This Day In Bobby Orr

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On this day in 1966, in a scrimmage during his first training camp with the Bruins, Orr, wearing infamous #27, does not give puck to a circling back, and highly peripatetic center (eight teams, six numbers over 18 yr career), Wayne Connelly, behind his own net.

Instead.

He goes end-to-end and finishes by undressing Gerry Cheevers with a back-to-fore-to-backhander high over frozen glove side shoulder.

Ted Green, turned inside-out on the play himself, snickers at statue goalie....

Cheevers comes back to life; implants Northland logo on Green's ankles.

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