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...Orr apparently couldn't make out the screams of "PUT IT ON! PUT IT ON!" but obliged the crowd when Eagleson leaned over and passed on the message. He removed his suit and replaced it with the sweater he wore so well, ending his career in proper fashion: Boston black and gold instead of Chicago black...
Mere recitation of the countless awards and records that are his could not do justice to the admiration, affection and just plain awe Orr inspired during his decade with Boston. While Orr's No. 4 now appears majestically over the ice, the number of fellow former Bruin Phil Esposito, whose statistical achievements are just as impressive, can be found on the jersey of Bill Bennett, a rookie just sent down to the minors...
Though Espo could convert rebounds with his eyes closed, it was Orr whose spectacular rink-length dashes, beautiful set-ups and wicked slapshots captured the hearts and minds of hockey fans everywhere as he led Boston to the title after 29 years of cellar-dwelling and frustration...
...Orr's best remembered moment, of course, came at the Garden on May 10, 1970, when he wristed a Stanley Cupwinning shot past Glenn Hall of St. Louis after 40 seconds of overtime, and then sailed gleefully through the air, his stick upraised and his mouth opened in a shout of happiness as the arena erupted...
...since I lived near New York during the Orr Era, a different goal of his is frozen in my mind, rather painfully in fact. Then a Ranger fan (the Islanders didn't exist yet), I was incredibly psyched on the evening of May 11, 1972 for game six of the Cup finals between Boston and New York. Though the Bruins led the series three games to two, the blueshirts had two nights earlier grabbed a tight contest on Boston ice and hopes were high that the New Yorkers could return the series to Beantown in search of their first...