[News] Bobby Orr shares his story on The National

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Bobby Orr talks about the way the game should be played, Eagleson and his new book "Orr: My Story" to be released on Tuesday.



Let the kids have fun

Among the topics discussed with Mansbridge was minor hockey and the way young players are being coached now. According to Orr, it shouldn't be about methodology, but fun and entertainment.

"You hear pewee coaches teaching the 'trap'," he said. "What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve."

Removing the centre ice line was a mistake

The constant changes happening to the game of hockey in recent years are a major concern for Orr, who believes these modifications "have made the game unsafe for players."

"Players are so big, so fast, so strong," he said. "Opening the game up the way we have... it is more dangerous today than it's ever been."

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/...onal-1.2053842

You can watch the video here...

http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/hoc...#id=2411981962

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Orr devotes a chapter to his relationship with Alan Eagleson, whom he trusted as a friend, mentor, and agent. Such trust, Orr writes, “is a rare and precious thing . . . [and] Alan Eagleson turned even trust as great and rare as that into something foul and regrettable.”

Eagleson betrayed and cheated a lot of people, and eventually went to prison for it, but his victimization of Orr was especially heinous. The ever-faithful Orr defended Eagleson even after many NHL players had recognized him as a fraud, and extricating himself from Eagleson and the mess he’d made of Orr’s finances (“[H]e had left me practically broke”) proved difficult and ruinously expensive.

Orr does include one story about “an encounter I have never disclosed.” A day after he’d been blindsided and knocked unconscious by Pat Quinn of the Toronto Maple Leafs during the playoffs in 1969, Orr was approached in the lobby of the team’s hotel by “a rather tough looking ‘gentleman’ ” who asked, “Do you want me to take care of Pat Quinn?”

Orr passed on the offer and never saw the “tough looking gentleman” again.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/book...7RK/story.html

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I enjoyed watching the interview last night, anything Bobby Orr news related is worth seeing.