Orr is a joke + Yes I remember the clowns, the Big Bad Losers. 2 Stanley cups, glory of a lifetime ... lol... While Montreal CH won 6 Stanley cups in the 70s + In 1976-77, the Habs lost only eight games during the 80-game season (60-8-12). A record that still stands. (Note: they lost 8 game because the incompetence of the coach S. Bowman. They should have lost only 4 or 5 games this season)
I would say he and Howe are the most complete hockey players. Orr is faster but Howe is tougher. But what about Michael Jordan? He didn’t have any weaknesses.
STILL get chills watching that goal. Watched every game on a 10 inch black and white with a 'custom made' UHF antenna made from genuine coat hanger steel. Good ole TV38.
Even as a die-hard Blackhawks fan, there was something special about that 70s Bruins team. Just a unique bunch of players. And, of course, they had Bobby Orr.
When Larry bird was with the Celtics he would look up into the rafters during the national anthem, When a reporter asked him if he was looking at the Celtic championship banners he replied no I’m looking at the number 4 for Bobby Orr, I heard he was the greatest! Quite a compliment!
Over half a century later, I can still recognize every player by face or number. It's tough to explain now just how much the Bruins *dominated* New England back then ... how youth rinks would book ice time at 3 AM, how once a week the Boston Globe would have a special letter section curated by Phil Esposito (and it'd run at LEAST two whole pages, and I was the happiest kid in Plymouth County the week Phil answered MY letter!)
I was 15 and watched the 1970 game on T.V. in which they won and from that time on I was hooked on playing hockey. I played up to the age of 42 while stationed in Germany on inline skates. Watching this video brought back some good memories.. Thank you!!
What a year…1970! My junior year in high school! My best friend’s aunt had season tickets to the Bruins, and rarely missed a game, even when they were at the bottom of the barrel. When she had to work late she would give Kathy the tickets, so I probably went to 5 or 6 games… my Dad and brothers were so jealous!! I watched Bobby Orr ‘fly’ past the net (after being tripped) with that Stanley Cup winning goal!!! New England went crazy!!! What an amazing time!! This is a great documentary of that time!! We 3v3ncamped out overnight to get tickets to the pre-season games in 1971! Happy times!!!
Still have his first book "Orr On Ice"...given to me as a Christmas gift...think I was 9 or 10 and was the best gift that year above all the toys etc. This video bought me back to a wonderful time as a boy...sincerely, I thank you.
Shaking Bobby's hand was one of the highlights of my life as a kid. I have that picture on a shelf in my office and every time I'm having a hard day, I look at to bring myself back and smile.
I was Rick MacLeish's paperboy as a kid (they lived at 119 Greenvale Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ) After the Flyers took the '74 cup ? I was collecting money, and he answered the door one time (his wife usually answered & paid for paper delivery...) and I said to him, "I'm collecting money for the Gilles Gilbert fund, Mr. Rick".... He let out a true belly laugh & said to me, "kid, that was so funny it nearly chased my hangover away".... Another Flyer, Larry Goodenough, lived on the same road a few years later, maybe '78 or so ? Good times, and yes- I own a '74 replica Orr jersey. Just a huge fan of the game- especially then. Bernie Parent & Jim Craig are still my idols !!... 🚬😎👍
Bobby Orr was such a unique talent. He not only changed the pace of the game but also brought great success to the Bruins when they had nothing for years!
I was there, there, there - 20 rows back of the goal - favorite day of my whole life - in between the third period and the start of overtime, every single person at the Garden turned to the person next to them and said, "Orr's gonna score."
Yes I remember the clowns, the Big Bad Losers. 2 Stanley cups, glory of a lifetime ... lol... While Montreal CH won 6 Stanley cups in the 70s + In 1976-77, the Habs lost only eight games during the 80-game season (60-8-12). A record that still stands. (Note: they lost 8 game because the incompetence of the coach S. Bowman. They should have lost only 4 or 5 games this season)
@@catholiccowboy8545 hey, i'll give it to ya that the habs are most likely the best team in history, and even though i was born in montreal and grew up in mass. i still think orr (a canadian of course) is the best defenseman in nhl history.
@@drjwbriand if you are searching for the best defenseman in NHL history, the only place you're going to find it it's of course with the Montreal CHC. Because what kind of strange Dman was B. Orr, if he ever was a defenseman ?? You mean he was great because he could start his shift or routine on his zone then move the puck by himself all over the rink, miss his shot to the net, pick up the puck back and skate back to his D. zone (with all the other team players on his tail), blocks some shots on his way, then done it over again (always by himself) all over, up side down the rink and wow he shoots he scores. No help wanted ! He should have tried the Ice Capades. He wasn't a defenseman he was defense/offense human-fly rocket. No wonder why Mtl won so many cups with a single man team like the Big Bad Bruins. Americans love so much any show off. ** Serge Savard was what a Dman should be (9 cups)
This is great I’m a Montrealer born in 1961 and my older brother and me were huge Bruin fans at that time. All my friends hated my #4 black Boston jersey. Loved Cheevers mask. Sadly I’m now a fan of Les Canadiens. But that Bruins team always takes me back. 😎
Summer of '69 was the year my family moved up to Boston. My folks gave me a pair of skates for Christmas and I immediately learned to play ice hockey AND became a fan of Bobby Orr and the Bruins. While I haven't lived in New England in 43 years I still consider the Bruins of 1970 to be my favorite sports team ever. And I consider myself most blessed to have been a fan of this the greatest sports team in history. With Orr the greatest athlete of all time. These men galvanized New England. They were probably at least as popular as the Beatles were in 1964.
Yes I remember the clowns, the Big Bad Losers. 2 Stanley cups, glory of a lifetime ... lol... While Montreal CH won 6 Stanley cups in the 70s + In 1976-77, the Habs lost only eight games during the 80-game season (60-8-12). A record that still stands. (Note: they lost 8 game because the incompetence of the coach S. Bowman. They should have lost only 4 or 5 games this season)
As an 11 year old kid was lucky enough to be in the Garden for the May 10th, Mother's Day game. This changed my life and the whole city of Boston. Still have the program, still have the mug.
His all time plus minus is Plus 124. He won every major award short of the Vezina that Hockey has. That ALONE is staggering. Imagine if he had had Bourque's longevity? Holy Shit
I was 11 years old in 1970 in NH and my dad would send me up onto the roof of our house to move the uhf antenna into a position where the game would come in. He would yell out of the den window right there, no go back,, for 20 minutes. You just could not miss even one game! It was absolutely incredible, and nothing has matched this era in Boston sports and I suspect never will. Thank you Bobby!
"The Crazy Things We Did in Order to Improve The Frequency For A Better Connection & Service in Order To Watch Our Boston Bruins!" "We Had To Go Through A Simular Process With Our Antennas in Order To Get A Good Reception!"
@@thomaspsanzi8947 I’m a Montrealer born in 61 and used to watch the Bruins Sunday nights on Channel 33 pbs (WHBH?) with a coat hanger for u UHF antenna lol. Bobby was my hero loved my black #4 Boston jersey. It really bugged my friends (who were all Habs fans) I like the Habs now but that Boston team was great. We had an old arena here that was cold and had the best ice and when ever I played there in my head I was in the Gardens. Thanks Boston thanks Bobby and all the rest.
