DID BOBBY ORR EVER WEAR DIFFERENT NUMBER
matt....@nitebeats.com
TO Ron Philip:
If I am not mistaken, I have seen picture of Bobby with Harry Sinden
at the bench. He was wearing sweater number 27.
Matt
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Chris King
> TO Ron Philip:
> If I am not mistaken, I have seen picture of Bobby with Harry Sinden
> at the bench. He was wearing sweater number 27.
> Matt
I've seen that picture, too. I think it was a preseason shot from his
first training camp. I think he was in #4 to start that season and I
don't think he ever wore another number in real play.
CK
Liam Maguire
book I have a picture of him wearing 27. Junior Langlois suffered an eye
injury forcing him to retire thereby freeing up number four which Orr took
prior to the beginning of the season.
Liam Maguire
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Allan McDonald 5-1713 #neptune
: matt....@NiteBeats.com wrote:
: > TO Ron Philip:
: > If I am not mistaken, I have seen picture of Bobby with Harry Sinden
: > at the bench. He was wearing sweater number 27.
: > Matt
: I've seen that picture, too. I think it was a preseason shot from his
: first training camp. I think he was in #4 to start that season and I
: don't think he ever wore another number in real play.
: CK
Orr wore #27 in minor and while playing for the Oshawa Generals in the OHL.
When he joined the Bruins he wanted #2, but that number had been retired
(it was Eddie Shore's number).
I'm not sure why Orr did not go back to 27, but it might be because the
teams used to have their defensemen as the low numbers on their teams
and the forwards listed afterwards. This changed post expansion but it
might be the reason Orr went to #4 and not #27.
I believe the reason that the number used to be important was because,
in much earlier days of the NHL, certain players could not penetrate
certain zones and the numbers allowed the officials to determine if there
had been an infraction of that rule. I might be wrong in this, but I seem
to remember my Dad saying something like that years ago...
Allan
Alex A Goddard
: Orr wore #27 in minor and while playing for the Oshawa Generals in the OHL.
: When he joined the Bruins he wanted #2, but that number had been retired
: (it was Eddie Shore's number).
Wrong. Orr wore #2 with the Generals.
: I'm not sure why Orr did not go back to 27, but it might be because the
: teams used to have their defensemen as the low numbers on their teams
: and the forwards listed afterwards. This changed post expansion but it
: might be the reason Orr went to #4 and not #27.
: I believe the reason that the number used to be important was because,
: in much earlier days of the NHL, certain players could not penetrate
: certain zones and the numbers allowed the officials to determine if there
: had been an infraction of that rule. I might be wrong in this, but I seem
: to remember my Dad saying something like that years ago...
Well, you're wrong about Orr's number with the Generals, to begin with.
Alex
Liam Maguire
bar...@email.sps.mot.com says...
>
>li...@magi.com (Liam Maguire) writes:
>
> That is basically correct. Orr wore both 27 and 30 at training camp.
In my
> book I have a picture of him wearing 27. Junior Langlois suffered an
eye
> injury forcing him to retire thereby freeing up number four which Orr
took
> prior to the beginning of the season.
>
>Was it a league rule, or just a "convention", back then that had
>defensemen wearing either low numbers (6 or below) and high numbers
>(maybe 24 or above)? I wonder about this every time I see players
>wearing numbers in the 40's and above, since that just wasn't done
>when I first starting watching hockey in the early 70's.
>
No league rule but it was conventional. The defensemen would wear usually
a lower number. Beliveau's number four was the third sweater number that
he wore. He was one of the first 'stars' who as a forward wore a low
sweater number.
There are many interesting sweater trivia questions. Talk to ya
later,