Derek Sanderson: The Only Bruin Bold Enough to Challenge Bobby Orr to a Fight
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- There have been a number of characters in the locker room over the past 100 years of Bruins hockey. But few stand out more than Derek Sanderson. His hard-nosed playing style and charismatic personality have left an undeniable mark on Bruins fans who watched his career in Boston.
I remember those glory years I grew up in Boston I was just a kid at the time.
But those guys were my idols.
My favorite bruins era and players, Derek and Bobby two of my favorites
Derek was 1 of the best faceoff men in the league. He shadowed all the big scorers like Beliveau, Hull and Howe. I loved watching him and Eddie Westphal on the penalty kill.
What a greaf time that was to be a fan of the Bruins tuff fast temates that coverd for each other awsome
As a young teenager, Derek was my idol. I followed his career with enthusiasm, and wanted to be just like him. In one aspect, I succeeded...drinking. What I am most happy about is that we both got sober!
What a gift! Mark 5/8/1994
❤😂😂
He was the second best player during his time with the Boston Bruins but the alltime greatest faceoff player in NHL history.
The self proclaimed "best face-off" man in hockey.
Awesome to relive those days 👍......what Sanderson did after hockey is also very notable both the downside and his ability to come back from that 👏
I grew up in Brooklyn N.Y. a Ranger fan with my dad being a Ranger fanatic !!! From the mid 60's through the 70's the best games for the both of us, be it on the radio or TV was Bruin games. We LOVED hating the Bruins when they play the Rangers but always watched and cheered them on when playing any other hockey team...yes we were Bruin fans because they deserved our respect.
Isn't that something. I'm from Boston and am a die hard Bruins fan, but I loved the Rangers too. My favorite Rangers were Brad Park, Vic Hadfield, Jean Ratelle, etc. We sure had some good battles. The Stanley Cup playoffs in 1972 was fantastic. Boston and New York were pretty evenly matched, except we had Bobby!
Sanderson was a playboy and a rockstar...ironically the guy he had that fight with helped him back to a road of sanity and recovery.
Those were the days my friend !
My dad took me to many of those games in Boston, it was magic.
My dad took me to a Bruins game at the Boston Garden when I was a little kid. Derek was my favorite player. We always watched the Bruins on TV. There happened to be a meet and greet after the game with Sanderson, Johnny Buycik, and another player I can't remember. I got in Sanderson's line with the poster my Dad bought me that night. He signed it and said Hey kid how'd you like the game tonight? I was starstruck and just said, good. That poster was on my bedroom wall for years. This was probably 71 or 72...I was a second grader so 7 years old.
The Turk, My all time favorite Bruin next to Bobby Orr ! Great stick handler and always threat for a shorthanded goal. Man I loved those years of the Bruins.
I loved this team they were true Superstar Team1st Hockey Players
Tremendous job on this.
My favorite bruin .A I took his number 16 in every team I played on 😊
Those years were the best hockey years ever!
Same with football and baseball. All peaked in the 70s and 80s
i was a shuttle car driver for Avis and had to give Derek a ride from Park Sq to the Airport. He was very cool and offered me a few lines of coke. It was an exciting ride and we were non stop blabbering all the way. He was a lot of fun.
Icon...Legend here...
Great to see my good friend Kevin Vautour in this!
My heroes as a kid, years later I played in golf ProAms with him and Bobby Orr and other Boston greats. Meaning the same tournament-not personally. Longest drive hole I thought I was a contender one year-we get down to my ball and see the marker about 15yds ahead. Derek had had one or both knees replaced recently (like weeks), is probably 20 years older than me, and won it. Humbling but awesome.
Derek was great
Go Bruins!
Orr was a tough kid but neither he nor Derek would have done anything to piss off Teddy Green. That guy was tough!
Awesome
Orr was tough when he had to fight.
For sure. You did not want to mess with him. Same for Gordie Howe and Bobby hall. Just because those guys were Superstars they would battle you like the known "tough guys."
I remember in the late sixties, John Ferguson got the best of Bobby one time. It may have been the very next game, but I remember the next time they fought Bobby gave it right back at him and won that match.
I wore number 7 because of Esposito...but make no mistake, Orr was a legend.
Sanderson was also a great player and a huge part of their team. Hockey Night
in Canada was Toronto, Montreal and Boston......I choose Boston as my fav team.
The day of real hockey.
Put down the Laptop and read the book “ I gotta be me “ by Derek Sanderson. I’ve read a lot of good books in my life and that was one of the ones I enjoyed reading the most.
TRES Cool, Turk, You Rock
Nice person my brother had a body cast curve of the spine. He talked to my brother an was a nice person
Sanderson blew it, he had talent on a great team then left for million dollars then spent everything on parties
It isn’t cheap to have that kinda fun. A strong willed person can put that behind, move on and become a great person. He was a character, that’s for sure.
he invested and lost most of his money in nightclubs with joe namath and some other swinger types.