@@johngore7744 No, no, no...WGBH was/is a PBS station. They did college hockey at one time, but no pro stuff. It was WSBK for the Bruins. Otherwise, you backslider! How dare you utter the devil's name (Habs) in same sentence as our sacred Boston Bruins! You should be tossed into the Trough of Justice!
Yes but the Habs lifted 8 cups during Orrs 12 years in the league showing you how weak the competition was back then. The Leafs and Habs missed the playoffs in 1970 pretty much giving the cup to the only single real team left🤷🏼. The Leafs had a line called The Over the Hill Line in the late 60’s. A young Orr was competing against old men🤣
@@ghytgb tell me that you were kidding... Orrs 12 years were actually 8 as his 1st year before Espo & Co. was traded and he barely played his last 3 seasons (not a single playoff game). And the Leafs were nothing to compare to the Rangers or Black Hawks in early 70s (who knows what would happen if not poor playoff Giacomin goaltending and that 1971 accident goal against Tony).... But you melted my heart by having Dennis as your avatar
i agree bobby orr is the goat,his timeless talent and brilliant creativity, made me the hockey player i was ,i had his poster in my bedroom where i laced my skates the same way he did and i loved the game like he did,what a privelidge to grow up watching the bruins, ps im from philly.
We used to flatten a tennis ball and where out our hockey sticks playing street hockey all year. No net, no boards, just a couple of rocks for the goal crease. Two or three hours after school, and most of the day a lot of times during summer.
Back in the day , as a young kid on the major mud show 😂😂 there was nothing bigger for us kids, than street hockey , thanks to these great players, love you Bobby, Derick, pie eye and Esposito and all my idols growing up 👍👍👍😂😂✌️✌️Wow thanks for the memories, channel 38 that was an antenna balancing nightmare 😂😂 thank you for such great memories 👍👍👍
I was thinking about Chanel 38 while watching this. Our color TV downstairs didn’t have a UHF tuner . My mother had a small black and white TV that picked up UHF in her upstairs bedroom. You should’ve seen the antenna enhancements we did so we could get the signal. Like Howey Long and Dennis Leary said our faces were 2 ft. From the screen. And when SupORRman sored thru the air the whole neighborhood went off like 4th of July fireworks 💥
I remember... Habs fans from Montreal, Bobby Orr was the greatest pure talent I ever saw... They were Béliveau but that was different, he was the gentleman, puck handling like only he could do, but it was different... Boby Orr was different, never a defence ever played before like him... after he played all was different... but this was pure talent... he really did float on ice as others were just skating...
I am a Bruins fan born in 76 so I never saw them play. But the reality is I can name more players from those teams than I can from Bruins teams I actually watched play.
Those were the best years of my life, watching the B's on T.V. 38, and if I was lucky enough for my father to get tickets, I would look so forward to going and sitting at the old Boston Garden which was so small that you were so close to the ice.
to this day after all these years I have never ever seen a pro athlete of any sport doing an almost perfect super man leap on a hard floor, sweet Lord!
Yes Orr flying through the air just after sweeping the St Loser Blues while outscoring the Blues old goalie Glenn Hall 24-6 with the Leafs and Habs out of the playoffs that year. Yes that statue is very well deserved 🤣
Boston was home to an impressive line up of greats including: Tom Brady, Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Carl Yastrzemski, Roger Clemens and Ted Williams, yet Bobby Orr sits atop them all in the hearts of New Englanders.
That,sMe at 12,31 getting scored on .i was the goalie with the Seals,Proud to be in this video,Loved going into the aBoston Garden,Gerry Cheevers was my lifetime Idol and Great friend.I know Only One thing in my Life for Sure.Bobby Orr was the Greatest Athlete that ever lived or ever will live. Gary Smith
I love hockey I grew up in San Diego with WHASan Diego Mariners but I love the NHL and the Boston bruins were fun to watch Bobby Orr and especially when they played the Philadelphia flyers Dave Schultz for those guys would fight and have a hell of a game those were the good old days keep up the good work I love this channel
At 11 years old I was a goalie in a small town an hour from Parry Sound trying to play a game we played on the lake with kids from our community because our arena was basically a big farmers equipment shelter with electric heaters hanging from the roof and maybe room for 110 or so parents. That year was my worst as most of the guys were huge and I was the only sucker to go in the net. We went to Parry Sound for the tri-town series and their arena was massive as Orr built the town an arena that year after the big win and man it was electric we thought we were truly REAL players haha. Played for 20 some years in the net and watched many a cup series routing for Toronto still am today so I Love this game from a kid and met Bobby and his brothers years after playing hockey in Muskoka and those memories are still great times thanks to that kid from Parry-Hoot. Great family from good strong roots in Canada like many players today like the Great one we make the game from our youth, its our sport -PERIOD Americans can have their football and baseball. Loved the video it was amazing memories TY.
I was at that game! It is one of the highlights of my life and I have the picture. A few years later I met Bobby when he visited my high school (Dedham High) and got his autograph. I now live in California and still follow the Boston Bruins games.
I grew up with Bobby Orr, I used to cut articles out of the newspapers, anything about Bobby I had it. He was my hero. Oh , I forgot to tell you I was from Montreal.
He was great when playing against those weak ass AHL quality teams that filled up the league but when facing the Habs he looked like he was in High School🤷🏼
Les Habitants have not had a decent hockey team since 1993. Then the only competition for the Cup was the L.A. Kings with The Great One and not much else.
I was a teen when this team won the Stanley Cup. They won two while I was in high school. Growing up in the Boston area until I was 9, then moved to Mississippi, where there is no hockey, no one else where I lived even understood hockey, so I celebrated alone. Since that time, I became a fan of wearing caps so naturally I looked for a Bruin cap. Never found one., for decades. I lived in Dallas and Florida in later years and still never found a Bruins cap. Christmas of 2010, I am living in Columbus Georgia and go into a hat store in the local mall and there it is. My Bruins cap. And they had TWO!! I spent my last 25 bucks for it, I had looked for one for 35 years or so. Now I had one. And wouldnt you know it? The year I find my cap, the Bruins win another Stanley Cup, after a 39 year drought. So, even though I know I had nothing to do with it, I am gonna claim a bit of responsibility since the year I found my cap, the Bruins win another cup. LOL And I am taking that to the bank.
Just viewed this; I got hooked on hockey in 1966 in N. Jersey as a big Rangers fan. I just wasn't aware of how connected Boston was w/ the Bruins, until seeing this video, tonight. Was moved to L.A. in 1967, the first year the Kings had a franchise, so still a big fan of the game, seeing the Kings finally win 2 Cups in 2 years, about 10 yrs. ago. Winding down now, in retirement, so not as close to the game since Gretzky retired and since the Kings finally won their 2 Cups.😊
Great years! I started playing hockey in 1971 so I was watching games on TV. My uncle lived in Mass and was a well respected hockey coach. He bought me a record album of some of the play by play of the 1972 series against the Russians that I used to play on my little victrola.
