Bobby Orr
Robert Gordon Orr OC is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time. Orr used his ice skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position of defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League for 12 seasons, starting with 10 with the Boston Bruins followed by two with the Chicago Black Hawks. He remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies. He holds the record for most points and assists in a single season by a Defenceman.
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Robert Gordon Orr OC is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time. Orr used his ice skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position of defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League for 12 seasons, starting with 10 with the Boston Bruins followed by two with the Chicago Black Hawks. He remains the only defenceman to have won the league scoring title with two Art Ross Trophies. He holds the record for most points and assists in a single season by a Defenceman. In 2017 Orr was named by the National Ice Hockey League as one of the “100 Greatest NHL Players” in history. He entered the player agent business in 1996 and today is president of the Orr Hockey Group agency. Since 1996, Orr has coached a team of junior hockey players in the annual CHL Top Prospects Game. He is the father of two sons and is a grandfather. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979 at age 31, the youngest to be inducted at that time. His grandfather, Robert Orr, was a top-tier soccer pro player who emigrated from Ballymena, Northern Ireland to Parry Sound early in the 20th century. His father, Doug, had once been a hockey prospect and was invited to join the Atlantic City Seagulls in 1942 but turned down the offer. Doug Orr instead joined the Royal Canadian Navy, serving during the Second World War.
He and Arva Steele had five children: Ronnie, Ronnie, Patricia, Penny and Doug, and Bobby was born on March 20, 1948. Bobby was a sick baby when he was a baby and was a survivor at St. Joseph’s Hospital, where his grandmother Elsie Joseph was a nurse. Until he was ten years old, he was able to skate faster than anyone else in the rink. He displayed his speed and skill in races around the rink and in games in the shinny division, a year after getting his first shinny. He also played his first organized hockey in 1953 at age five, in the minor squirt division. He first played as a forward but moved to defence and was encouraged to use his skating skills to control play. In 1966, he joined the Bruins, a team that had not won a Stanley Cup since 1941 and had not qualified for the playoffs since 1959. In 1976, he left Boston as a free agent to join the Black Hawks, but repeated injuries had effectively destroyed his left knee, and he retired in 1978 at age 30. He then went into business to rebuild his finances. After his hockey career, he became a well-known scout for many professional teams. He also spends time talking to and mentoring young skaters. Orr is also active in charitable works and in television commercials. He has two sons: Ronnie and Ronnie, who was born in 1948 and Ronnie Jr.
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