Best years of my life was playing pond hockey all day after school until dark. Then going home and watching the B's on Channel 38 with Bobby Orr giving fans a reason to watch in awe with every highlight goal.Those days in the early 70's were the best times to be a Bruins fan, and of course, a Bobby Orr fan.
the most beautiful thing in all of sports to ever see bobby orr crossover to his left and than keep circling all the way back towards his goalie circle his own net a couple of times than break up ice and start it all over again....never see this before a class all his oen.no one even close to his genius abilities////once in a lifetime thing of beauty//that number 4 jersey is the most beautiful jersey in all of sports it is show casing the greatest hockey player ever born..........
I've seen all of the greats live and on tv over the years, except for Howe. Gretzky's sense, vision and passing can never be duplicated. Orr was great. Lemieux was great. The eras were different. Phil Esposito who played with Orr and against Howe said it best. There is no more intelligent player than Gretzky; no one passes the puck better, no one sees the ice better.
Those 10 games with Brad Park in the 75-76 season are precious and (too) few. Seeing some of that very limited footage in this video is very appreciated. Thank you for putting this together.
Gretzky, Howe, Lemieux, Jagr, Sederov, Crosby, etc....it really doesn't matter....none of them will ever come close to the talent level that Bobby Orr was gifted with and brought to the NHL in his short career. He stands alone and always will...
He was a Defense man playing offensive, they don’t show how many times he got burned making that rush. They only show the goals . And Gordie Howe is the best ever. 20 years straight making the top 5 in points. Never will anyone come close to that! And he was an all around player. Played Defense
I am so glad to find this video of Orr. I watched him as a kid, in Canada he was revered.We all would emulate other players of the day, but never Bobby. His moves were beyond belief. On the ice surface he could make any opposing player look foolish. Grapes is right...he is a once in a lifetime player.
TY for putting all this together. SO many memories, names forgotten not only in B's lore, Leduc, Sims, Edestrand Brooks. But so many of the old great NHLers. Binkley, Crozier, Maniago, Meloche, Rutherford. Even the old Refs and linesmen. And of course seeing the grand old gal The Garden rockin and rollin is always a joy. I all but grew up in that building watching these guys work their own special brand of magic. The Canadiens can have their 24 Cups. Its an impressive feat, but one accomplished over the long history of the Club witnessed by far too many. That doesn't compare to the much smaller number of us who get to carry the memories of those 10 magical years in Boston when Bobby and the Big Bad Bruins made watching hockey so much MORE than a mere spectator sport. It was a way of life for us all year long not just during the season. I dont know if those guys will ever really know how much joy they brought us simply by being The Bruins. But it WAS something!
What I’d like to know is who had access to all these old Bruins games to make these awesome Orr videos! I’d love to watch some of these old games once more.
What can i say Robert Gordon Orr is the New England cure for cabin fevah. Wicked Pissah. God Bless that good man. For all the magic he did on the ice. He is one of God's good angels. Your faith in human natural gets a boost when you see the love his teammates had for him. Not that he needed help. He cleaned some clocks in his break in to the elite NHL hard nosed players.
12:45...the slow motion replay shows just how astonishing this play was, even more than it looked in real-time...watch him lying down, sliding across the ice. He tries to control the puck with the stick the first time, can't reach it because of the tight angle so he nudges it with his elbow to the perfect position where he can slide it across the ice. There is no question every motion of that play was intentional. Just incredible body control and sense of the rink and where his teammates would be. Amazing. This kind of thing is why those of us who saw him still think Bobby Orr is the greatest defenseman ever, and possibly the greatest hockey player period.
Only part way in, and it's already of the top 10 things I've ever seen on TH-cam. Always remember his matter of fact reaction after scoring...a lot like one of my other favorites, Barry Sanders.
In the end when Bobby was playing on half a leg. You noticed that other teams left him be in the fighting and cheap shots. Still he led the league in scoring i think his last two years. Just watched a 251 goal marathon of Bobby. The best is how he bowed his head after every goal, save one on May 10th, 1970. Bobby paying homage to the greats before him and the kids back on Parry Sound Bay ice.