Always admired the Bruin named “Turk”
I was born in 78 my dad's last name was Sanderson my mom wanted to name me Dustin but my cousins said you should name him Derek and sure enough my name was Derek Sanderson when I was younger I didn't know why people always said your name is Derek Sanderson then I figured it out..Especially being from Canada that name was huge in the 70s and 80s..I played hockey till I was a teenager I got into the booze and other shit..loll I was a pretty good player but I'll never know..
My favorite was Ray Nelly bergeron Chara and Bobby Orr we're the best I ever there were the best. Best of the bruins
Sanderson was incredible at faceoffs…how do you miss that?
i learned how to take face offs from watching derek. he would still be winning all his face offs today cuz he mostly played the other guy's stick, rather than the puck. the way players take them has changed quite a bit over the years ( now holding the stick with both gloves over the stick instead of one over and one under, as derek did ) but today's players still play the puck. no matter what your opponent does, even if he's faster, you can take the puck away by playing his stick. i was small, but i'd win 80 % of my face offs and get 5 points per year by drawing it right back to my wing at the top of the circle. bing bang.
The story I heard Bobby Orr was the one that got him as a broadcast
If the ages were correct, I could just see Burt Reynolds playing Derek Sanderson in a Hockey movie. I am imagining they had similar personalities. Reynolds did have some athletic ability and played football in his young years. Don't think Reynolds was a skater though.
My Dad thought that the referees favored Bobby Orr. Touch Bobby, penalty!
your dad would be wrong. orr's career ended early because he took a beating from extra attention from opponents. he got into plenty of scraps and fights sticking up for himself. orr drew a lot of penalties because guys couldn't keep up with him or contain him, but that is different than favoritism.
I grew up right out side Boston I used to cut Fred Stanfields grass he lived in my town Yastrzemski and a couple red Sox lived the next town over. We lived about fifteen miles from Boston. Just saying
They didn’t take shit from anybody
Go bruins
Whats Grapes say about it ?
Bold enough or crazy enough ?
Back when players didn't wear helmets, there was a lot more personality on the ice. Helmets are needed from they took something away from the entertainment.
Was Derek Jeter’s dad a fan of Sanderson…..Jeter’s middle name is Sanderson….just spit balling here…
Cool cat 😅🏒
Sanderson looks like the guy who invented the sex panther cologne in the anchorman movie
what looks pretty good?
Chip chop see ya later Nats -DS
Fred asking DS a question when he knew his mouth was full of ice cream
Didn't watch the vid ...yet.
Although the title is deceiving
Wasn't Sanderson a junkie at one point ? That would be a junkie challenging the golden number four Bobby Orr.
Bobby did help Turk get back on his feet when he was down and out.
@@km11wpg Well done, Derek. Orr was pretty good but don't you think Bourque was in the same category ? Bourque spent less time in the penalty box and didn't fight as much as Orr. And yet his team was more or less as successful as Orr's Bruins in the regular season only. Of course the Edmonton Oilers had something to say about the Bourque Bruins when they met them in the 1988 and 1990 Cup Finals.
Bobby Orr helped get him into treatment and sobriety.
@@hwy2065 Good for Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson ! I'm helping people understand that Wayne Gretzky was BETTER than Bobby Orr. But so many people refuse to acknowledge the truth because the truth hurts doesn't it ? Ask anyone who was at Boston Garden in the 1988 and 1990 Cup Final. I wouldn't be surprised that many people WISHED for that power failure in the 1988 Cup Final simply because the Oilers were the greatest ! Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't need to know everyone to know that inside so many people there is this evil rush to hurt/hate the enemy.
@@Mike-l7y5y are you drunk ? TBI ? i'm correcting you. you're wrong. gibberish.
Go
Sanderson was a wako, that is why he eventually failed.
Great recovery story..people need friends to help.. 🙏 ...awful color man later..just brutal to listen to..He aged Fred Cusick 10 yrs
Most overrated and overpaid player in pro hockey history.
maybe overpaid, but not overrated. he got paid because wherever he went on the road was a sell out. he was the biggest draw in the NHL, outside of orr. he killed penalties and scored shorties. he was a second line scorer playing on a third line. he was so good defensively that it caused other teams to be conservative offensively. every team in the league would have LOVED to have him. your post is kinda loopy.
Thousand dollar hands and a two cent head. Dude was a sideshow at best.
Be better, Spidey! As was noted, Sanderson was magical from 1967-72. If he'd kept up that play, although we all know why he didn't, IMO he'd have been borderline HOF.
He was a very good hockey player. Made a great comeback in life
@@petegoodwinboston4825no doubt he “ could have”. I “ could have” been a doctor…… two cent head = bought into his own BS. An idiot in an era wrought with idiots. I’m sure both of his remaining brain cells are having a helluva time trying to find one another.
@@petegoodwinboston4825 he also had a couple of solid comeback years in 74 -- 76 playing for the rangers and blues, scoring 24 and 25 goals. it was then that his hips gave out and he turned to drugs.
Then Bobby pulled D from the depths of hell. On a park bench in NYC.
Where was the fight ?
Gary broke his jaw
Old time hockey...............cigerettes and beer between periods .
Go Bruins!