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  Bobby Orr
A defenseman, Bobby Orr revolutionized the game of hockey, creating a new breed of defenseman with his offensive role.
Orr's 139 points in the 1970 - 1971 season remains a record for NHL defensemen.
In the late 1970s, Bobby Orr was voted the greatest athlete in Boston history in the Boston Globe newspaper's poll of New Englanders, beating out Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Carl Yastrzemski and Bob Cousy.
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 Bobby Orr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is the only defenseman ever to win the Art Ross Trophy as the league scoring champion, accomplishing this feat twice (1969–70 and 1974–75), and he is also the only defenceman to lead the league in assists, a distinction he held during five seasons.
Orr's agent, Alan Eagleson, did not disclose this to Orr and told him that the Chicago Blackhawks had a better deal.
Bobby Orr is mentioned in the They Might Be Giants song Wicked Little Critta, the fourteenth track off their Mink Car album, and also in a song by The Tragically Hip, "Fireworks" from their 1998 album Phantom Power.
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 Boston Bruins Official Web Site : Bobby Orr: A Worthwhile Investment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Orr suffered a knee injury near the end of his rookie season, and it set off a chain reaction of operations that would not just cut into part of his 1967-68 season, but ultimately cut short his career.
Orr played only 46 of Boston's 74 games in 1967-68, but he was still a hands-down choice for the first team All-Star team and the Norris Trophy as the NHL's best defenseman.
Orr became the first defenseman in history to win the NHL scoring title with a 33-goal, 120-point season, the first of six straight years with 100 points or more.
www.bostonbruins.com /history/bobbyorr.asp   (983 words)

  
 Bobby Orr Biography, pictures and stats - Hockey Fans
Bobby Orr was born on March 20, 1948, in the town of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.
Bobby Orr had an enormous impact on the game of hockey, pioneering the "mobile" or "rushing defenseman".
Orr also led the Boston Bruins to their first Stanley Cup in 29 years when they won the championship in 1970.
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 Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts and the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame (Bobby Orr Hall of Fame - Bobby Orr ...
Bobby's birth was a difficult one with a degree of risk that had his parents worried he would not survive.
Bobby began playing organized hockey at age five, but he leapfrogged through the levels and by the age of twelve was playing against young adults 4 years his elder.
Bobby's acceptance speech was very simple, he expressed his love for the city of Boston, the fans of Boston, and concluded with a very emotional "Thank you".
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 History of Bobby Orr by Orr Fan
Bobby Orr was the first player to hire a lawyer to negotiate a contract.
When Bobby was at long last introduced, the Boston Garden fans rose to their feet and rooted, cheered and applauded for twelve minutes and would not let Mr.
Bobby was, and still is, the youngest player ever to be elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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 ESPN.com: NHL - A profile of Bobby Orr
Bobby began skating at four and the next year he was playing organized hockey.
When he was 18, Orr took the unusual step of having a lawyer, Alan Eagleson, represent him, and he reportedly signed for $50,000 for two years and a $25,000 bonus, the biggest contract ever received by a rookie at that time.
Orr scored 46 goals and won the scoring title with 135 points in 1974-75, but it was his last hurrah.
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 CBC Sports Online - Bobby Orr
Orr, who developed his quickness and soft hands playing shinny as a boy on the frozen Seguin River in Parry Sound, Ont., doesn't see kids outside playing hockey on their own anymore.
Orr jumped from the Oshawa Generals to the Boston Bruins at the tender age of 18, and instantly made an impact with his reckless skating style and confidence with the puck.
Orr said that the physical elements are what make hockey so appealing and stated that when he was playing, the goal of every team was to neutralize a player with a good check, but not maim them.
www.cbc.ca /sports/indepth/focus/orr2.html   (964 words)