Most complete player ever. Wayne never threw a check, blocked a shot, or fought. Never saw Wayne skate backwards. Five Orrs vs five Wayne's, number 4 wins every time.
Jean Beliveau's goal in the second OT (23:36) was the only goal he ever scored in OT in his career. This was a very tense game--it started on a Thursday night and didn't end until the early hours of a Friday morning--the Bruins were devastated losing this game and carried that determination into the 1969-70 season when they won the Stanley Cup (Montreal actually missed the playoffs that year when they lost a critical game to Chicago on the last day of the season)
Look at these legends. Bobby Orr was my childhood hero. My family couldn't afford for me to play hockey, so I played soccer and I insisted on being on defense because of #4.
Sadly, Bobby Orr missed the all-time great Canada/USSR '72 Series. But the way he played in the 1976 Canada Cup was a thing of beauty. On bad knees, which basically sabotaged the rest of his career. What a player. The GOAT!!!
Jean Beliveau related a story of how a few years later he and his wife were in Boston during the summer and they were walking by Fenway Park as a game between the Red Sox and Yankees was going on--a ticket taker recognized him and immediately ushered them into seats right behind the Red Sox bench--despite defeating the Bruins in many games during the course of his career Mr. Beliveau was deeply respected even in Boston
I was 15 in 1970. We lived in Brookline. I distinctly remember being relieved that we didn't have to go through the Canadiens to get to the Stanley Cup. We just couldn't beat them back then.
Another interesting tidbit about Orr as told by Beliveau was that when the Canadiens lined up for a faceoff against the Bruins, the placement of their players was due solely to where Orr was, not any of his teammates.
This was awesome it brought back so many memories. I have been a Bruins fan since I was 9 years old just before Bobby Orr started playing. My friend and I were the only Bruins fans in our area everyone else was either Leaf fans or the dreaded Habs fans. I have had a lot of Bruins memorabilia over the years. My favorite piece is of that famous goal. I found an vintage frame that had a large picture and a mirror on either side. That famous picture is now the center piece and the mirrors are gone and replaced with some of my favorite Bruins players cards. I am planning to move out of the country when I retire at the end of year and have to travel light so can't take it with me but will always be a Big Bad Bruins fan.
I love this documentary--and I'm a lifelong Rangers' fan. I read about Bobby Orr as a kid, after he retired and heard all these amazing stories about him. The thing that stands out most is his humility--how he used to put his head down after he scored so as not to embarrass the goalie. We desperately need a Bobby Orr in all major sports. The thing that struck me was that when the guys were telling Bobby Orr stories, he still had his head bowed. What a great man and hockey player!
This is one of the best attributes was how humble Orr was. One coach asked him why he had an open net but passed the puck to a kid who only had 3 goals all season in juniors. Bobby said " we were up 6 to 2, I figured it might help him out."
The best compliment I ever heard about Bobby Orr was that he was a better person than a hockey player. It may have been Derek Sanderson who said that but I'm not sure.
Funny but i don't remember seeing Orr in his defensive zone very often. He was all over the ice like a Ice Capade skater but very rarely on defense. Conclusion Orr was a forward player and surely not a defenseman hense a horrible defense player. ** And In the meantime Mtl won the cups. Montreal has always had at least 4 or 5 Orrs on its team.
@@catholiccowboy8545 Poor Leafs - maybe Orr should not have scored so much against the Leafs. Possibly he hurt their feelings by helping to eliminate them - so sad
I started watching The Bruins in late 70s. Playing the old table hockey Bruins v Canadians was the team's. We would make pucks from small chunks of wood and sand them down. Game on! Special Special memories
Best hockey era was the late 60's and early 70's. Habs and Bruins rivalry was incredible and it was a true passion for their respective fans. Derek Sanderson was certainly the best face-off player in the history of the game and of course Bobby Orr was the greatest (and still is) of all time. But the Habs record speaks for itself and they had so many "greats" throughout their storied history and they always commanded respect from the players and the fans. I remember being in BeanTown one time and getting a tour of the old Boston Gardens. The guide told me that during the playoffs staff would shut down the air conditioning on the visiting Canadiens just to make them suffer a little more during those warm & muggy spring nights. Ha Ha ... gotta support your team somehow eh??? 😁
I bought equipment with his name on it when I was a kid. I watched Mr. Orr do phenomenal things on the ice. I met Bobby Orr at a Special Olympics event (c. 1984-85) at Maguire AFB in New Jersey. We had a chance to speak. Bobby Orr is a mensch.
Dennis , shoulder pads was not the issue young hockey players followed - he didn’t wear socks and just 2 strips of tape on the stick blade - that was the recipe !!!
The reason Bobby was so great is because of his humility. He and Espo born and raised on Canada's great white north. Listen to him speak always about others and not about himself. His skating was based on playing on wide open ponds from a young tender age. This is why he could skate circles around everyone. His heavy shot from making his own pucks. The sobre one always helping his team mates get home as many of them loved their alcohol. Like the great goal scorer Mike Bossy his career ended far to soon. I will never forget the 4 minute standing ovation when he retired at the Boston Garden.
I was 13 when they won the cup, but watching Bobby in his rookie year set the stage for a love of hockey that still burns bright today as I still play at 66. My thirst to want to watch him and the Big, Bad, Bruins has never waned.
I was born January 30 1969 and Bobby Orr was on the cover of Sports Illustrated for that week. I used to hope it was a premonition for my future but it didn't take long for me to realize city leagues were where I was going to top out, :P. It was still something cvool to bring up every 10 years or so, lol.
I played hockey back in the day. Des Moines IA. We went to St. Louis to visit my Godparents who were probably early 40's. Die hard Cardinal fans (at that time baseball and football). Die hard Blues fans. But, boy when Bobby Orr got brought up they were all in.
I learned to love hockey by listening to the radio in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia as a 13 year old kid with a transistor radio. WBZ came through at night as I followed the game and heard the Boston crowds and the names Orr, Espo, Bucyk Hodge et al. Then in 1974 I was sad to see the Flyers best the Bruins . Then 3 months later my dad got Lou Gehrigs Disease and my change to adulthood came sudden as the Bruins fall from the top. My father died less than 2 years later. Saw Bobby Orr play as a shell of his former self as a Blackhawk at an Atlanta Flames games couple of years later.
I was 16 years old watching the Stanley Cup playoffs at my best friend's house my twin brother and another high school friend in Hull, MA. We'd be playing spades before the game started. Then we'd hear the familiar instrumental intro song. We'd pause the game and made our way into the living room to watch the game (I believe on channel 38 WSBK Boston). We'd go back to spades in between periods. Most high school kids wore Bruins jerseys. We went crazy when Bobby Orr scored in overtime to win the Stanley Cup. I joined the Air Force in 1973 finished basic training and my tech school and now was enroute to my first duty assignment. I was in my Air Force blues uniform at Logan International Airport heading to my departure gate when I passed the gate where the Bruins were waiting for their flight. Terry O'Reilly made eye contact with me and said "hey red." I was a 6'4 redhead. I stopped to say hello and then he introduced me to all of the Bruins. Was thanked for my service and then had to head to my gate. Unfortunately I had no camera and got no autographs but I was left with the greatest sports memory of my life. Meeting my hockey heroes made for the best day ever.
