Before Wayne Gretzky, three names topped the lists of the greatest hockey players: Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, and Bobby Orr.

Bobby Orr's name is indelibly linked with the Boston Bruins as their legendary #4. With 915 career points in the National Hockey League (NHL), including 270 career goals and 645 career assists, this defenseman revolutionized hockey by being highly efficient in the offense as well.

Born on March 20, 1948, in the small town of Parry Sound in Ontario, Canada, Robert Gordon Orr, the third child of Arva Steele and amateur athlete Douglas Orr, was named after a paternal grandfather who had been a professional soccer player in Ireland. At the age of four, he began skating and playing "shinny," a good training game for stick handling, dodging, passing, and controlling the puck. From the age of five he played hockey in the Minor Squirt Hockey league, becoming...