1:13 One handed goal while falling 3:40 Bobby Orr dangles 8:31 Orr stopped by Dryden 9:41 Orr scores empty net from almost 200 ft 12:12 Bobby Orr incredible no look pass on his back 15:27 Bobby goes through 3 players to score (100 pts of the season) 16:05 amazing save by Orr 18:36 Bobby Orr bomb 21:46 Orr goes through the defense and completes with a no look pass to Esposito 22:36 One handed pass 26:41 Great defensive play 32:12 Orr goes around the net to score 34:59 Orr takes a hard hit 35:32 Orr blocking shots 36:24 Orr pass while lying down 39:54 Orr takes a nasty fall 51:27 What a save by Orr 51:44 Another incredible save 54:23 slick no look pass 58:17 great block 58:32 basketball shot into empty net 1:01:53 Orr splits the defense 1:04:19 Bobby Orr defending 1:06:37 Orr blocks 2 empty net goals
Just so amazing, he could do it all! He would have my Mom (a Ranger Fan) screaming at the tv especially the way he was able to rag the puck on penalty kills. My Mom would yell, "Can't anybody hit him?" 😂
At 10:48 that's the great Jacques Plante, 44 years old, who played the final 8 games of his NHL career with the Bruins late in the 72-73 season. What a play....
I believe Orr/Park played 10 games together. Orr's passing ability still made him an effective dman despite playing on one leg. Watching the reaction of the B's bench in what was Nov 1975 it seems the players knew he was near the end and reveled in his play.
@@5intheholeTrue, after Park had written "Play The Man" he had few friends on the B's but after the trade you have to put that aside. In Cherry's book "Grapes" He recalled Park's first shit and worried that the Garden faithful would never leave him alone . Cherry recalled it was all quiet till someone in the rafters shouted "Hey Pahk, Welcome The Gahden". and Cherry said he knew it would be ok from there.
Me and my dad were at the game on the first video. We were 11 rows behind the goal. In fact in that game orr took a shot from the point and was tipped just missing my head and hitting the lady behind me in the ribs. I asked but she didn't give me the puck. The only time I saw orr play and I remember it like yesterday.
Add the end of this tape Orr briefly plays with Park & Ratelle. His speed is still amazing! He was definitely shooting his knee up, so he could keep putting a show on for all hockey fans. What heart this guy had.
Anthony Paradis -no, he had a very high tolerance for pain. Orr could have extended his career by resting his left knee but that would have ment missing chunks of games during the regular season...something Orr would never do.The question would be did he ever take pain killers to continue playing?
@@5inthehole well I don't know what u consider chunks of games but I think his total for the last 2 yrs 17 games played .Bobby should have retired 5 yrs previous .you can see it in his skating he was favoring his left knee his whole career
also fascinating seeing this tape in that some of these teams Orr played against don't even exist anymore--Atlanta Flames (now in Calgary), California Seals, Minnesota North Stars (now in Dallas)
In 2005 to increase scoring the NHL changed the rules so now a 2 line pass is NOT offside. In the 18 seasons since 2005 how many players have scored more points than Orr’s 139 in 1971? Only 1, Conner McDavid this year. I believe if Bobby Orr was playing today he’d win the Art Ross, Hart and Norris every year.
8:06 Noel Picard giveaway leads to Orr goal and you can see how angry he is at himself at the end of the play. It was Noel Picards stick that launched Orr into the air (and into hockey immortality) a few years before this.
Watch the Leafs Clip at 42:02 after the Bruins Score the LEAF organist plays the Bruins entry music that John Kiley used to play in The Garden. NEVER caught that till now.
I always wondered if Bobby Orr had wished he could have started playing during the current era with all the inflated salaries--he surely would have been the highest paid player in the league (I'm also glad he was able to recover financially after the way that disgusting leach Alan Eagleson ripped him off)
Their trying to compare that young guy from Colorado to Orr this year i the playoffs he got a long ways to go to be close the the greatest Robert gorden Orr
Sometimes I wonder if one would be. Better off not seeing a Dr. Look what these"scientific" men of medicine did to Orr; they carved up his knees like it was Thanksgiving!! So much for science.....
Orr only playing his last of 10 games in 76 make little sense when you see him skating at explosive speed. as seen in his last games on the tape at the end.
So what are u saying .that's how long his injury took to heal and that's how good he was. People that didn't see his career don t understand thus guy was SUPERNATURAL. The mere suggestion that gretzky or lemeux was better is am absolute joke .
