Bobby Orr
January 2, 2010
Do you expect an end to his effect on hockey and, in picky, the Boston Bruins.
Only when it appeared that nothing would change the 2010 Winter Classic Friday at Fenway Park any further distinguished and historic, the supreme defenseman who ever lived came out of the Bruins dressing room and then the Red Sox dugout and made his way to center ice to shake hands with former Philadelphia Flyers great Bobby Clarke.
And when the current Bruins came out of the pyrotechnics lining their path to the rink, there was the player. People by large though that the supreme to play the game was to pat them on the back and send them into battle.
“For him to lead us out there & when he was (announced), there was a big standing ‘O’ for a bit and it was pretty special for him to lead us out there,” said Bruins center Marc Savard, who regardless of playing for the same Oshawa Generals junior team as Orr (some 30 years later) had never met the legend.
“I got to stand beside him. I think he thought he was supposed to go off after the national anthem. I told him just to stay. It was unbelievable to be on the ice with him. That was pretty special,” said Wideman.
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