Funny but i don't remember seeing Orr in his defensive zone very often. He was all over the ice like a Ice Capade skater but very rarely on defense. Conclusion Orr was a forward player and surely not a defenseman hense a horrible defense player. ** And In the meantime Mtl won the cups. Montreal has always had at least 4 or 5 Orrs on its team.
@Catholic Cowboy , Sounds like you're just a hater. If you heard all of the greats from other NHL teams that played during this tike they've all said that Orr was the greatest defenseman ever. However, you're entitled to your own opinion.
@@brucevidito4923 ... I don't hate Orr, he was a great h. player but obviously a lousy defenseman. The Bruins were a 4 offensive players team when Orr on the ice. Certainly not the all time greatest defense player you are all talking about. I'm just fed up. Greatest about what exactly ?? For me the Bruins were a single player team .. road to disaster .. lol .. At the same time Montreal was truly great with 6 cups and twice they had a season of 8 games and 10 games lost. And some great defensemen on the the ice, Serge Savard leading the way with 9 cups. (it should not be hidden that Orr was a PR targeting Americans because they loved show off ... lol ...)
Johnny Bucyk nicknamed: 'Chief' was Ukrainian. He was awesome! We share the same day in May (but many many years apart! LoL) I grew up idolizing Bobby, Phil, JB, Wayne, Cheevers. My second pair of hockey gloves were Cooper BBP. Black and white. Boston Bruins pro.
man why the hell did i have to be born in 87 🤦🏼♂️….. Hockey is the best pure sport and hands down the one of the toughest sports. Growing up watching Hockey all i ever heard about is the 1970 Bruins and how they were the Beast of the East
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My Fav, Johnny " Pie " Mckenzie, I remember he fought Dennis Hull, Hull came out with a bloddy face and Pie, as always was pushing his shoulder pads because he was so small, LOVED THE MAN, RIP Johnny, as long as live, you will never be forgotten ( 19 ).......
What a great documentary. I too remember watching the B's on my 13 inch black and white with rabbit ears. Most games were on double vision as the reception was horrible.....but hockey was hockey and I was thrilled to be in Massachusetts during that time😊
When my brother played for the Generals in Oshawa in the mid 1970’s...he billeted with the same people Bobby billeted with.....they also happened to own the team....the Humphreys...and more than once Bobby did drop by....even as his career was closing down...
I'll never forget half way thru the 2nd period, my mother said we were going to the beach. I was 10 years old in South Boston glued to Channel 38. I remember some car going by as we were on Carson Beach, they were screaming 'We're Number One' and I knew exactly what happened.
my brother and i would go the garden back in the early 60's before bobby orr hit the scene and the team was a cellar dweller but we loved hockey. then we started hearing about this new player is coming to boston. and then our world changed.
I was Canadiens fan and hated Bruins with passion but respected them so much. Those teams of early 70s were fun to watch and for my money, Bobby Orr is GREATEST player I ever watched. (Gretzky who?)
To this day, Orr is the best most complete all around athlete in the history of North American team sports!
Orr is a joke + Yes I remember the clowns, the Big Bad Losers. 2 Stanley cups, glory of a lifetime ... lol... While Montreal CH won 6 Stanley cups in the 70s + In 1976-77, the Habs lost only eight games during the 80-game season (60-8-12). A record that still stands. (Note: they lost 8 game because the incompetence of the coach S. Bowman. They should have lost only 4 or 5 games this season)
Totally agree Gretzky can't play Defense and OOR could skate around all of them
That's when the Habs had a Monolpoly on the Draft
@@freedom357mag4 ... Totally agree Gretzky & Orr can't play defense and Orr could skate alone around the rink all night long.
I would say he and Howe are the most complete hockey players. Orr is faster but Howe is tougher.
But what about Michael Jordan? He didn’t have any weaknesses.
STILL get chills watching that goal. Watched every game on a 10 inch black and white with a 'custom made' UHF antenna made from genuine coat hanger steel. Good ole TV38.
From a life-long Canucks fan…. this brought a literal tear to my eye. God love the Big Bad Bruins and Bobby Orr.
Even as a die-hard Blackhawks fan, there was something special about that 70s Bruins team. Just a unique bunch of players. And, of course, they had Bobby Orr.
Dryden brought both the Bruins and the Hawks down
@@trevmac8362 .. yes and he was a hell of a hunter !
you had Orr too
@@trevmac8362and the habs have been erelavant for over 30 years 🤡🤡 what's your point. Funny only thing habs fans can do is live in the past.
When Larry bird was with the Celtics he would look up into the rafters during the national anthem, When a reporter asked him if he was looking at the Celtic championship banners he replied no I’m looking at the number 4 for Bobby Orr, I heard he was the greatest! Quite a compliment!
I loved Montreal out of the womb in 1966. I can admit that Orr is the greatest all round player of our time.
Best season ever 69-70 bruins , so great such cool players , and the greatest goal ever scored
Over half a century later, I can still recognize every player by face or number. It's tough to explain now just how much the Bruins *dominated* New England back then ... how youth rinks would book ice time at 3 AM, how once a week the Boston Globe would have a special letter section curated by Phil Esposito (and it'd run at LEAST two whole pages, and I was the happiest kid in Plymouth County the week Phil answered MY letter!)
About 500 rinks were built in Great Boston between 70-74. No team owned Boston like that team.
I was 15 and watched the 1970 game on T.V. in which they won and from that time on I was hooked on playing hockey. I played up to the age of 42 while stationed in Germany on inline skates. Watching this video brought back some good memories.. Thank you!!
One of the greatest photos in sports history
Still watch this about once a week....and still get emotional
What a year…1970! My junior year in high school! My best friend’s aunt had season tickets to the Bruins, and rarely missed a game, even when they were at the bottom of the barrel. When she had to work late she would give Kathy the tickets, so I probably went to 5 or 6 games… my Dad and brothers were so jealous!! I watched Bobby Orr ‘fly’ past the net (after being tripped) with that Stanley Cup winning goal!!! New England went crazy!!! What an amazing time!! This is a great documentary of that time!! We 3v3ncamped out overnight to get tickets to the pre-season games in 1971! Happy times!!!
Still have his first book "Orr On Ice"...given to me as a Christmas gift...think I was 9 or 10 and was the best gift that year above all the toys etc. This video bought me back to a wonderful time as a boy...sincerely, I thank you.
Shaking Bobby's hand was one of the highlights of my life as a kid. I have that picture on a shelf in my office and every time I'm having a hard day, I look at to bring myself back and smile.
I was Rick MacLeish's paperboy as a kid (they lived at 119 Greenvale Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ)
After the Flyers took the '74 cup ? I was collecting money, and he answered the door one time (his wife usually answered & paid for paper delivery...) and I said to him, "I'm collecting money for the Gilles Gilbert fund, Mr. Rick"....
