| |
 |
|
 |
| |
| Sports Talk - Title Town Sports Talk - Our Home for the 2004/2007 World Champion Red Sox, Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX Champion Patriots! SEVENTEEN TIME NBA Champion Boston Celtics, 2011 winners of Lord Stanley's Cup Boston Bruins!!! |
 |
07-07-2011, 08:22 PM
|
#1
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
|
So it's just really starting to sink in what the Bruins accomplished this year with a great playoff run and winning the cup.
I thought I would never see them win anything again in my life as long as Jacobs owned the team. I had Gord Kluzak on a charter last year and he told me the same !
So with the Bruins winning it all anyone think less of Bobby's career and that he is the greatest ?
Me, he's still the greatest player ever !
He can also add greatest team motivator with waving the Horton flag !
|
LETS GO BRANDON
|
|
|
|
07-08-2011, 07:29 AM
|
#2
|
|
Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
So it's just really starting to sink in what the Bruins accomplished this year with a great playoff run and winning the cup.
I thought I would never see them win anything again in my life as long as Jacobs owned the team. I had Gord Kluzak on a charter last year and he told me the same !
So with the Bruins winning it all anyone think less of Bobby's career and that he is the greatest ?
Me, he's still the greatest player ever !
He can also add greatest team motivator with waving the Horton flag !
|
Here's the way I look at it, and the bottom line is, nothing detracts from the greatness of Orr.
Of the 3 Cups that the B's have won in my lifetime, this one was far and away the most satisfying. Just because this was the Little Engine That Could--a team that overachieved, and beat more talented teams to win it.
Orr's Bruins were one of the great underachievers in sports history. The only other team I can think of that compares is the Oakland A's of the late 1980s, who won one WS with what was far and away the best team in baseball for 3 years running. The Bruins were arguably the best team in the NHL for 5 straight years, 1968-1972. It's really a close call whether they were better than the 68 and 69 Habs teams that beat them in the Eastern finals, but in 71 they were the greatest offensive machine assembled in that era of the NHL. You can chalk it up to the Octopus if you want, but great teams don't let a goaltender beat them. Those Big, Bad Bruins were a totally undisciplined mob off the ice, and often on the ice. They coasted into the playoffs that year, and when the playoffs started, they thought that all they had to do to win the Cup was show up. Two Cups in 3 years sounds fine on paper, but they should have been one of the sport's greatest dynasties for 5 years running. But------none of this was Orr's fault. He played at a very high level in all of those series. And his off-the-ice habits weren't like guys like Espo, Sanderson and McKenzie, who never saw a bar they could pass without stopping in for a few.
It's also a different era. More teams, more dilution of talent, and a salary cap. The playing field is more level, and 4th seeds and lower do have a realistic chance at the Cup.
Nope---he's still the greatest. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
|
|
|
|
|
07-08-2011, 07:36 AM
|
#3
|
|
Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,642
|
robert gordon orr #4. the greatest ever period. everytime i watch old film i get goosebumps.
|
|
|
|
|
|
07-08-2011, 07:51 AM
|
#4
|
|
Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
|
And let's not forget that he was playing on a knee that had already seen two major surgeries by the 1970 season...... Imagine if he had been really healthy throughout his career.....
|
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
|
|
|
|
|
07-08-2011, 07:58 AM
|
#5
|
|
Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
|
I hadn't remembered this.....sucks.
Orr's first professional contract was one of the first in professional ice hockey to be negotiated by an agent. It made him the highest-paid player in NHL history as a rookie.[4] His second contract was the first million-dollar contract in the NHL. However, after his retirement, Orr learned that he was deeply in debt and he had to sell off most of what he owned. Orr broke with his agent Alan Eagleson and sued the Black Hawks to settle his contract. Orr and his family returned to Boston where Orr went into business to rebuild his finances. Orr aided the investigations that led to Eagleson's fraud convictions and disbarment. Orr also supported the law suit that exposed the corruption of the NHL's pension plan.
|
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
|
|
|
|
|
03-20-2014, 01:52 PM
|
#6
|
|
Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
|
Happy Birthday to the GREATEST ever!
|
The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
|
|
|
|
|
03-20-2014, 08:13 PM
|
#7
|
|
BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
|
Happy 66th Birthday to the greatest sports legend this town has ever seen! May he enjoy many more....he deserves them!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
|
|
|
|
|
03-20-2014, 08:57 PM
|
#8
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
|
|
LETS GO BRANDON
|
|
|
|
|
03-20-2015, 11:22 AM
|
#9
|
|
Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
|
Still the GREATEST
Happy Birthday to the best hockey player ever and a hell of a good guy  |
The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:00 PM.
|
| |
Hybrid Mode