[124] To prevent conflicts of interest, Orr sold an investment in the Lowell Lock Monsters minor pro hockey team[125] and cut his ties with a credit card firm that had a contract with the NHLPA. Orr broke with his agent Alan Eagleson and sued the Black Hawks to settle his contract. In 1976, Orr left Boston as a free agent to join the Black Hawks, but repeated injuries had effectively destroyed his left knee, and he retired in 1978 at age 30. In 1970, he was presented with the Lou Marsh Trophy that is given to honour Canada's top athletes. All salary and dollar figures from his signing with Boston are in, Cowles, Gregory (October 25, 2013) "Inside the List", His game-winning overtime goal ending the 1970 Stanley Cup finals, National Hockey League Players' Association, Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, SportsCentury: 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century, List of NHL players with 100-point seasons, "Wasserman acquires Acme, adds to growing hockey agency division", "Boston's savior Bobby Orr commands respect, high price at 18", "Consumer Price Index, annual average, not seasonally adjusted", "Consumer Price Index by product group, monthly, percentage change, not seasonally adjusted, Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit", "Bobby Orr's Gold Boston Bruins Puck Given to Alan Eagleson in the 1970s", "Bobby Orr Tweets Congrats to Cale Makar", "Bobby Orr reveals some of his secrets in book", "Legends of Hockey - Spotlight - Brad Park - the Pinnacle", "Orr bows out of coaching in Top Prospects Game", "Bruins Legends Bobby Orr, Milt Schmidt Take Part In Special Puck Drop Ceremony", "For Bobby Orr, family tops glory days on ice", "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement", "Diamond Jubilee Gala toasts exceptional Canadians", "NHL & WHA Career Leaders and Records for Plus/Minus", "Cole: Bobby Orr was The One, not The Great One", "Top N. American athletes of the century", "NHL & WHA Single Season Leaders and Records for Plus/Minus", "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bachelor", "The Ever Elusive, Always Inscrutable And Still Incomparable Bobby Orr", History of the NHL on United States television, Historical NHL over-the-air television broadcasters, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby_Orr&oldid=1152507793, Canadian people of Ulster-Scottish descent, National Hockey League players with retired numbers, Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2021, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2018, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2010, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. [80] Years later, it emerged that Eagleson had very good relations with Black Hawks owner Bill Wirtz and NHL president John Ziegler that colluded to hold back salaries of certain players. [149], In 1970, Orr received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. "[101] Orr also benefited from playing most of his career in Boston Garden, which was 9 feet (2.7m) shorter than the standard NHL rink. Of course it resonates, Howard. Doug Orr met Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson at a juvenile fastball tournament dinner in Parry Sound and asked Eagleson to help out with the situation. Social media did what social media does. Bobby Orr Public Signing - Facebook The Bruins also added rookies Glen Sather and Derek Sanderson, developing a more aggressive image that led to the nickname of the 'Big Bad Bruins.