  
 GWHL Awards Outline
Tony-"O" Trophy: This trophy is given to the goalie(s), whose team lead the GWHL in goals against average for the regular season.
This trophy is given to the player selected by the general managers of the league.
Al Arbour Trophy: Awarded to the GWHL coach of the year, who is best able to get the most from his players during the regular season and selected by the general managers’ association.
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 Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr's talents are lofty and bright, a subtle shaft of wit, and that keen glance of intellect which has intuition and a deep spring of human action, mixed with respect for others, tempered by rare humility.
Bobby was challenged from the beginning, as the birth was a difficult one.
Orr is not an athlete dying young, not in the true sense of the phrase, but we all know how much went out of his life--and ours--when, barely 30 years old, he had to quit because of knees with little but air left in them.
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 MSN Encarta - Bobby Orr
Orr, Bobby, born in 1948, Canadian ice hockey player, who transformed the role of the hockey defensive line, showing that it could also be an offensive force.
Born Robert Gordon Orr in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, Orr was signed to an amateur contract by the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) when he was 14.
Although plagued by knee injuries that required frequent operations, Orr was still an attraction when he became a free agent after the 1975-76 season.
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 Right-aligned Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Bobby Orr was born on March 20th 1948 in Oshawa.
Bobby Orr started playing with the Oshawa Generals at the tender age of 14.The other players in the league were much older but Bobby was an all-star in the making.In the first year with the Generals Bobby played 34 games and finished with 6 goals and 15 assists for 21 points.
Bobby began his career with #27 but changed it to the legendary #4 a short time later.In his first N.H.L. season he won the Calder Trophy as top rookie.The following season he won the Norris Trophy which would not relinquish for the next 8 years.But he did not play for money only for fun.
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 HockeyOne -- Bobby Orr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
A friend of his fathers bought Bobby his first pair of skates, they were to large for him but his father stuffed the toes with paper and he was off.
Bobby Orr was the first player to hire a lawyer, (the thief), to negotiate a contract.
Bobby was such a dominating force he was name the MVP of the tournament.
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 Legends of Hockey -- The Legends -- Honoured Player -- Orr, Bobby -- Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Orr won his first Stanley Cup in 1970 and it was with a flourish only he could manage.
Orr was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs' most valuable player, an award he would win when Boston again won the title in 1972, again with the Cup-winning goal coming off Orr's stick.
Orr's plus-minus rating when he was at his best was untouchable at plus-124 in 1970-71, when he scored 139 points.
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 Printer version: The Bobby Orr file   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Orr is credited with revolutionizing his position, in essence inventing the two-way defenseman.
Orr was the first player to win three consecutive Hart Trophies as league MVP (1970, 1971, 1972).
Orr was inducted to the Hall in 1979.
www.startribune.com /dynamic/story.php?template=print_a&story=4354294   (510 words)

  
 TSN.ca - NHL - Canada's Sports Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Bobby Orr dominated the NHL for nine remarkable seasons and is regarded as the greatest NHL defenceman of all time.
Bobby Orr's peers talk about how his skill, speed and scoring ability helped change they way the game is played and revolutionized how people thought about defencemen.
Bobby Orr revolutionized the game of hockey and the way defencemen play their position.
www.tsn.ca /nhl/feature.asp?fid=8646   (227 words)

  
 Web Hockey League - Trophy Room
The Calder Memorial Trophy is awarded to the WHL player judged to be the most proficient in his first season.
The Cyber Cup, the oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America, was donated in 1892 by Sir Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston and son of the Earl of Derby.
The King Clancy Memorial Trophy is an annual award given to the player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community.
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 Bobby Orr photos, pics, pictures, nude, biography, bio, gallery, Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr first caught the eye of a Boston Bruin scout in 1960 as a 12 year old defenseman playing in a bantam tournament.
Bobby Orr played in Oshawa until he was 18, when he signed with the Bruins to play in the National Hockey League.
Bobby Orr also led the Boston Bruins to their first Stanley Cup in 29 years when they won the championship in 1970.
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 Bobby Orr, Boston Bruins news, stats, history, photos and more by Orr Fan.
When Bobby was finally introduced, the Garden crowd stood and cheered for eleven minutes and would not let Mr.
Finally the noise subsided and the #4 was raised to the rafters while Bobby and his family looked on.
Bobby Orr today, spends the majority of his time helping charities throughout Canada and the USA.
www.orrfan.com   (238 words)

