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Earlier this year, while the Boston Bruins were roaring toward an Eastern Division title in the National Hockey League, Star Defenseman Bobby Orr was asked to do a TV commercial. It would have shown him making a sloppy play because he hadn't eaten his Wheaties. His attorney, Alan Eagleson, disdainfully rejected the idea. "Bobby Orr," said Eagleson, "does not get paid to make mistakes...
...Under Coach Thomas Johnson, a former Montreal defenseman, Boston is an awesomely versatile and balanced club, capable of dizzying speed and split-second playmaking. Its popular image, though, is of a body-checking, fist-swinging style of play that delights the fans and keeps the players in stitches. BOBBY ORR AND THE ANIMALS PLAY TONIGHT, say the headlines when Boston comes to town. In one of the many scraps during their Stanley Cup opener, Bad Boy Defenseman Don Awrey twisted the neck of Canadien Marc Tardif's sweater so tightly that Tardif's breathing...
...what will happen when the little guys watching the T.V. see Orr and Espo mixing it up against the boards? Freud couldn't have dreamed of worse...
...years there have been only two Bobby's in NHL hockey, Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull, and they have done for hockey what Buster Brown did for shoes. The B's without Orr would be like Popeye without his spinach, and picturing the Hawks without Hull is like imagining a trio of Huey, Luey, and Garfinkel Duck. But Bruins coach Tom Johnson announced the unbelievable after last night's game with the Canadiens: Bobby Orr and Dallas Smith must send their skate sizes to the Hawks' equipment manager before the Stanley Cup playoffs. In return, Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Dennis...
...skeptical ears listening to the "pie-in-the-sky" trade deal last night. Nobody gets anything without giving up a lot, that's granted, but not even Edward, Duke of Windsor, who gave up his crown for love, handed over more valuable goods than those two golden skates of Orr...