He let out a true belly laugh & said to me, "kid, that was so funny it nearly chased my hangover away"....
Another Flyer, Larry Goodenough, lived on the same road a few years later, maybe '78 or so ?
Good times, and yes- I own a '74 replica Orr jersey.
Just a huge fan of the game- especially then. Bernie Parent & Jim Craig are still my idols !!...
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Bobby Orr was such a unique talent. He not only changed the pace of the game but also brought great success to the Bruins when they had nothing for years!
Sending this to my father
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Sanderson was a beauty
I remember watching this team in the early 70s. I am Habs fan and the Habs did very well against them.
WSBK TV 38. Bruins fans of my generation will never forget watching these games. I watched on a B&W 13" TV.
I was there, there, there - 20 rows back of the goal - favorite day of my whole life - in between the third period and the start of overtime, every single person at the Garden turned to the person next to them and said, "Orr's gonna score."
50 years later and i still get goosebumps watching it, every front door in the meighborhood opened up and we were all screaming our heads off!!
Yes I remember the clowns, the Big Bad Losers. 2 Stanley cups, glory of a lifetime ... lol... While Montreal CH won 6 Stanley cups in the 70s + In 1976-77, the Habs lost only eight games during the 80-game season (60-8-12). A record that still stands. (Note: they lost 8 game because the incompetence of the coach S. Bowman. They should have lost only 4 or 5 games this season)
@@catholiccowboy8545 hey, i'll give it to ya that the habs are most likely the best team in history, and even though i was born in montreal and grew up in mass. i still think orr (a canadian of course) is the best defenseman in nhl history.
@@drjwbriand if you are searching for the best defenseman in NHL history, the only place you're going to find it it's of course with the Montreal CHC. Because what kind of strange Dman was B. Orr, if he ever was a defenseman ?? You mean he was great because he could start his shift or routine on his zone then move the puck by himself all over the rink, miss his shot to the net, pick up the puck back and skate back to his D. zone (with all the other team players on his tail), blocks some shots on his way, then done it over again (always by himself) all over, up side down the rink and wow he shoots he scores. No help wanted ! He should have tried the Ice Capades. He wasn't a defenseman he was defense/offense human-fly rocket. No wonder why Mtl won so many cups with a single man team like the Big Bad Bruins. Americans love so much any show off.
** Serge Savard was what a Dman should be (9 cups)
Ditto!
This is great I’m a Montrealer born in 1961 and my older brother and me were huge Bruin fans at that time. All my friends hated my #4 black Boston jersey. Loved Cheevers mask. Sadly I’m now a fan of Les Canadiens. But that Bruins team always takes me back. 😎
Wheres montreal now
@@agtbruinsman7190 nowhere lol
Summer of '69 was the year my family moved up to Boston. My folks gave me a pair of skates for Christmas and I immediately learned to play ice hockey AND became a fan of Bobby Orr and the Bruins.
While I haven't lived in New England in 43 years I still consider the Bruins of 1970 to be my favorite sports team ever. And I consider myself most blessed to have been a fan of this the greatest sports team in history. With Orr the greatest athlete of all time. These men galvanized New England. They were probably at least as popular as the Beatles were in 1964.
Yes I remember the clowns, the Big Bad Losers. 2 Stanley cups, glory of a lifetime ... lol... While Montreal CH won 6 Stanley cups in the 70s + In 1976-77, the Habs lost only eight games during the 80-game season (60-8-12). A record that still stands. (Note: they lost 8 game because the incompetence of the coach S. Bowman. They should have lost only 4 or 5 games this season)
As an 11 year old kid was lucky enough to be in the Garden for the May 10th, Mother's Day game. This changed my life and the whole city of Boston. Still have the program, still have the mug.
Orr had only 5-6 un- injured seasons. Imagine if he was able to play nonstop into his mid 30’s or so. Would have put up incredible numbers
Sad. To think he came into the 1968-69 season at 18.
His all time plus minus is Plus 124. He won every major award short of the Vezina that Hockey has. That ALONE is staggering. Imagine if he had had Bourque's longevity? Holy Shit
1974-75 was his last great season
@@rf396 Or Gordie Howe’s longevity, whom BOBBY believes, was the best hockey player, EVER.
I think Gordie Howe said it best: losing Bobby Orr was the worst thing that ever happened to the game. What might have been
I was 11 years old in 1970 in NH and my dad would send me up onto the roof of our house to move the uhf antenna into a position where the game would come in. He would yell out of the den window right there, no go back,, for 20 minutes. You just could not miss even one game! It was absolutely incredible, and nothing has matched this era in Boston sports and I suspect never will. Thank you Bobby!
Sure your Dad wasn't trying to get you to fall off the roof for the insurance $$$? j/k - they were great times.
"The Crazy Things We Did in Order to Improve The Frequency For A Better Connection & Service in Order To Watch Our Boston Bruins!" "We Had To Go Through A Simular Process With Our Antennas in Order To Get A Good Reception!"
@@thomaspsanzi8947 I’m a Montrealer born in 61 and used to watch the Bruins Sunday nights on Channel 33 pbs (WHBH?) with a coat hanger for u UHF antenna lol. Bobby was my hero loved my black #4 Boston jersey. It really bugged my friends (who were all Habs fans) I like the Habs now but that Boston team was great. We had an old arena here that was cold and had the best ice and when ever I played there in my head I was in the Gardens. Thanks Boston thanks Bobby and all the rest.
WGBH
@@johngore7744 No, no, no...WGBH was/is a PBS station. They did college hockey at one time, but no pro stuff. It was WSBK for the Bruins. Otherwise, you backslider! How dare you utter the devil's name (Habs) in same sentence as our sacred Boston Bruins! You should be tossed into the Trough of Justice!
As a Montreal fan for 50 years I love Bobby Orr as a player and person ! Boston vs Montreal was great entertainment ! Great memories !
Yes but the Habs lifted 8 cups during Orrs 12 years in the league showing you how weak the competition was back then. The Leafs and Habs missed the playoffs in 1970 pretty much giving the cup to the only single real team left🤷🏼. The Leafs had a line called The Over the Hill Line in the late 60’s. A young Orr was competing against old men🤣
@@ghytgb tell me that you were kidding... Orrs 12 years were actually 8 as his 1st year before Espo & Co. was traded and he barely played his last 3 seasons (not a single playoff game). And the Leafs were nothing to compare to the Rangers or Black Hawks in early 70s (who knows what would happen if not poor playoff Giacomin goaltending and that 1971 accident goal against Tony).... But you melted my heart by having Dennis as your avatar
Because Montreal cleaned their clocks every time they met right ?.....
@@mikemyros4142 The worst thing for the 70's Bruins were the 70's Habs !
Still the greatest arch rivalry in pro sports history bar none.
i agree bobby orr is the goat,his timeless talent and brilliant creativity, made me the hockey player i was ,i had his poster in my bedroom where i laced my skates the same way he did and i loved the game like he did,what a privelidge to grow up watching the bruins, ps im from philly.
