Bobby Orr
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- Robert Gordon Orr is a retired Canadian ice hockey player.
- A defenceman, Bobby Orr is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest hockey players of all time.
- Bobby Orr remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies and holds the record for most points and assists in a single season by a defenceman.
- Orr won three consecutive Hart Trophies as the league's most valuable player, helping Boston to three regular season first-place finishes.
- Bobby Orr was born in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.
- Orr was discovered by the Boston Bruins at a bantam tournament in Ontario, prompting the club to invest $1,000 to sponsor his team and earn his rights.
- Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson negotiated Orr's first contract with the Bruins, a $25,000 salary at a time when the typical maximum rookie salary was $8,000.
- Orr retired having scored 270 goals and 645 assists in 657 games, adding 953 penalty minutes. At the time of his retirement, he was the leading defenceman in league history in goals, assists and points, tenth overall in assists and 19th in points.
- In 1976, despite several knee operations that left him playing in severe pain, Orr was named the most valuable player in the Canada Cup international competition.
- The only players in league history to have averaged more points per game than Bobby Orr are Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Mike Bossy, all of them forwards.
- His number 4 jersey was retired by the Bruins in January 1979. At the ceremony, the crowd at Boston Garden would not stop applauding and as a result, most of the evening's program had to be scrapped at the last second due to the constant cheering.
- Bobby Orr is married to Peggy and they have two children.
- Received Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award in 1970.
- Voted the greatest athlete in Boston history in the Boston Globe newspaper's poll of New Englanders, beating out baseball and basketball stars such as Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Carl Yastrzemski and Bob Cousy.
- Voted the 2nd greatest hockey player of all time by an expert committee in 1997 by The Hockey News. Orr is behind only Wayne Gretzky and ahead of Gordie Howe as well as being named the top defenceman of all time.
