Bobby Orr Eruption

[5inthehole]

Could you imagine what Orr's percentage in shootouts would be if they had them when he played? I bet he's be 75 to 80 percent...and I'm not joking. If you parents want to teach your kids how to play hockey, get as many old Bruins games you can and have him study Orr's moves. It's how I learned! (and I scored 12 goals in one Bantom game!).

[5inthehole]

If anyone says they seen a more unbelievable goal than the one Orr put behind Dryden while swatting at the puck in the corner-boards just behind the goal line (start at 3:16), I'm calling you a liar. That is, unless you remind me of another outstanding, unbelievable Bobby Orr goal I might be forgetting. I've been watching and studying the game for 45+ years and he still the most amazing player. Gretzky could do it every so often, but Orr did it nightly on bad knees. He was something to see folks

[bishopaz]

i agree with you all,bobby orr could do it all,and he was a defenseman

[AllAmerican1964]

Bobby Orr was Mr. Everything for Boston, the greatest hockey player of all time!!!!

[gangster3591]

I hated Orr when I was a kid. He destroyed my Toronto Maple Leafs so many times, sometimes almost single-handed. Orr scared me to death, like a force of nature, unleashed, can scare you to death.

45 years later I feel privileged to have watched him play.

Bobby Orr was, without doubt, the greatest hockey player the world has seen

[Stormin024]

None better than #4.. Thanks for sharing these fantastic memories...

[roger6060]

I'm a Pens fan and I still think Orr was the best!!!!!!

[RichieEastside]

Bobby Score.

[arlichar11]

i do believe if i had to choose betweenorr and gretzy u gotta choose orr cuz he was the ultimate player, on both sides...not just Offense....and if they played in same era it would be the greatest showdown/matchup ever or Orr would have made the great one just so-so..lol

[deweypug]

Orr was humble about his talents, something the kids need to understand...

[rbatcret]

Orr would do something that had never happened in history and just skate off the ice. These clowns today score a goal and think they've done something earth-shaking, they dance and jump all around. Orr was the greatest player!

[jtoshawa]

i'm laughing as I'm watching this video....I'm laughing because Bobby played as though he was playing against a load of pylons!! Unbelievable talent he was!!

[rcknbkr403]

Orr was, simply, the greatest.

[674367436743]

OOOPS, I did a booboo. Bobby's goal was May 10th 1970...duh! the one and two are a little too close with chubby fingers.lol

[674367436743]

May 20th,1970 Orr raised his hands, but then again who wouldn't, it was the winning goal for 'ol Lord Stanley. I was born 9 days after he scored that goal, and my son 28 years later. How could we both love him as a player?? Because he's awesome! My son puts one piece of tape on his stick and of coarse he's #4. weird eh!

[spock8131]

Bobby is Bobby for ever and thats it .

[matt75hooper]

I saw Orr play his entire career....I've seen fabulous talent in the NHL the last 30 years since his retirement. Honestly----Orr was the best. Defense is far tougher than Offense. Orr could play Gretzky's position. Could Gretzky play Point ? Not a single highlight of Gretzky or Lemieux even caring about defense. Result--Orr's plus/minus blows them away, not even close.

Laughable.

[matt75hooper]

Orr won the scoring title---and was 60+ points higher than the next defenseman on the scoring list. He also won the title with the second highest margin of victory above the #2 scorer at the time. How are you supposed to measure such feats ?

[matt75hooper]

Orr tipping in a shot.....when was the last time you saw a D'man tipping in a shot ?

Orr was Da Man

[85highlander]

Good point, and Orr could do this regularly, along with everything else that needed to be done on the rink -- The play above starting at the 4:20 mark was a regular staple of his play. Orr didn't just go end to end -- he also went end, to end, to end!! He starts in the opponents zone, goes back and takes the puck from the skater, smokes back down the other end and tips in a pass from Espo. As matt75hooper said, find me some footage of another Dman exhibiting this, from end to end to end to boot!

[bashbrannigan]

You notice Orr would never raise his arms up to celebrate if he embarrassed the opposition! He never tried to rub it in. He was all class!!

