Bobby Orr ESPN Doc. part 1

[@msmith5121]

The scoring record for a defenseman was 59 points....when Orr broke the record he scored 139 points and still won best defenseman in the NHL the same year. Think about that for a while... and then consider the fact that he won the scoring title twice...while still winning the best defenseman award in the NHL the same year he won the scoring title. And last, at 22 years old, he won all 4 major NHL awards at seasons end. That had never been done before and 50+ years later, that has never been duplicated. There is no conversation or debate...no other opinions that are valid....there is only one Bobby Orr...and there will never be another. The best the game has ever seen or ever will see.

[@buscem00]

Well said !

[@theunknown4570]

I couldn't have said it better. I wouldn't try because that's a lot. However I couldn't have said it better nonetheless

[@rolling1863]

Actually, when he broke it, in 69-70, he scored 120 pts. He won the scoring title. He scored 139 pts the next season 70-71 Esposito had 152 pts

[@msmith5121]

@@rolling1863 Regardless ...the point is that the record was 59...and he doubled it. Never seen before in any sport in the history of sports.

[@September2004]

@@rolling1863 No, actually he broke it the year *before* that with 64 points.

[@cindyallcott905]

Bobby Orr what a gentleman, soft spoken, humble and a great player. Saw him in London Bruin training camp.

[@contrarian23]

There is Bobby Orr...and then there is everyone else. When you combine his utter dominance with the myriad ways he changed the game, these is no question: Orr is the GOAT. Everyone else is in the race for #2.

[@msmith5121]

Ecactly...and absolutely!

[@kodalycat906]

I'm a hardcore Habs fan for 58 yrs and it's clear to me that is a material fact. And the fact that he performed at that dominating, game changing level for 6 of his 8 seasons on essentially only one good knee seals the deal. Clarke said it best in one of these types of interviews re: Canada Cup in the late '70's, in overcoming great pain and limitations on only one rapidly declining "good" knee, that Orr was better than all of us.

[@user-ye3ci5yb7v]

i think gretzky is still standing at centre ice waiting for a bus...bobby orr just flew by gretzky left wayne standing there////////hey wayne u missed your bus;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;bobby orr was crippled by a bunch of cowards who skated like donkeys/////////////to this day it still hurts knowing them cowards destroyed the most exciting athlete in all of sports///bobby orr you are the goat of all sports///////////hey bobby its true you the greatest athlete ever born//////////// id be scared silly if i was born to be the greatest of all of the rest////////////never seen something so amazing in all of my life///////

[@jeffreyg4626]

@@user-ye3ci5yb7v Huh? 🤔

[@williamlacombe8958]

I got to see it all .i feel so lucky to have witnessed orr

[@dm19609721]

Orr played 40 years in his 10 yr career.....he was like watching a ballet dancer fly!

[@user-ye3ci5yb7v]

bobby clarke had no teeth cuz bobby orr flew right pass ed clarke and the wind orr created blew out clarks teeth///////////the flyers teams were a bunch of cowards///////

[@millwrightkadervis]

I was a Worcester Mass kid and watching him on channel 38 was the highlight of hockey season. He was so good. Magical.

[@matt75hooper]

Orr controlled all three zones of the rink with complete dominance. You had to be there. There was no dump & chase. You played 'keep away' until you got a good shot on net. I can not do justice to describing how long Orr had the puck on his blade every single game. It was amazing. I say this - in today's space age skates using these new featherlite nylon gloves & one piece Howitzer like sticks- Orr would be a human highlight reel every night.

[@user-ye3ci5yb7v]

once bobby orr learned to skate with these newer skates...he would be even scarier on ice//////////but i think the skates he played with on that pond in parry sound are the most prized possession in all of sports/////////////i wonder if he still has all his childhood pair of skates///////////to bad his parents never recorded orr playing shinny hockey on pary sound ice pond..how wonderful that would be to see the greatest hockey player on ice at the age of look at me im bobby orr i gonna be the greates player ever/////////

[@stephenswanson7908]

I Thank God I was Able to see Bobby off play hockey I was 8 years old when they won the cup in 1970 and even at that age u just knew he was special , just a class act and in my opinion the best that ever played the game , he had an unmistakable annoitting to play the game , God blessed him with tremendous abilities thank you Lord Jesus for blessing us with Bobby Orr

[@user-ye3ci5yb7v]

after so many years we come to youtube lookin up a bobby orr video//thats cuz we will never stop loving bobby orr...even when i see him in interviews on youtube vids i begin to tingle with goosebumps///////bobby orr is my larry bird and michael jordan is another guys bobby orr///////////orr bird jordan the 3 kings of bethlehem////////god we praise u for giving us the 3 kings///////////////

[@edandkarendamadio4108]

Orr was simply the best ever, and it was a shame he was only able to play 10 years.