Best years of my life was playing pond hockey all day after school until dark. Then going home and watching the B's on Channel 38 with Bobby Orr giving fans a reason to watch in awe with every highlight goal.Those days in the early 70's were the best times to be a Bruins fan, and of course, a Bobby Orr fan.
If a guy like Orr played today I’d probably still be watching hockey
Greatest hockey player/athlete ever.
I followed Orr's entire career from 1966 - 1978. Nobody dominated the game of hockey like this guy did. Nobody
the most beautiful thing in all of sports to ever see bobby orr crossover to his left and than keep circling all the way back towards his goalie circle his own net a couple of times than break up ice and start it all over again....never see this before a class all his oen.no one even close to his genius abilities////once in a lifetime thing of beauty//that number 4 jersey is the most beautiful jersey in all of sports it is show casing the greatest hockey player ever born..........
The greatest, most talented athlete, any sport and from any era. He did things that are still records and will never be duplicated.
I've seen all of the greats live and on tv over the years, except for Howe. Gretzky's sense, vision and passing can never be duplicated. Orr was great. Lemieux was great. The eras were different. Phil Esposito who played with Orr and against Howe said it best. There is no more intelligent player than Gretzky; no one passes the puck better, no one sees the ice better.
I'd give that to Wilt Chamberlain. Ever seen a guy jump 7-feet? Run 300 MPH? Dominate track, basketball, volleyball.
Those 10 games with Brad Park in the 75-76 season are precious and (too) few. Seeing some of that very limited footage in this video is very appreciated. Thank you for putting this together.
I watched Bobby Orr play during the glory years in Boston (1969-1973) . He was the Secretariat of the NHL .
Secretariat and Bobby Orr , pretty good compaison and combination. They both did everything better than any of their competition.
Bobby is the greatest. I've watched him in the early seventies and then I knew nobody will ever be better
Great one,great player was fun watching in hay day
Bobby Orr - the greatest hockey player.
yup !
Whoever put together these three videos deserves sainthood!
Nobody could handle the puck like Orr. Even til this day. He makes it look easy.
The world was a better place when Bobby Orr was scoring goals.
Gretzky, Howe, Lemieux, Jagr, Sederov, Crosby, etc....it really doesn't matter....none of them will ever come close to the talent level that Bobby Orr was gifted with and brought to the NHL in his short career. He stands alone and always will...
He was a Defense man playing offensive, they don’t show how many times he got burned making that rush. They only show the goals . And Gordie Howe is the best ever. 20 years straight making the top 5 in points. Never will anyone come close to that! And he was an all around player. Played Defense
He dominated both ends of the ice.i remember him killing penalties by himself by holding onto the puck for 2 minutes! Simply the best ever!
Orr was beyond NHL capable , period
I am so glad to find this video of Orr. I watched him as a kid, in Canada he was revered.We all would emulate other players of the day, but never Bobby. His moves were beyond belief.
On the ice surface he could make any opposing player look foolish.
Grapes is right...he is a once in a lifetime player.
Bobby is the most natural hockey player I have seen. His movements around the ice surface are so smooth, it looks rehearsed. It wasn't, The Natural.
He could skate like a ballerina and stickhandle around defensemen like they were statues.
ahhh... keep em coming! Can watch #4 all day long!
Wish there were more video of Bobby playing those 10 games with Park and Ratelle
TY for putting all this together. SO many memories, names forgotten not only in B's lore, Leduc, Sims, Edestrand Brooks. But so many of the old great NHLers. Binkley, Crozier, Maniago, Meloche, Rutherford. Even the old Refs and linesmen. And of course seeing the grand old gal The Garden rockin and rollin is always a joy. I all but grew up in that building watching these guys work their own special brand of magic. The Canadiens can have their 24 Cups. Its an impressive feat, but one accomplished over the long history of the Club witnessed by far too many. That doesn't compare to the much smaller number of us who get to carry the memories of those 10 magical years in Boston when Bobby and the Big Bad Bruins made watching hockey so much MORE than a mere spectator sport. It was a way of life for us all year long not just during the season. I dont know if those guys will ever really know how much joy they brought us simply by being The Bruins. But it WAS something!
No moronic celebrations, just gettin' 'er done as if you've been there before! Poetry in motion!!!
Thank you Jeff!! At the end his last season with Boston he played 10 games and had 18 points!! Orr...The BEST EVER!!