[rhinohippo]

smooooth, smooooooth, smooooooooth

[CanLaxKid]

lol i love the eddie van halen eruption nice touch ;)

[OrrCountry]

IN addition to the single season plus-minus record of +124, Orr also holds the career mark: in a mere 596 games played, Orr was plus 597. He 's the only player ever to average 1.00 plus per game for his career. The closest to him was Big Larry Robinson at approx. half that, at .50 per game. This particular stat, coupled with the fact that Orr was the only defenseman ever to lead the NHL in scoring (note: he scored more than 100 points 3 times) , says it all about the great #4.

[a3her]

Hi OrrCounty..yes he was simply amazing!! Starting in 69-70 he scored 120, 139, 117, 101, 122, and 135 pts in the next 6 seasons...wow!!! During the 72-73 years he lost many games to injury time..yet still hit the century mark. Simply the greatest to every lace on a pair of blades.

[digger12del]

Your right. The stats say he was the best. He was never knocked out like Gretzky either, he could defend himself. He controlled the game like no other athlete ever. I wonder if anyone will ever dominate a sport like him. I don't think so, he was super coordinated.

[shumirules1]

How sad it is that he only played until he was 30 like a shooting star.. but god was he brillant

[mikeiyc]

great highlights! picture quality is great, wher do you get the highlights from I would love to make a bobby orr video.

keep posting these great videos!

[Bleeney]

What we see in the 5:30 of this video, is what Bobby did throughout his entire career: Put on a one-man clinic covering every aspect of the game: Stickhandling Brilliant tape-to-tape passes Deadly hard and accurate slapshots, snapshots and backhands Killing penalties Running the game's top powerplay bodychecking backchecking and fighting (in this case protecting his all-star teammate from being manhandled). And he did it while always moving faster than everybody else on the ice. Unbelievable!

[BilliieBobSmith]

Oh and btw, retire # 4 league wide now!

[amcoho4]

@BilliieBobSmith fuck that retire #4 in all sports

[OilersCanadasTeam]

willbusch: Hahaha, please bud, dont compare Ovechkin and Crosby to Orr. These two kids are nothing compared to #4 Bobby Orr. I doubt any player will achieve the kind of statistics that Orr had. Phenomenal plus/minus, a very high pts per game (and he was a defenceman). The quality of goals he scored was exceptional too. He could skate around anything and anybody. He scored many 180 foot empty net goals without looking at the net. Have you seen anybody that could do similar? I doubt it. Orr is #1.

[OrrCountry]

Here's what differentiates Orr from literally all other professional athletes, let alone hockey players: No player of any professional team sport ever CONTROLLED games like Orr did. No other professional team athlete made fools of the opposition to the point where crowds could be heard audibly laughing, both at Boston Garden and on the road. You know you're watching greatness when you're watching something you've never seen before or since. That would be Bobby Orr.

[willbusch]

gotta question wheres that end to end rush he did then he put his head down???like to see it..he reminds me of ovechkin and crosby....

[Bleeney]

I love the way Orr comes flying in to defend Esposito when Carol Vadnais started hammering away at him. Vadnais eventually got traded to the Bruins. He called Orr not only the best player, but also the best leader he'd ever seen.

[assman84604]

yup, thats my idol

[matt75hooper]

My own all time favoite Orr moment was while he was on a power play. A defenseman got the puck behind his own net and tried to clear it. He sent a very hard wrist shot towards the Point about 3 feet off the ice. Orr moved slightly off the boards and picked it out of mid air with his blade just inside the blue line. He then carried the puck 15 feet or so and blasted it by the poor damn goalie. It was one of those very common Orr moments, when you said "Havent seen that before".

[Bleeney]

I remember seeing that. What amazed me wasn't just that he got his stick on the puck, it was the way it dropped straight down so he could take off with it. An absolutely perfect bunt.

[ORRfan13]

my fav moment is in either 70 or 72 when boston was playing the california seals and orr got the puck at the start of a PK and skated with it the whole penalty then scored near at the end of the penalty or just after it expired...orr just keep skating up and down the ice and the california team could do nothing..

[a3her]

Insane skill displayed during that pk. Cherry describes, and shows much of it on youtube.

