points per game for the Generals.

Doug Bobby Orr met Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson at a juvenile fastball tournament dinner in Parry Sound and asked Eagleson to help out with the situation.

Bobby Orr would refuse to play with the Bruins and played for Canada's national team instead, like Carl Brewer.

Bobby Orr wanted desperately to play in the NHL, but he went along with Eagleson's strategy and was willing to play for the nationals.

The Bruins were not convinced Bobby Orr belonged on defence, trying him out at centre first.

In that first season, Bobby Orr was challenged by the veterans, and he earned respect by defeating Montreal tough guy Ted Harris in his first NHL fight.

Season, Bobby Orr scored 13 goals and 28 assists, one of the best rookie seasons in NHL history to that point by a defenceman.

Bobby Orr won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's outstanding rookie and was named to the NHL's Second All-Star team.

Bobby Orr had to sit out five games afterwards due to soreness in his left knee.

Bobby Orr would receive the first of his many operations on the knee, repairing ligament and removing cartilage.

Bobby Orr did return to finish the season, but required an operation during the off-season to remove a bone chip.

Bobby Orr required an ice pack on the knee after every game and missed nine games after he caught a skate in a crack in the ice, twisting his knee.

Bobby Orr returned to the line-up and finished the season playing through the pain, sometimes struggling to get up to speed and relying on teammates instead of making the plays himself.

Bobby Orr scored 21 goals on the season, breaking the goal-scoring record for a defenceman, and totalled 64 points to set a new point-scoring record for one season for a defenceman.

Bobby Orr again won the Norris Trophy while nabbing a First-Team All-Star selection and finishing third in the Hart Trophy balloting.

Bobby Orr feuded with Toronto rookie defenceman Pat Quinn that season.

Bobby Orr was carried out on a stretcher to the dressing room where he revived after the concussion.

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Bobby Orr returned for the third game against Toronto, getting two assists as the Bruins won their first games in Toronto since 1965.

Bobby Orr went on to lead the Bruins in a march through the 1970 playoffs scoring nine goals and 11 assists.

Subsequent photograph by Ray Lussier of a horizontal Bobby Orr flying through the air, his arms raised in victory – he had been tripped by Blues' defenceman Noel Picard after scoring the goal – has become one of the most famous and recognized hockey images of all time—and today is highlighted in the opening sequence of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Hockey Night in Canada telecasts.

Bobby Orr himself finished second in league scoring with 139 points, thirteen points behind Esposito, while setting records that still stand for points in a season by a defenceman and for plus-minus by any position player.

Bobby Orr's Bruins were heavy favourites to repeat as Cup champions, but were upset by the Montreal Canadiens and their rookie goaltender Ken Dryden, at one time Bruins' property, in the first round of the 1971 playoffs.

Bobby Orr again won the Hart and Norris trophies, helping the Bruins to a first-place finish in the East.

Bobby Orr won the MVP award at the 1972 NHL All-Star Game to win three MVP awards in one season.

Bobby Orr amassed 101 points during the regular season but had only two points in the playoff loss.

Bobby Orr won the league scoring title and the Art Ross Trophy for the second time.

Bobby Orr's contract was ending after the season, potentially making him a free agent.

The Bruins and Bobby Orr reached a verbal agreement with the Jacobs during the summer of 1975, including a controversial agreement for Bobby Orr to take an 18.

Bobby Orr's season was over after ten games and he would not play again for the Bruins.

Bobby Orr's impending free agency led to speculation that the Bruins would trade him, but despite his injury, they were negotiating to keep him until the end.

Bobby Orr signed with the Black Hawks at a secret meeting in May 1976, prior to becoming a free agent.

Cherry recalled Bobby Orr had refused to speak with the Bruins team president directly, allowing Eagleson to mislead or withhold enough details from Boston's offer.

Bobby Orr did not play in the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, and he wanted badly to play for Canada.

Bobby Orr had been unable to play in the Summit Series due to knee surgery, although he did participate as a non-player.

Bobby Orr was the best player in every game; he was the best player in the tournament.

Bobby Orr signed with Chicago, but his injuries limited him to only 26 games over the next three seasons.

Bobby Orr started a new role as an assistant to Chicago general manager Bob Pulford.