We used to flatten a tennis ball and where out our hockey sticks playing street hockey all year. No net, no boards, just a couple of rocks for the goal crease. Two or three hours after school, and most of the day a lot of times during summer.
We did too and we were allowed to keep our sticks at the back of the classroom
Used to have to get my runners from the lost and found at school ,I'd wear out a pair in less than a month.
We used to use a plastic
We used a rubber puck on snowy days
This kind of hockey was/is FAR more entertaining than what they are selling today.
Awesome day to wake up to Boston Bruins history!
Back in the day , as a young kid on the major mud show 😂😂 there was nothing bigger for us kids, than street hockey , thanks to these great players, love you Bobby, Derick, pie eye and Esposito and all my idols growing up 👍👍👍😂😂✌️✌️Wow thanks for the memories, channel 38 that was an antenna balancing nightmare 😂😂 thank you for such great memories 👍👍👍
I was thinking about Chanel 38 while watching this. Our color TV downstairs didn’t have a UHF tuner . My mother had a small black and white TV that picked up UHF in her upstairs bedroom. You should’ve seen the antenna enhancements we did so we could get the signal. Like Howey Long and Dennis Leary said our faces were 2 ft. From the screen. And when SupORRman sored thru the air the whole neighborhood went off like 4th of July fireworks 💥
@@terrabull-shitty5832 Hello Terra, I had to come back and relive the memories 😂😂, it’s like a Christmas present 🎁🎁
I remember... Habs fans from Montreal, Bobby Orr was the greatest pure talent I ever saw... They were Béliveau but that was different, he was the gentleman, puck handling like only he could do, but it was different... Boby Orr was different, never a defence ever played before like him... after he played all was different... but this was pure talent... he really did float on ice as others were just skating...
I am a Bruins fan born in 76 so I never saw them play. But the reality is I can name more players from those teams than I can from Bruins teams I actually watched play.
Those were the best years of my life, watching the B's on T.V. 38, and if I was lucky enough for my father to get tickets, I would look so forward to going and sitting at the old Boston Garden which was so small that you were so close to the ice.
fred cusick and johnny peirson, the best
the old buildings were the best atmosphere
With Don Earle doing play by play.
The greatest photograph in NHL history...Bobby doing the Superman after scoring the Cup winning goal.
to this day after all these years I have never ever seen a pro athlete of any sport doing an almost perfect super man leap on a hard floor, sweet Lord!
he was actually tripped as the blues player put his stick in between his ice skate blade.
@@waynejohanson1083 hahaha, most celebrated trip of joy if there ever was one,😆
Yes Orr flying through the air just after sweeping the St Loser Blues while outscoring the Blues old goalie Glenn Hall 24-6 with the Leafs and Habs out of the playoffs that year. Yes that statue is very well deserved 🤣
@@waynejohanson1083 know who Tripped him ?
Al Arbour !
Boston was home to an impressive line up of greats including: Tom Brady, Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Carl Yastrzemski, Roger Clemens and Ted Williams, yet Bobby Orr sits atop them all in the hearts of New Englanders.
That,sMe at 12,31 getting scored on .i was the goalie with the Seals,Proud to be in this video,Loved going into the aBoston Garden,Gerry Cheevers was my lifetime Idol and Great friend.I know Only One thing in my Life for Sure.Bobby Orr was the Greatest Athlete that ever lived or ever will live. Gary Smith
I love hockey I grew up in San Diego with WHASan Diego Mariners but I love the NHL and the Boston bruins were fun to watch Bobby Orr and especially when they played the Philadelphia flyers Dave Schultz for those guys would fight and have a hell of a game those were the good old days keep up the good work I love this channel
44:24 Still gives me Full Body Goosebumps. The Standard for Boston Bruins Hockey.
Then, Now and Forever.
Long Live, "The Big Bad Bruins".
But they were all Canadian
@@danwhyte3524 that's true but they were bostonians to us. what ever we were doing on game night the bruins came first.
no bruins team or any nhl team since comes close to that group in my mind anyway.
At 11 years old I was a goalie in a small town an hour from Parry Sound trying to play a game we played on the lake with kids from our community because our arena was basically a big farmers equipment shelter with electric heaters hanging from the roof and maybe room for 110 or so parents. That year was my worst as most of the guys were huge and I was the only sucker to go in the net. We went to Parry Sound for the tri-town series and their arena was massive as Orr built the town an arena that year after the big win and man it was electric we thought we were truly REAL players haha. Played for 20 some years in the net and watched many a cup series routing for Toronto still am today so I Love this game from a kid and met Bobby and his brothers years after playing hockey in Muskoka and those memories are still great times thanks to that kid from Parry-Hoot. Great family from good strong roots in Canada like many players today like the Great one we make the game from our youth, its our sport -PERIOD Americans can have their football and baseball. Loved the video it was amazing memories TY.
Fantastic video! Bobby Orr’s team👍 Unreal how he played…. How many levels above everyone else. Best player Ever to play the game: bar none👍👍
Yup and the records are gretzkys
That’s the shame of the nhl
I was at that game! It is one of the highlights of my life and I have the picture. A few years later I met Bobby when he visited my high school (Dedham High) and got his autograph. I now live in California and still follow the Boston Bruins games.
I grew up with Bobby Orr, I used to cut articles out of the newspapers, anything about Bobby I had it. He was my hero. Oh , I forgot to tell you I was from Montreal.
He was great when playing against those weak ass AHL quality teams that filled up the league but when facing the Habs he looked like he was in High School🤷🏼
@@ghytgb are you near sighted ?
Funny thing the Bruins manhandled Montreal during the season, in the playoffs it was different.
@@appletile2887 it was that way against the Canadiens forever like the too many men on the ice game in game 7 in 1979
Les Habitants have not had a decent hockey team since 1993.
Then the only competition for the Cup was the L.A. Kings with The Great One and not much else.
I was a teen when this team won the Stanley Cup. They won two while I was in high school. Growing up in the Boston area until I was 9, then moved to Mississippi, where there is no hockey, no one else where I lived even understood hockey, so I celebrated alone. Since that time, I became a fan of wearing caps so naturally I looked for a Bruin cap. Never found one., for decades. I lived in Dallas and Florida in later years and still never found a Bruins cap. Christmas of 2010, I am living in Columbus Georgia and go into a hat store in the local mall and there it is. My Bruins cap. And they had TWO!! I spent my last 25 bucks for it, I had looked for one for 35 years or so. Now I had one. And wouldnt you know it? The year I find my cap, the Bruins win another Stanley Cup, after a 39 year drought. So, even though I know I had nothing to do with it, I am gonna claim a bit of responsibility since the year I found my cap, the Bruins win another cup. LOL And I am taking that to the bank.
Thanks for sharing your story. Hockey is number one sport here in Canada and always will be.
That's an amazing story. Some things just are meant to happen
Great story!
Hockey before 1980 sucked
@@ghytgb Guess Les Habitants you are usually on about were lousy teams winning 4 Stanley Cups in a row in the 50s and 1976-79.