[paulhoy]

Great footage! Thanks!

[satttt12]

Bobby Orr is hockeys masterpiece

[squannacook]

Too screechy? It's footage from forty years ago, what the heck is it supposed to sound like? And I like the Van Halen vibe. Bobby Orr was like an "eruption" on the ice, as explosive as a volcano.

I'm just grateful some of this footage of Orr is still around. Some of the clips here aren't usually seen at the other sites.

[orton180]

2 screechy

[TODixon]

go takes some music appreciation ya bum

[68trapr]

awesome Orr but the music SUCKS.

[dunskie]

How did I miss this new one? 

SICK.

[dkjaerwdww]

seriously, when you watch all the things orr could do on a sheet of ice, how can you possibly put one-way wayner ahead of him?

[dkjaerwdww]

football players are only good for taking needles up the ass, for slapping around their pregnant girlfriends and for dropping out of college.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot: they're pretty good at posting bail, too.

[infected28]

Greatest player of all times: Maurice Richard, The Rocket, the first to achieve the fabled feat of 50 goals in 50 games. R.I.P

[hartzy17]

you need so much more skill to play hockey than football its a known fact evreyone can run but how many people can skate

[EDB0223]

Hockey is football but,for fags.lol

[Codysb]

ur straight but for fags

[kfizzle441]

i hate to say this, but the way he takes it up reminds me a lot of roller hockey..

[xtntx]

Thx Highlander, one of the best vids you've uploaded here. 5star1

[fernmann7]

Highlander, you keep outdoing yourself. If you can, keep it up. Mucho appreciated.

[dkjaerwdww]

the greatest hockey player of all time

[HollywoodTimes]

Sorry but Gretzky will always be number 1. Not a Gretzky lover or anything but he's the best ever, with Orr a distant 2nd, Lemeuix 3rd, Howe 4th and Messier 5th I would say.

[squannacook]

All great players who would dominate regardless the era, but Orr is tops. The fact that, as a defenseman, he is even in these conversations speaks volumes. If any of the above ever win a Norris, while also winning the Art Ross, I might re-think this heirarchy of hockey greats. But until then, only Bobby Orr dominated every phrase of the game, and paid for it with a shortened career. The 1st play in the video says it all. Orr comes barreling over the top. How often did Gretzky do that...?

[titties100]

no way dude, greatest hockey player of all time: Al Iafrate. just the greatest.

[GFG8]

Great, and yes #4 is the BEST!!!

[squannacook]

All this talk about who's the greatest needs to end. Everyone else is playing for second place.

This guy is SUPERMAN!!

[tret7tret]

And not even a close second at that.

#4 for ever the greatest to ever lace em up.

[Seagateway]

Thanks Highlander -Great Video of the greatest...

[TomBoston191]

I love the footage of Orr "ragging" the puck.

Still waiting for someone else to be able to do that at the professional level.

Orr was toying with the opposition so much of the time. It's still amazing to watch.

[BBB4and7]

Ragging the puck, yes a dying art that Orr did better than anyone.

I don't even know if today's players know what "ragging" the puck" means.

[dunskie]

Don Earl ws announcer before Freddy Cusik?

[squannacook]

What? Are you having a slight memory lapse over 40 years ago? Happens to me all the time!

One thing those who saw Orr play will never forget, however. He was always far and away the best hockey player of them all!!

[dunskie]

What? My question?

[sniurbnotsob]

Thanks for posting these old clips, highlander. I think it's great that some of these videos are available for the younger audience to see some of what made Bobby Orr so special. It was a different era, but he is clearly the best player on the ice by far.

He makes it all look so easy out there!!

[oldkeyw]

Nice to hear Don Earl after all these years!

[savinhill94]

first view

[squannacook]

Orr came in charging like a bull at the beginning. No wonder his teammates respected him so much. He fought his own battles, and those of others if need be.

[sniurbnotsob]

I forgot how ugly Espo was as a fighter. He had the size, and the big ass, but I don't remember him as a fighter. Orr, on the other hand, had a nasty temper. Must have been the Irish in him. He flattened Vadnais here at full speed at the beginning, and then Espo skates away...go figure!