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"To students of Bobby Orr, the spectacular has become routine, and the routine has become unacceptable. One of a defenseman's primary jobs is to get the puck out of his own end and down the ice, and some players carry out this task with all the grace and ease of a starving man eating a pomegranate through a screen door. Orr does it routinely."
Text by Jack Olsen
In 1970 Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins radically redefined the role of the NHL defenseman. As the first "offensive" blueliner, he set the single-season assists record with 87, lead the league in scoring with 33 goals, and was named MVP. His famous "flying goal" -- scored as he leaped horizontally across the crease -- clinched the Bruins' Stanley Cup sweep of the St. Louis Blues in overtime of Game 4.
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