Just viewed this; I got hooked on hockey in 1966 in N. Jersey as a big Rangers fan. I just wasn't aware of how connected Boston was w/ the Bruins, until seeing this video, tonight. Was moved to L.A. in 1967, the first year the Kings had a franchise, so still a big fan of the game, seeing the Kings finally win 2 Cups in 2 years, about 10 yrs. ago. Winding down now, in retirement, so not as close to the game since Gretzky retired and since the Kings finally won their 2 Cups.😊
I listened to Johnny Most under my blanket 👍🏻🍀🇺🇸👊🏻
Great years! I started playing hockey in 1971 so I was watching games on TV. My uncle lived in Mass and was a well respected hockey coach. He bought me a record album of some of the play by play of the 1972 series against the Russians that I used to play on my little victrola.
Ken Hodge had the most wicked slap shot I had ever seen, he was a big man, with Espo, Cashman and Hodge, man that line was amazing
Yes that line really gave it to the Seals, Barons and the other ten to fifteen pathetic teams back then. So great🤣
uhm, Bobby Hull. Problem was, nobody saw it.
Trivia: Wayne Cashman was the last player who played in the original 6 to retire ( 1983)
yeah but he was spastic
Wow just watched this again with my kids , boy do your eyes become teary, just amazing
Most complete player ever. Wayne never threw a check, blocked a shot, or fought. Never saw Wayne skate backwards. Five Orrs vs five Wayne's, number 4 wins every time.
The 1970 Bruins with Orr, Turk, Hodge, and Esposito were unstoppable! They were fun to watch as a kid!
What a great documentary, I've watched it so many times
Jean Beliveau's goal in the second OT (23:36) was the only goal he ever scored in OT in his career. This was a very tense game--it started on a Thursday night and didn't end until the early hours of a Friday morning--the Bruins were devastated losing this game and carried that determination into the 1969-70 season when they won the Stanley Cup (Montreal actually missed the playoffs that year when they lost a critical game to Chicago on the last day of the season)
This brought back such great memories!!!! Outstanding special.
There will never be a greater more complete talent on offense, and defense, like Bobby Orr
Look at these legends. Bobby Orr was my childhood hero. My family couldn't afford for me to play hockey, so I played soccer and I insisted on being on defense because of #4.
Sadly, Bobby Orr missed the all-time great Canada/USSR '72 Series. But the way he played in the 1976 Canada Cup was a thing of beauty. On bad knees, which basically sabotaged the rest of his career. What a player. The GOAT!!!
This Orr was pure gold for the city of Boston and the hockey world.
"Bobby Orr Woke Up The City Of Boston to The Game Of Hockey Like No Other!"
Habs fan here. Amazing video. Great work. Loved it.
These guys weren't hockey players, these guys were rock stars!
Only D man to win the scoring title...twice. greatest off all time.
Jean Beliveau related a story of how a few years later he and his wife were in Boston during the summer and they were walking by Fenway Park as a game between the Red Sox and Yankees was going on--a ticket taker recognized him and immediately ushered them into seats right behind the Red Sox bench--despite defeating the Bruins in many games during the course of his career Mr. Beliveau was deeply respected even in Boston
you mean behind the dugout, but this 'aint about jean the don, it about the B'S
I was 15 in 1970. We lived in Brookline. I distinctly remember being relieved that we didn't have to go through the Canadiens to get to the Stanley Cup. We just couldn't beat them back then.
Appetantly Beliveau was an excellent baseball player and was close to pro level.
Another interesting tidbit about Orr as told by Beliveau was that when the Canadiens lined up for a faceoff against the Bruins, the placement of their players was due solely to where Orr was, not any of his teammates.
@@rftulie ... True. Orr's Bruins NEVER beat Montreal in the playoffs, despite three tries: in '68, '69, & '71.
This is what is called a storybook season, great video
This was awesome it brought back so many memories. I have been a Bruins fan since I was 9 years old just before Bobby Orr started playing. My friend and I were the only Bruins fans in our area everyone else was either Leaf fans or the dreaded Habs fans. I have had a lot of Bruins memorabilia over the years. My favorite piece is of that famous goal. I found an vintage frame that had a large picture and a mirror on either side. That famous picture is now the center piece and the mirrors are gone and replaced with some of my favorite Bruins players cards. I am planning to move out of the country when I retire at the end of year and have to travel light so can't take it with me but will always be a Big Bad Bruins fan.
I love this documentary--and I'm a lifelong Rangers' fan. I read about Bobby Orr as a kid, after he retired and heard all these amazing stories about him. The thing that stands out most is his humility--how he used to put his head down after he scored so as not to embarrass the goalie. We desperately need a Bobby Orr in all major sports. The thing that struck me was that when the guys were telling Bobby Orr stories, he still had his head bowed. What a great man and hockey player!
This is one of the best attributes was how humble Orr was.
One coach asked him why he had an open net but passed the puck to a kid who only had 3 goals all season in juniors.
Bobby said " we were up 6 to 2, I figured it might help him out."
The best compliment I ever heard about Bobby Orr was that he was a better person than a hockey player.
It may have been Derek Sanderson who said that but I'm not sure.
Saw the Bruins tie the Rangers 2-2 on Dec. 3, 1966 at the Garden. Orr got an assist on the first goal - great memory.
Funny but i don't remember seeing Orr in his defensive zone very often. He was all over the ice like a Ice Capade skater but very rarely on defense. Conclusion Orr was a forward player and surely not a defenseman hense a horrible defense player.
** And In the meantime Mtl won the cups. Montreal has always had at least 4 or 5 Orrs on its team.
@@catholiccowboy8545Montreal had zero Orr's on their team and failed to win the 1970 cup - funny.
@@northernlight696 .. lol... You watch too much curling .... Do you know that the Leafs have not won anything for half a century?
@@catholiccowboy8545 Poor Leafs - maybe Orr should not have scored so much against the Leafs. Possibly he hurt their feelings by helping to eliminate them - so sad
I started watching The Bruins in late 70s. Playing the old table hockey Bruins v Canadians was the team's. We would make pucks from small chunks of wood and sand them down. Game on! Special Special memories
Best hockey era was the late 60's and early 70's. Habs and Bruins rivalry was incredible and it was a true passion for their respective fans. Derek Sanderson was certainly the best face-off player in the history of the game and of course Bobby Orr was the greatest (and still is) of all time. But the Habs record speaks for itself and they had so many "greats" throughout their storied history and they always commanded respect from the players and the fans. I remember being in BeanTown one time and getting a tour of the old Boston Gardens. The guide told me that during the playoffs staff would shut down the air conditioning on the visiting Canadiens just to make them suffer a little more during those warm & muggy spring nights. Ha Ha ... gotta support your team somehow eh??? 😁
"Excellent Documentary on Some of The Greatest Players That Ever Played The Game of Hockey!"
I bought equipment with his name on it when I was a kid. I watched Mr. Orr do phenomenal things on the ice. I met Bobby Orr at a Special Olympics event (c. 1984-85) at Maguire AFB in New Jersey. We had a chance to speak. Bobby Orr is a mensch.
Dennis , shoulder pads was not the issue young hockey players followed - he didn’t wear socks and just 2 strips of tape on the stick blade - that was the recipe !!!