Simply the best ever. Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe are all great but Orr looks like he’s playing against 12 year old kids.
What I’d like to know is who had access to all these old Bruins games to make these awesome Orr videos! I’d love to watch some of these old games once more.
What can i say Robert Gordon Orr is the New England cure for cabin fevah. Wicked Pissah. God Bless that good man. For all the magic he did on the ice. He is one of God's good angels. Your faith in human natural gets a boost when you see the love his teammates had for him. Not that he needed help. He cleaned some clocks in his break in to the elite NHL hard nosed players.
12:45...the slow motion replay shows just how astonishing this play was, even more than it looked in real-time...watch him lying down, sliding across the ice. He tries to control the puck with the stick the first time, can't reach it because of the tight angle so he nudges it with his elbow to the perfect position where he can slide it across the ice. There is no question every motion of that play was intentional. Just incredible body control and sense of the rink and where his teammates would be. Amazing. This kind of thing is why those of us who saw him still think Bobby Orr is the greatest defenseman ever, and possibly the greatest hockey player period.
Many records he set...well, they still remain today and may never be broken. In fact I know a few will not ever be broken...
Only part way in, and it's already of the top 10 things I've ever seen on TH-cam. Always remember his matter of fact reaction after scoring...a lot like one of my other favorites, Barry Sanders.
thanks for sharing Jeff...some great rare footage probably not too many copies of this stuff left in existence
In the end when Bobby was playing on half a leg. You noticed that other teams left him be in the fighting and cheap shots. Still he led the league in scoring i think his last two years. Just watched a 251 goal marathon of Bobby. The best is how he bowed his head after every goal, save one on May 10th, 1970. Bobby paying homage to the greats before him and the kids back on Parry Sound Bay ice.
Thanks for posting these. Great memories.
1974 75 was Orr's last great season
hey Jeff. Vaughn Pardy. long time no talk to. Glad to see these are on youtube for everyone to enjoy! Thanks.
1:13 One handed goal while falling
3:40 Bobby Orr dangles
8:31 Orr stopped by Dryden
9:41 Orr scores empty net from almost 200 ft
12:12 Bobby Orr incredible no look pass on his back
15:27 Bobby goes through 3 players to score (100 pts of the season)
16:05 amazing save by Orr
18:36 Bobby Orr bomb
21:46 Orr goes through the defense and completes with a no look pass to Esposito
22:36 One handed pass
26:41 Great defensive play
32:12 Orr goes around the net to score
34:59 Orr takes a hard hit
35:32 Orr blocking shots
36:24 Orr pass while lying down
39:54 Orr takes a nasty fall
51:27 What a save by Orr
51:44 Another incredible save
54:23 slick no look pass
58:17 great block
58:32 basketball shot into empty net
1:01:53 Orr splits the defense
1:04:19 Bobby Orr defending
1:06:37 Orr blocks 2 empty net goals
Just so amazing, he could do it all!
He would have my Mom (a Ranger Fan) screaming at the tv especially the way he was able to rag the puck on penalty kills. My Mom would yell, "Can't anybody hit him?" 😂
Man, this is so kind of you to go thru the pains of putting these videos together. Thanks for doing this.
Tremendous job of editing and putting this all up on You Tube Jeff, Kudo's!!!!
BEST EVER NOT EVEN CLOSE
At 10:48 that's the great Jacques Plante, 44 years old, who played the final 8 games of his NHL career with the Bruins late in the 72-73 season. What a play....
I believe Orr/Park played 10 games together. Orr's passing ability still made him an effective dman despite playing on one leg. Watching the reaction of the B's bench in what was Nov 1975 it seems the players knew he was near the end and reveled in his play.
10 games and I believe 10 points as well PPG for those two. God what MIGHT have been.
rf396 -Must have been weird for Park as there was no love lost between Park and Orr.
@@5intheholeTrue, after Park had written "Play The Man" he had few friends on the B's but after the trade you have to put that aside. In Cherry's book "Grapes" He recalled Park's first shit and worried that the Garden faithful would never leave him alone . Cherry recalled it was all quiet till someone in the rafters shouted "Hey Pahk, Welcome The Gahden". and Cherry said he knew it would be ok from there.
i like that backhander after faking a wind up slap shot ... never seen a fake like that before
Thank you,, I missed most of his career
Me and my dad were at the game on the first video. We were 11 rows behind the goal. In fact in that game orr took a shot from the point and was tipped just missing my head and hitting the lady behind me in the ribs. I asked but she didn't give me the puck. The only time I saw orr play and I remember it like yesterday.
amazing speed with one healthy leg.
