Bobby Orr is another Ice Hockey great whom, many consider, as the greatest ever player in the history of Ice Hockey. The Canadian defenseman could have earned many more achievements if recurring knee injury did not bring his glorious career to a premature end.During his 12-season NHL career, he achieved a lot while playing for Boston Bruins where he spent 10 seasons. He played for Chicago Black Hawks for the last two years of his career. At the time of his retirement, Bobby Orr had 657 appearances in NHL regular season with 270 goals, 645 assists and 915 points.

Despite his career being shortened by injury, Bobby Orr was able to make a number of records to his name. Scoring 139 points in 1970-71, he made the record of highest points in a season by a defenseman in NHL. He also holds the record of most assists in a season in NHL by a defenseman with 102 assists in the same season. He even also held the record for most goals in one NHL season by a defenseman from 1971 to 1986, but his 46-goal record was later broken by Paul Coffey with 48 goals. While retiring, he held the record for most goals, assists and points by a defenseman in the history of NHL. Only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Mike Bossy have more points per game than Bobby Orr in the history of NHL.

Bobby Orr was well-known for his two-way game which saw defenseman scoring goals like an attacking player which was very unique during his time. In fact, he was the first defenseman who broke that tradition. His all-round performance on the rink was something new for a defenseman in his era. With his great skating speed, he could go up the while attacking and quickly come down while the opposition team was on attack. In 1979, Bobby Orr was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.