Bobby Orr wore these skates during his brief stint with the Chicago Blackhawks from 1976 to 1979 when he retired due to an on-going knee injury. Signed at age 14, Orr played in the metro Junior A ...

Welcome to NHL99, The Athletic’s countdown of the best 100 players in modern NHL history. We’re ranking 100 players but calling it 99 because we all know who’s No. 1 — it’s the 99 spots behind No. 99 ...

Columnist Jim Shaw marks legendary hockey player Bobby Orr's birthday by recalling the time he interviewed the star defenseman. As a 22-year-old broadcast journalism student, columnist Jim Shaw had ...

On this date, June 8, 1976, the Blackhawks made headlines, in English and French, throughout the United States, Canada and beyond, with a momentous free agent signing. Bobby Orr, the incomparable ...

Bobby Orr was the first superstar I remember. Not only was he a two-time Stanley Cup winner, but he was also THE superstar of the NHL in the late 1960s and throughout the 70s. Everyone wanted to wear ...

It is a sorry fact of life for an elite goaltender that his most famous image almost surely will be not of him making a brilliant save, but of him having just given up a late-game or overtime goal of ...