Bobby Orr Knee Injury

[hellonicetomeetyou]

Talk about how weak Gretzky all you want, but you all know that Gretzky wouldn't have gotten injured on this play because he would have passed it to the guy that's wide open in front of the net instead of try to go through the entire team.

[sexydarin1]

Two players in a row purposely tried to injure orr with knee to knee. It was deliberate.

[franco404]

this is how great Orr was..He got up and amassed 139 points and a plus 124 that season.Nobody mentions the refs arm going up signaling a penalty.

[BigsbyDude]

scumbags on that team...and another bum Stan Makita who would cut everybody with his stick work

[artistseye1]

Dirty scumbags. They were always running for his knees. It was the only way to stop him. Just a dirty shame. Orr would have won so many cups and owned so many records if they could fix knees like today. He was the best hockey player of all time. He was a rock star.

[eaglesyz]

@artistseye1 Orr's career would have lasted 10 more years if he got the protection that Wayne Gretzky got.

Orr was the only player that was strong in every aspect of the game and despite his enormous talent, his blue collar work ethic was just as good. It a shame that the rules back then allowed scumbags like Dave Schultz

to take down great players like Orr. Fred Cusik and Johnny Pearson's work in the booth supplimented days that will never be seen again in Boston.

[deepthreat]

First: That was a cheap shot and the guy who whiffed earlier was trying to do the same thing.

Two: IT was his right knee which is not the one that forced him to retire. He just got banged up a little on this play.

[sikajee5]

Fuck... Player like that... Got crashed like that... And that's why he's career ended do early... It really sucks.

[jpfinn27]

What a pussy. No one could touch Orr clean. Cheap shots like this are the reason why his career ended early

[KarmicOmen]

This hurts hearts in a big way ... to see Bobby in pain like that.

[tommyarmour986]

I keep waiting for Dave Semenko to show up and beat the crap out of anyone who touches the franchise.....Oh wait....that was Getzky's bodyguard. Orr didn't have a bodyguard. I wish he did, though because he was the best hockey player to ever lace up skates, I can tell you that for sure.

[5inthehole]

Sad thing is this wasn't even the knee that gave him most of his troubles. It was his left knee that ended his career. Other players learned it was the only way to stop him and started targeting his knees....cheap bastards!...And cost us all alot of great hockey!

[dsimon129]

wrong knee people. by orr's own admission, his right knee sustained no major injuries during his career. it was his left knee that was destroyed and caused his early retirement. he didn't have bad "knees". he had 1 bad knee, and that was enough to prematurely end his playing days.

[mrcroation56]

Bobby Orr the greatest ever,period.

[geocgeo]

What Bobby Orr accomplished while playing on bad knees is simply incredible.

watch?v=R07bkNod7Yk

[hankmander]

this is the worst part about hockey. doing stuff like this in the street is criminal.

[PFB1994]

This is one video clip and people are trashing Frank Mahovlich? I know Bobby Orr was great, but Frank Mahovlich was a hell of a player. Certainly only rivaled by Bobby Hull as Left Winger's go in the 60s to early 70s. Won the Stanley Cup 6 times. Frank Mahovlich was cerainly a top hockey player.

[Cupidville]

Hockey has turned into a cheap shot artist wonderkind. I stopped watching and playing the game alongtime ago.

[Cupidville]

A Cheap Shot. Call it what it is , truly. Bobby Orr is the best player to ever play the game!! Frank M is nothing but comma, not even a period. Orr's legacy continues today.

[lpvcrcd]

@Cupidville frank mahovlich was a very good player. He's no Bobby Orr but he had a very fine career I'm sure Frank was hit many times  by many others in his career You can expect them to baby Orr or lay off him. He was tough enough to handle on one knee

[Cupidville]

You had 2 players on Detroit -- Mahovlich & Bergman -- delibrately try a knee on knee with Bobby Orr. A knee-on-knee is and always will be a delibrate intent to injury a player. Shame on Mahovlich, Bergman. It is what it is -- a CHEAP shot, delibrate intent to injury. That why in the game of hockey you have to protect you better players. In a Canuck vs Bruin game Hillard Graves made the mistake of trying this in Terry O'Reilly. Graves paid the price, big time.

[brianond]

i hope they keep hell hot for you Mahavolich for that dirty hit

[IntensePaintball]

@brianond unfortunaly thats hockey, In the original six taking a guy like orr out gives you a shot at the cup, or at least a better one, every hockey player tries to "hurt" people sometimes, he knew orr had a bum knee and took advantage of it, if you think the same thing dosent happen today your are blind

[brianond]

I'm sitting here with a reconstructed acl and no ice time for me on this fine sunday night. from a dumb hit in the senior leagues. I wish you luck sir

[IntensePaintball]

I have been injured too, broken jaw, blown out knee, compound fracture in my wrist just to name a few, that is in all sports though, as an athelete you understand that you get injured, everyone gets injured, it happens

[Pohjoiskarjalainen]

Mahovlich shouldn't be in the HOF because of this.

[bklonb]

thats like three attempts to injure

[Fig1918]

@bklonb yeah no kidding a great taken out by some scumbags

[sundaydude1]

looks like it was done on purpise

[tridoug]

Orr was also his own worst enemy. He skated like a kamikaze -- didn't avoid contact, would LOOK for contact and skated in such a way that made him vulnerable.

[IntensePaintball]

@tridoug in other words he was a hockey player....

[tssausage]

This was from the opening game of the 1970-71 season

[zegermans750]

ugh did people go after his knees that often? I can count 3 tries on his knee in this clip alone

[PRIMAX1967]

zergermans750: As soon as Orr got his first really serious knee injury, all the opposing teams just went for the knees. They couldn't catch so they just simply hit him where it hurt the most. And what brought his magnificent carreer to an early end.