[@dustylover100]

He was an offensive juggernaut but I don't ever recall him out of position.

[@dustylover100]

And he did all of this on bad knees.

[@MegaMma4life]

The greatest hockey player the game has ever seen. The gap is not measurable

[@Bradydog-in7ut]

Sad thing about those who never saw him play is they will never really know how good he was on the defensive end of the ice.Someone needs to go through the archive and make a video of all the blocked shots and breaking up plays. One night Boston pulled their goaltender and the opposing team was coming in on a two on one. Orr stopped the puck from going in Boston’s empty net..,,he was that good.

[@drobson8004]

A 12 cylinder Porsche? Sorry for being an ass, I just couldn't resist.😮

[@johnhaggerty1907]

When you talk Boston and the 4 sports nothin gets better then ORR,BIRD,WILLIAMS AND BRADY.

[@contrarian23]

Orr played 9 full seasons. His rookie season he was ROY, 3rd best defenseman, 2nd-team All star, and 6th in the MVP voting. In his subsequent 8 seasons, we was the best defenseman EVERY season, he was a 1st-team All star EVERY season, he was MVP 3 times, top 4 in MVP EVERY season, playoff MVP twice, scoring leader twice... no player ever had as much hardware in such a concentrated period of time. He was THE dominant hockey player, on both sides of the ice, for 9 consecutive seasons. Had he remained healthy, there would be no question who the greatest player ever was.

[@kodalycat906]

All on one good knee (after year 2) and that one good knee getting progressively worse each season. For me, that is the most remarkable thing, unlike any other potential GOAT. Clarke said it best, I think, in one of these types of interviews when he described Orr's overcoming of great pain and limitation during the Canada Cup series in the '70's: He was better than all of us.

[@user-ye3ci5yb7v]

gretzky still waiting for his bus at center ice/////////bobby orr never waited for no bus ;;;;;;;;;;;bobby orr was the bus/////////////the greatest bus ride ever////////////

[@msmith5121]

and by the way...when have you ever heard of a pro sports prospect being discovered at 12 years old? And then signed at 14 and entering the league at the highest level at 18. Unbelievable and unprecedented.

[@tomtalley2192]

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm heading to my local Saturn dealer today!

[@sarkisiangeorge]

In my day, I like to think of my skating as pretty good. As i have grown older, I watch youtube videos. I try to analyze why some skaters are so much better and faster than others. Why was Bobby Orr so fast? Was it the amount of blade that actually touched the ice? Was it his push off? If you look at his turns in this video he seems to be able to angle his body closer to the ice than most skaters. Did he have great flexibility in his ankles? If you are trying to learn how to skate, you should watch Bobby Orr. You won't get to be Bobby Orr but you will have a good teacher.

[@user-ye3ci5yb7v]

i use to play at outdoor rinks in winter i would wear bobby orr hockey jersey i skated like a donkey..but orr is my idol///i could never dig skate blade into the ice and master the art of skating i would trip as soon as i had to dig skate into the ice//i had no sense of secure way of making my skate carve into the ice without ankles bending and falling down//////////i guess if u go to a hockey school they show u how to skate properly //////////bobby orr was like a figure skater on ice with hockey stick in his hand//he turned into a figure skater when boston was killing off a penalty///look at his turns he would turn to his left skate back to his goalie than turn to his right with his body angled down almost touchin the ice//its like his blades were sharpened to the shape of the letter v ,so when he turns to his left and right he leans over really low to the ice/////his skate blade probably like a thin needle in the centre////////////-maybe other players had a flat blade in centre////and skate on the edge//////////bobby orr skated on no edges////////////he skated above theice surface he floated above the ice surface ;;;;;;;;;it was like jesus walkin on water..bobby orr/////////////

[@glennwilliamson889]

Bobby Orr has fallen and can’t get up!!!! Wait….

[@Dennis-nm1jm]

People talk about how other people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Bobby Orr was born with skates on his feet.

[@tomgenerazio]

the commercials are so bad they're great !!

[@drobson8004]

Specifically, what's so bad about them?

[@yaniktydetmer4153]

Bobby

[@drobson8004]

Here's another fact. Those Islanders never faced a prime Bernie Parent. Also, those Islander teams were a better overall team than those Bruin teams; the Flyers never played the Bruins in the '75 playoffs.

[@sarkisiangeorge]

I wish Bobby Orr played his career on the European Sized rinks. In theory he would have had more room to skate and hopefully less knee injuries.