You could see Orr lacked his exploseviness
which was to be expected.
Add the end of this tape Orr briefly plays with Park & Ratelle. His speed is still amazing! He was definitely shooting his knee up, so he could keep putting a show on for all hockey fans. What heart this guy had.
is the documented that he was shooting his knee up to keep playing?
Anthony Paradis -no, he had a very high tolerance for pain. Orr could have extended his career by resting his left knee but that would have ment missing chunks of games during the regular season...something Orr would never do.The question would be did he ever take pain killers to continue playing?
@@bestcellphonedeal as I recall he was getting cortisone shots occasionally.but they never lasted very long it seems.
@@bestcellphonedeal any relation???
@@5inthehole well I don't know what u consider chunks of games but I think his total for the last 2 yrs 17 games played .Bobby should have retired 5 yrs previous .you can see it in his skating he was favoring his left knee his whole career
this is GOLD
Можно бесконечно смотреть: как горит огонь, как течёт вода и как забивает Бобби Орр
also fascinating seeing this tape in that some of these teams Orr played against don't even exist anymore--Atlanta Flames (now in Calgary), California Seals, Minnesota North Stars (now in Dallas)
The only team that doesn't exist are the Seals the rest are still playing
This is so much better when you watch it at 1.25x the speed. Makes it almost enjoyable.
BOBBY ORR made Espo look good
In part 3 of Bobby Orr's goals they're showing more of the hits he is taking
In 2005 to increase scoring the NHL changed the rules so now a 2 line pass is NOT offside. In the 18 seasons since 2005 how many players have scored more points than Orr’s 139 in 1971? Only 1, Conner McDavid this year. I believe if Bobby Orr was playing today he’d win the Art Ross, Hart and Norris every year.
8:06 Noel Picard giveaway leads to Orr goal and you can see how angry he is at himself at the end of the play. It was Noel Picards stick that launched Orr into the air (and into hockey immortality) a few years before this.
❤❤ORR❤❤
And to think Toronto did not want Orr.
Bobby Orr #4 just means he always has four defenders on him so everything else is open.
Still watching Terrence O'Reilly skating up to Bobby after a goal was nice.
Watch the Leafs Clip at 42:02 after the Bruins Score the LEAF organist plays the Bruins entry music that John Kiley used to play in The Garden. NEVER caught that till now.
Btw brad park was a really good playet
I dont know how he does it i cant
4:42 A typical Phil Esposito goal.
0.40 no one does that but Orr
I always wondered if Bobby Orr had wished he could have started playing during the current era with all the inflated salaries--he surely would have been the highest paid player in the league (I'm also glad he was able to recover financially after the way that disgusting leach Alan Eagleson ripped him off)
Their trying to compare that young guy from Colorado to Orr this year i the playoffs he got a long ways to go to be close the the greatest Robert gorden Orr
How could you stop these guys?
When you watch Orr now you realize he had no problem charging goalies. ...
Wayne Gretzky may be the second greatest player in the history of hockey. But not him nor anyone else is higher than that.
Rare
5:40 imagine booing bobby orr....
You can compare me to Bobby Orr because I was the opposite of him
This is cheating. When Orr is stickhandling through the other team and scoring all these goals how come the other team is not wearing skates?
Sometimes I wonder if one would be. Better off not seeing a Dr. Look what these"scientific" men of medicine did to Orr; they carved up his knees like it was Thanksgiving!! So much for science.....
There is no questioning Bobby Orr's greatness, but most of the goaltending in the 70s was absolutely atrocious. Simply overmatched in most cases.
I don't like those Bruins uniforms with the bright numbers on the back of their jerseys Weird looking!
Orr only playing his last of 10 games in 76 make little sense when you see him skating at explosive speed. as seen in his last games on the tape at the end.
So what are u saying .that's how long his injury took to heal and that's how good he was. People that didn't see his career don t understand thus guy was SUPERNATURAL. The mere suggestion that gretzky or lemeux was better is am absolute joke .