[ridad1]

Shame Orr wasn't able to take advantage of today's medical technology. he would have been golden. I was lucky enough to see him play live when I was a kid.

[stage50cal]

your right. it is a shame

[jn829]

Too bad this guy had more years in him if not for this injury

[Eno22921]

Sad day in bruins history

[NIGELUONGO]

FUCK YOU FRANK MAHAVOLICH!

[liberty1866]

GOD BLESS YOU FRANK. JOB WELL DONE.

[leafyutube]

This is probably from the 1970-71 season.

[artisacrime]

So fucking sad... an immortal man becomes human :(

[rhinohippo]

I saw that hat first time it happened, but now seeing the replay Mahovolich knew what he was doing, he was going knee to knee, he sticks it right out there

[rolltide2001]

and this is what put him out of the league

[trunkinthefront]

what kind of a fucking asshole does that to a classy super star

that makes me sick

[BlackQuatro]

Mahovolich should be ashamed

[Ian19851]

Frank Mahavolich was NOT a dirty player. He was trying to stand Orr up. I'm a die-hard Bruins fan, but believe me, that wasn't dirty.

[Kenoman29]

Ian 19851...I've been a B's fan since 68.Frank Mahavolich was not a dirty player...he might have been trying to square himself up to put the shoulder into Orr,, but he really was NOT a dirty player. Maybe (but I doubt it) he got to be dirty when he joined Montreal (which would not have been a surprise considering most Montreal players have been rotten)..but he wasnt dirty with Detroit. I hate the Montreal Canadiens as much as Red Sox Fans hate the Yankees. I've been a Yankee fan for 46 years.

[Buffalopirate]

Just a plain fuckin dirty hit, the whole bruin team shudda jumped him for that..

never woulda thought he was such a dirty player, but that was one of the very few ways u were gonna slow Orr down.

at least Mahovilich hurt himself , too, but he shoulda had his fuckin head ripped off for intentionally attempting to injure Orr on that play..dirty cocksucker

[5inthehole]

Seen to much of this watching Bruins games in the seventies. Just imagine what he would of accomplished if he didn't have to retire at age 29. What a loss.

[11DNA11]

sounds so cool... he just glides through 2 hall of famers :D "goes past Delvecchio and Mahovlich"

[HockeyStyle08]

Puhh,, Poor Bobby Orr

[bobbyorr2888]

cheap shot, the only way to stop orr was to go after his knee. Bill Barber of the Flyers did the same in the play offs.

[85highlander]

also check out the new youtube video: watch?v=1DuYl_dfsWM

[Bleeney]

If seeing Mahovlich knee Orr like this pisses you off, watch the youtube video of Terry O'Reilly beating the shit out of him. It'll make you feel better.

[85highlander]

you're right -- it worked, if just for a little while...the scotch/irish in me misses watching o'reilly's left hooks nearly as much as watching orr go end to end :)

[Bleeney]

Terry O'Reilly...born to be a Bruin.

[nohandsuperman]

@Bleeney you are talking about the best player in the world here comeon dude get a life

[meanwiddlekid]

That was worse than anything I saw Ulf Samuelson do.

[dkjaerwdww]

bobby shoulda been a pussy like gretzky and confined himself to being a perimeter player.

unfortunately, he had a pair and that shortened his career

[hubbedbee]

RGO..thee most complete hockey player ever!

[heggster44]

The Big M. What a putz. Notice Gordie Howe could have done the same!! He has to much class and he would wait for the corners.  That was blatent and then Big M lays down like a pussy cause he knows he gonna get attacked. When was the last time to giver of the knee on knee goes down?? Never seen it!! Brutal!

[xtntx]

Stop thinking one sided. I can say the same thing about Orr crashing onto Big M and being a coward going down. I love Orr but you have no idea how knee on knee feels like. It hurts for the both of them.

[cptjrkov]

# 27 flattened his leg out upon impact

thats a dead give away of a knee attack

fuckin coward

[xtntx]

Stop calling FRANK a coward. He is a respectable hockey legend where his knee ended up at the wrong places just like 100 other hockey players that did it to Orr. That play clearly looks like Frank thought he was going to drive to the slot but then Orr went the other way. Leave the Big M alone...

[shaunthemandude]

im sorry but he stuck out his knee

[xtntx]

It was the way Orr played. If you take a player today and make him play like Orr, he'd be banged up just as much as Orr. Way too unrealistic to skate from one end to the other slot expecting to not get run over...

[cptjrkov]

Ovechkin is like Orr in many aspects

his career will be cut short as well

They both played with reckless emotion

[5inthehole]

Remember this video like it was yesterday. As soon as it happend, both my father and I said "Oh no!". Mahavolich wasn't a cheap hitter, just one of those things that happends in old time hockey. When's the last time you seen a hip check in todays game?? Boy I miss old hockey!

[dunskie]

It took me 2 days to finally watch this one highlander. Son of a bitch.Why is Fred Cusic not in the booth with Johnny? What year did Fred start at TV 38?

[85highlander]

They were always taking a run at him - definitely a very painful memory, for Bobby and for all Boston fans.

I believe Fred Cusick took over for Don Earle in 1971. Nobody called a game better than Fred and Johnny!!

[jake1004]

Fred took over from Don in the 71-72 season. This hit is probably from the 70-71 season. I don't think that Johnny was in the booth all the time for the 69-70 season. And the Bruins didn't wear their white jerseys at home games until 1971.

[ldhorricks]

Are you sure about the jersey thing?...As far as I know...the entire league switched to home-white to start the 70/71 season...it was a league decision not and individual team decision...as it was when they switched back to home-dark a few years back....think that was a lame idea to switch back...just because of all that third jersey sales crap...