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Bobby Orr retired having scored 270 goals and 645 assists for 915 points in 657 games, adding 953 penalty minutes.

Bobby Orr was the eighth player to have the three-year period waived, the next two being Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky, after which the Hall decided that the waiting period would no longer be waived for any player except under "certain humanitarian circumstances".

Bobby Orr attended the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives and was given a five-minute standing ovation.

Boston Celtics basketball superstar Larry Bird said in his pre-game inspiration that he always looked up at the rafters of the Garden at Bobby Orr's retired No 4, instead of the retired numbers of Celtics stars such as Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, or John Havlicek.

Bobby Orr inspired the game of hockey with his command of the two-way game.

In contrast to the style of hanging-back defensive play common in the later 1950s and 1960s, Bobby Orr was known for his fluid skating and end-to-end rushing.

Bobby Orr's rushing enabled him to be where the puck was, allowing him not only to score effectively but to defend when necessary.

Bobby Orr was a left-hand shot who played the right side.

Bobby Orr's left knee was used in a MasterCard commercial in 2008, his scar lines used in an animation connecting his many achievements to the year of the individual scar line.

Bobby Orr had a deadly accurate shot, as goaltender Philadelphia Flyers Bernie Parent admitted "If his shot is on net, it's a goal".

Bobby Orr pushed his teammates, [because] you're playing with the best player in the league and he's giving you the puck and you just can't mess it up.

Bobby Orr, cut and bleeding, got up from the ice, pulled MacKenzie off Conacher and started punching Conacher.

Shortly after Bobby Orr retired, an independent accountant revealed that Bobby Orr's liabilities exceeded his assets, leaving him essentially bankrupt despite being supposedly one of the highest-paid players in the NHL.

Bobby Orr served briefly as an assistant coach for Chicago, and as a consultant to the NHL and the Hartford Whalers.

Bobby Orr moved back to the Boston area and formed Can-Am Enterprises with partners Tom Kelly and Paul Shanley, which built up a clientele of endorsements for Bobby Orr, including Baybank and Standard Brands.

Bobby Orr did eventually restore his finances, thanks to endorsement contracts and public relations work.

Bobby Orr later played a role in the exposure of Eagleson's misconduct over the years.

Bobby Orr had once considered Eagleson a "big brother", but broke with him in 1980 in part because he suspected that Eagleson had not been truthful with him.

Bobby Orr was one of several players who filed a formal complaint of legal misconduct against Eagleson with the Law Society of Upper Canada over Eagleson's lending of trust monies without the consent or knowledge of his clients.

Bobby Orr was involved in the 1991 lawsuit of retired NHL players against the NHL over its control of the players' pension fund.

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Bobby Orr became a certified agent, although he would not be negotiating with hockey clubs.

Cherry, briefly his former coach in Boston, considers Bobby Orr the greatest hockey player who ever lived, noting that Bobby Orr was a complete all-around player who could skate, score, fight, and defend.

Bobby Orr's participation was criticized as a conflict of interest while he was a player's agent and he stopped coaching in the series.

Bobby Orr stepped down again before the 2011 game for the birth of his second grandchild.

Bobby Orr became a grandfather when granddaughter Alexis was born in 2009.

Bobby Orr has been known to be fiercely loyal to former Bruin personnel and teammates.

When Derek Sanderson had alcohol and prescription drug-abuse problems and wound up penniless, Bobby Orr spent his own money to ensure that Sanderson successfully completed rehab.

Bobby Orr helped out Bruins trainer John Forristall, his roommate during his first years with the Bruins, who had just been fired from the Tampa Bay Lightning for alcoholism in 1994.

Bobby Orr took Forristall into his home for a year until he died at the age of 51.

Bobby Orr is well known for his charitable works, although he kept mention of them out of the press.

In 1980, Bobby Orr was awarded the Multiple Sclerosis Silver Hope Chest Award by the Multiple Sclerosis Society for his "numerous and unselfish contributions to society".

Bobby Orr is known for his taste in clothes and style of dress.

When living as a bachelor with Forristall during his years with the Bruins, Bobby Orr was known for keeping a clean apartment and not drinking, smoking, or night-clubbing.

In 1970, Bobby Orr received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

Bobby Orr has been honoured with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.

Bronze statue of Bobby Orr stands next to Boston's TD Garden, the Bruins' home arena.