  
 NSHL - Bobby Orr
People would often tell Bobby not to sacrifice his body, because his knees couldn't handle the punishment, and he was good enough to play without that abuse.
Almost without question it was Bobby Orr's overtime goal that won the final game of the playoffs and brought the Cup back to Beantown for the first time in 29 years.
Bobby Orr was largely instrumental in the revolutionization of hockey.
www.nshl.com /hall/orr.html   (1341 words)

  
 Bobby Orr -Boston Bruins #4
Bobby Orr passes to #16 Derek Sanderson(out of the picture) behind the net, goes to the front, Sanderson passes the puck and Orr scores the coolest goal in modern NHL history, beating veteran Glenn Hall of the St. Louis Blues in overtime.
Bobby Orr spotted in Parry Sound at his annual golf tournament.
If there's one player that went betond setting NHL records and changed the game itself, Bobby Orr was the pioneer and Gretzky was one of the many beneficiaries.
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 HHOF Time Capsule - The 60s - Great Moments - Orr Scores 21st Goal
In 1968-69, in only his third season, Bobby Orr set a record for defencemen with his 21
Orr scored 33 the next year, 37 in each of the next two seasons, and 46 just three years later.
The most prolific goal-scorer from the blueline in the history of the game when he retired, Orr finished with 270 in just 657 career games.
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 Chevrolet S&F Hockey Bobby Orr on gmcanada.com.
When Bobby Orr was growing up in Parry Sound, Ontario, playing hockey had little to do with accolades and awards.
Expansion between the present and 1966 – Orr's first year in the league – has been tremendous, from six teams to 30, with franchises implanted and plucked from more than 40 cities along the way.
Though Orr isn't disappointed by the benefits that the league has enjoyed-many of which are indebted to on-ice contributions like his-he's quick to point out the flaw in its success: Kids are approaching hockey with their focus in the wrong place, and it seems that they are being encouraged to do so.
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 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr's name is indelibly linked with the Boston Bruins as their legendary #4.
Orr won the Calder Trophy as top rookie for the 1966-67 season and, beginning with the 1967-68 season, he won the James Norris Trophy for the NHL's top defenseman for a record eight years in a row.
On January 9, 1979, Orr's #4 was lifted to the rafters at the Boston Garden.
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 Bobby Orr - Reviews on RateItAll
Orr is in a class all by himself.
bobby orr was the greatest and he didn't even hit his prime years.
Bobby Orr was without a doubt one of the true greats of the NHL.
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 AllSports' NHL News - Remembering #4, Bobby Orr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Moreover, Bobby chose Boston because he thought they were a team of the future.
Orr later won the Heart Trophy 3 times and won both the Conn Smythe Trophy with the Stanley Cup ring in 1972.
Orr missed most of the 1975-76 season and his carrer was coming to an end.
www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=30470   (692 words)

  
 NHL2 - Fantasy Hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
This is awarded at the end of each season to the team that advances to 'The Stan Lee Cup' finals, as a result of being the 'Roslaniec Conference' champions.
This is awarded at the end of each season to the team with the goaltender, or tandem, with the fewest goals against it during the regular season.
If there are any awards, or trophies, you would like to see in NHL2, don't hesitate to notify the Commissioner.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Bobby Orr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
MSN Encarta - Search View - Bobby Orr
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He signed with the Chicago Blackhawks, but his injured knee prevented him from being effective.
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 National Hockey League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Calder Memorial Trophy wird dem besten Liganeuling ("Rookie of the year") verliehen, der mindestens die Hälfte aller Spiele (41) bestritten haben muss.
Hart Memorial Trophy wird dem wertvollstem Spieler der regulären Saison verliehen.
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy wird an den Spieler der NHL verliehen, der einen hohen sportlichen Standard nachweisen konnte.
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 Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr - Orr, Bobby (Robert Orr), 1948–, Canadian hockey player.
Orr, Bobby - Orr, Bobby hockey Birthplace: Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada Born: 3/20/48 Information Please®...
TRUE ORIGINAL; As the first offensive defenseman, Bobby Orr changed the game of hockey.
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