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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Another great Bobby Off story....
The St Louis Blues defenseman (Noel Picard) whose stick helped launch Orr airborne on THAT goal had a daughter who went to college in Boston. Orr looked after her and helped her thru some financial difficulties. Picard did not ask for this help. Orr just did it when he found out his daughter was there. Nobody would know about this if Picard didn't tell the story in an interview many years later.
The framed photo behind Picard in his home during that interview? Yup, a photo of that famous goal signed personally to Noel. Orr's opponents universally loved the guy.
Orr is the superstar we all wish our 'guy' to be. Williams, Russell, Bird and Brady each gave it their all while they played here and not a one of them owed us a damn thing when they said their goodbyes and rode off into the sunset. Orr not only continues to pay his blessings forward in countless unsung ways but he does it here. He isn't in Florida, LA or some gated retirement community in Arizona, he walks our streets as one of us. It's our spaghetti dinner fundraisers and youth hockey benefits he graces and our hospitals he still quietly visits. Even though he's far too nice a guy to ever be a true Masshole, he chooses to be one of us.
That is why he is OUR Bobby, THE Boston Superstar, our sports icon. The one our community loves that actually loves us back.
Beautifully.Greatest player who played all 200ft.
He was one tough son of a ***** too.
Keith Magneson would get his clock cleaned by Orr one fight after another. So one offseason Magneson took boxing kessons. Orr kicked his ass again
When I travel always seek out old bars in better neighborhoods, nothing quite like sitting at a bar like that with my wife and having a draft, usually sports on the TV.. hit run of curling for a while.God help me I do love old gin mills, dives and bike bars. Especially where the TV is the only new thing in the joint for the past 30 years and the B's are on it
Orr could have played any position but Goalie.No ****. Anybody and everybody knew the value of having Orr on defense. Orr would have destroyed Gretzky in their primes.
Orr redifined the game. Gretzky took benefit for it.
I posted this in the Bruins forum.No ****. Anybody and everybody knew the value of having Orr on defense. Orr would have destroyed Gretzky in their primes.
Orr redifined the game. Gretzky took benefit for it.
I named my first son born in 1973, Derek.. homage to that great player.Orr was not only a one man intervention squad for Derek Sanderson but he paid for multiple rehab stints for Bruins trainer John "Frosty" Forrestal. When Forrestal was homeless and dying of brain cancer, Orr took him in and turned his own home into Frosty's hospice for the last year of his life.
Orr never tells those stories but Sanderson sure does, every chance he gets he tells anyone that'll listen "Bobby saved my life"
Orr was as great a human being as he was a hockey player. We used to go up to Montreal and stay at the same hotel as the Bruins and got to see them all up close.On some documentary some years ago, I believe it was Gerry Cheevers who recalled that after playing a poor game the night before, he was feeling bummed during the following day's practice so Orr came up to him in the locker room afterwards and said: C'mon let's go visit some kids... And off they went, just like that...Can you imagine anyone ass-ociated with the Dead Sux or Smeltics doing that today?
Also checked a broke and broken Derek Sanderson into rehab and saved his life!
Another one who should have NEVER left Boston!
Greatest EVAH!
Happy Bday Bobby
and for those of you who used to watch the B's on Channel 38......
My memory of those years was that Boston was more of a hockey town but I was like you and enjoyed basketball more. That lack of interest kind of helped me get into games.Growing up in Boston in the 60's, I was a huge football,basketball,baseball and boxing fan- both to watch and participate in. Hockey- not so much. Bobby Orr changed that. He made me watch hockey. I acquired a greater appreciation for the game. Once he was gone,my interest level fell off and now I only watch the B's if they're in the playoffs.
But that shows the greatness of Orr.
And I was well-aware of how classy a human being he was. And still is.GOAT.