[@user-ye3ci5yb7v]

it would be no fair..bobby clarke and the other cowards in hockey would never corner bobby orr so they could bust up his kneees////////bobby orr would score over 100 goals every year//////he already had 46 goals in one season ////////////some say bobby orr isnt the greatest they say he played against a bunch of plumbers///////////bobby orr turned all them bums into plumbers////////none of them bums deserved to be on the same ice as bobby orr//////////////

[@mr.xblade]

So overrated.... Really good player on a really good team with other superstars surrounding him..

[@msmith5121]

So ignorant a statement that I can't really even reply. Wow.

[@BruceAChristie]

I prefer to listen to top players who played with and against Orr. Clarke, Savard, Robinson, Hull, and many others - including the players on the Bruins - said that Orr was in a class all by himself. Hockey is a team game but I have never seen one player make so much difference in the outcome of a game. Certainly, hot goaltending can influence games but Orr’s constant skill and effort was unparalleled.

[@Dennis-nm1jm]

That's pretty funny overrated. When Phil Esposito was with the Chicago Blackhawks he had average 27 goals a season. With the Boston bruins Phil Esposito average 57 goals a year.

[@ghytgb]

I’d say Coffey and Neidemayer modeled their playing style after Potvin as he did perfect Doug Harvey’s rushing defenseman style better then Orr ever did. Orr couldn’t beat the Habs and the Flyers but Potvin did it with such ease. It took a Dynasty Oilers team to stop Potvin but an expansion era Flyers team was able to bully Orr out of two easy cup wins. It’s just a fact.

[@cannon29]

AHHHH hahahahahahaha

[@vitalyjohnson3514]

Rudiculous. U r a troll.

[@msmith5121]

That's just an ignorant comment...

[@michaelmachado2572]

Lmmfao. Yea,,, okay. Go smoke some more crack.

[@jimbrace4671]

Potvin started with the Islanders in 1973. From 1973 to 1980, the Cup was won, in this order by: Mtl, Flyers, Flyers,, Mtl, Mtl, Mtl, Mtl. So, for the first 7+ years of his career, Potvin didn't "beat the Habs and Flyers with such ease" because he didn't beat them at all, he won no Stanley Cups during those years. It was the Habs that defeated the Flyers during their 'BroadStreet Bullies' prime years, not the Islanders. The Islanders started their 4-year dynasty of winning the Cup in 1980/81 after the preceding 4 year domination by the Habs, which included one year in which the Habs lost only 8 games all year including losing only 1 game at home. So, Potvin and the Islanders did no beating the Habs at all during those years, let alone beating them with ease. The most significant of the glaring errors in your preposterous claim is an error of omission. The provable fact is that Potvin had a far superior team around him than Orr did. Orr made every one of his teammates better. Potvin's teammates made him better. Orr had one bonafide superstar on his team: Phil Esposito., and Esposito's career would have been a fraction of it what it turned out to be had he not played with Orr. The Islanders during Potvin's years had future Hall of Famers: Bryan Trottier, Mike Bossy, Billy Smith and Clark Gillies. They also had all stars like Pat Lafontaine, Bob Nystrom and great role players like Butch Goring and John Tonelli and Al Arbour was one of the all-time great coaches in the NHL. Potvin was a great player and a Hall of Famer. But he sure as hell never" beat anyone with ease". He was fortunate to be on a great team with several Hall of Famers, including a Hal of Fame Goalie and a Hall of Fame coach. The Islanders only started winning Cups after Dryden retired and Lafleur spent much of the 1980/81 season injured after a car crash. Starting at that point in time the Islanders began an impressive dynasty of 4 straight Stanley Cups, ;led by Trottier and Bossy and with Smith in nets. Potvin was a strong contributor, but he never came close to leading the Islanders the way that Orr lead the Bruins. Finally, if you can handle it, I'll let you search for the KZbin video in which Potvin describes why Bobby Orr was the greatest defenseman in NHL history. Enjoy! There are some good books that talk about how the Habs 'saved hockey' from the goon days of the Flyers, by defeating them soundly including Larry Robinson pummeling Dave 'the Hammer' Schulz, and winning the final 4 Cups of the 70's. Up until then, the Islanders (and Potvin), along with everyone else in the NHL except for the Canadiens , got beaten and bullied by the Flyers. It's also hilarious and transparently shameful how you refer to the Flyers as "expansion era" but then don't refer to the Oilers as "expansion era", a weasley, deceptive inconsistency! hahahahhaaha - BUSTED ON ALL COUNTS !! HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@freddyfurrah3789]

BOBBY ORR IS THE GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYER OF ALL TIME