I’m a dye hard Montreal fan but I have to admit this was an excellent video, I just loved it.
The reason Bobby was so great is because of his humility. He and Espo born and raised on Canada's great white north. Listen to him speak always about others and not about himself. His skating was based on playing on wide open ponds from a young tender age. This is why he could skate circles around everyone. His heavy shot from making his own pucks. The sobre one always helping his team mates get home as many of them loved their alcohol. Like the great goal scorer Mike Bossy his career ended far to soon. I will never forget the 4 minute standing ovation when he retired at the Boston Garden.
Still my favorite hockey team of all time. I have also met and talked to several of these players including ORR, ESPOSITO, BUCYK and SANDERSON.
I'm in New York and a big Ranger fan and i remember that Stanley Cup and i loved the Bruins to me still love the original six
I was 13 when they won the cup, but watching Bobby in his rookie year set the stage for a love of hockey that still burns bright today as I still play at 66. My thirst to want to watch him and the Big, Bad, Bruins has never waned.
I was born January 30 1969 and Bobby Orr was on the cover of Sports Illustrated for that week. I used to hope it was a premonition for my future but it didn't take long for me to realize city leagues were where I was going to top out, :P. It was still something cvool to bring up every 10 years or so, lol.
Other than the Montreal Canadiens of the 1970s this was the greatest team to watch ever. Orr is and was the GOAT.
As a kid not quite 8 years old, I became a lifelong Bruins fan in May 1970, whether I lived in Winnipeg, Pittsburgh, Vancouver or Philadelphia...
I played hockey back in the day. Des Moines IA. We went to St. Louis to visit my Godparents who were probably early 40's. Die hard Cardinal fans (at that time baseball and football). Die hard Blues fans. But, boy when Bobby Orr got brought up they were all in.
No team ever in the history of Boston had this big of an impact on the city.
I learned to love hockey by listening to the radio in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia as a 13 year old kid with a transistor radio.
WBZ came through at night as I followed the game and heard the Boston crowds and the names Orr, Espo, Bucyk Hodge et al.
Then in 1974 I was sad to see the Flyers best the Bruins .
Then 3 months later my dad got Lou Gehrigs Disease and my change to adulthood came sudden as the Bruins fall from the top.
My father died less than 2 years later.
Saw Bobby Orr play as a shell of his former self as a Blackhawk at an Atlanta Flames games couple of years later.
I was 16 years old watching the Stanley Cup playoffs at my best friend's house my twin brother and another high school friend in Hull, MA. We'd be playing spades before the game started. Then we'd hear the familiar instrumental intro song. We'd pause the game and made our way into the living room to watch the game (I believe on channel 38 WSBK Boston). We'd go back to spades in between periods. Most high school kids wore Bruins jerseys. We went crazy when Bobby Orr scored in overtime to win the Stanley Cup. I joined the Air Force in 1973 finished basic training and my tech school and now was enroute to my first duty assignment. I was in my Air Force blues uniform at Logan International Airport heading to my departure gate when I passed the gate where the Bruins were waiting for their flight. Terry O'Reilly made eye contact with me and said "hey red." I was a 6'4 redhead. I stopped to say hello and then he introduced me to all of the Bruins. Was thanked for my service and then had to head to my gate. Unfortunately I had no camera and got no autographs but I was left with the greatest sports memory of my life. Meeting my hockey heroes made for the best day ever.
Funny but i don't remember seeing Orr in his defensive zone very often. He was all over the ice like a Ice Capade skater but very rarely on defense. Conclusion Orr was a forward player and surely not a defenseman hense a horrible defense player.
** And In the meantime Mtl won the cups. Montreal has always had at least 4 or 5 Orrs on its team.
@Catholic Cowboy , Sounds like you're just a hater. If you heard all of the greats from other NHL teams that played during this tike they've all said that Orr was the greatest defenseman ever. However, you're entitled to your own opinion.
@@brucevidito4923 ... I don't hate Orr, he was a great h. player but obviously a lousy defenseman. The Bruins were a 4 offensive players team when Orr on the ice. Certainly not the all time greatest defense player you are all talking about. I'm just fed up. Greatest about what exactly ?? For me the Bruins were a single player team .. road to disaster .. lol .. At the same time Montreal was truly great with 6 cups and twice they had a season of 8 games and 10 games lost. And some great defensemen on the the ice, Serge Savard leading the way with 9 cups. (it should not be hidden that Orr was a PR targeting Americans because they loved show off ... lol ...)
Johnny Bucyk nicknamed: 'Chief' was Ukrainian. He was awesome! We share the same day in May (but many many years apart! LoL) I grew up idolizing Bobby, Phil, JB, Wayne, Cheevers. My second pair of hockey gloves were Cooper BBP. Black and white. Boston Bruins pro.
This brought tears to my eyes.
man why the hell did i have to be born in 87 🤦🏼♂️….. Hockey is the best pure sport and hands down the one of the toughest sports.
Growing up watching Hockey all i ever heard about is the 1970 Bruins and how they were the Beast of the East
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! I live outside of the NESN area and have been waiting for this. Love it!
you said it!
"We Are All Subscribers To NESN So Just Advance This All To Them!" "I Already Did & They Stated They Were Going To Bring it Up For Conversation Recognizing Those Players During The Two, Now Three Stanley Cup Series & And Playoffs Leading Up To The Current History of The Boston Bruins in Which Actually Is Already Aired On The Program!" (But Just Just My Own Initial Questions & Adjustment Of Anyone's Personal Conversations But my Own"
My Fav, Johnny " Pie " Mckenzie, I remember he fought Dennis Hull, Hull came out with a bloddy face and Pie, as always was pushing his shoulder pads because he was so small, LOVED THE MAN, RIP Johnny, as long as live, you will never be forgotten ( 19 ).......
What a great documentary. I too remember watching the B's on my 13 inch black and white with rabbit ears. Most games were on double vision as the reception was horrible.....but hockey was hockey and I was thrilled to be in Massachusetts during that time😊
what a thrill to see this film,thank you!
When my brother played for the Generals in Oshawa in the mid 1970’s...he billeted with the same people Bobby billeted with.....they also happened to own the team....the Humphreys...and more than once Bobby did drop by....even as his career was closing down...
This was simply superb.Thank you for this upload.
I'll never forget half way thru the 2nd period, my mother said we were going to the beach. I was 10 years old in South Boston glued to Channel 38. I remember some car going by as we were on Carson Beach, they were screaming 'We're Number One' and I knew exactly what happened.
my brother and i would go the garden back in the early 60's before bobby orr hit the scene and the team was a cellar dweller but we loved hockey. then we started hearing about this new player is coming to boston. and then our world changed.
I was Canadiens fan and hated Bruins with passion but respected them so much. Those teams of early 70s were fun to watch and for my money, Bobby Orr is GREATEST player I ever watched. (Gretzky who?)
Thank you so much for this!!
Mike Eruzione's goal in 80 wasn't too shabby either 😉
For sure, but apples & oranges comparison
This is a great documentary