Bobby Orr Robert Gordon Orr ( b . March 28th 1948 in Parry Sound , Ontario , Canada ) is a retired professional defenceman who played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Black Hawks . He is widely considered as one of the best hockey players ever . Orr displayed very high skills at a very young age . He was signed by the Boston Bruins as a twelve years old ; he reached the Ontario Hockey Association two years later , playing against players who were 18 , 19 and 20 and did just as fine as them . He led the Oshawa Generals to the OHA championship ; the following year , his final as a junior ( NHL rules stated that players had to be 18 to join the league ) , Orr averaged an incredible 2 points - per - game , which is especially special since he was a defenceman . Orr won the Calder Memorial Trophy in his first season in the league , 1966 - 67 . He would go on the following season to win the first of eight straight Norris Trophies , despite only playing 46 games due to a knee injury , the same kind of injury that would haunt him for the remainder of his career . In 1969 - 70 , he doubled his point production from previous season and finished atop the league ' s scorers ; he became the first , and so far only , defenceman to be awarded the Art Ross Trophy given to the league ' s top scorer . That season , besides that trophy and the Norris , he also clinched his first of three straight Hart Memorial Trophy as the league ' s MVP , and the Conn Smythe Trophy at the end of the playoffs to mark his outstanding play - he is the only player to have won four major trophies in one season in the NHL . In 1970 - 71 , he finished second in league ' s scoring , while playing for the stars - loaded Bruins , he established still unbroken records for points in a season by a defenceman and for the best plus / minus ratio for any position ( + 124 ) . The next season , he would win a second Stanley Cup , as well as another Conn Smythe . The Bruins offered Orr at the end of 1976 one of the most lucrative contracts ever , a deal that included 18 % ownership of the Bruins . However , his agent , Alan Eagleson , falsely told him that the Chicago Black Hawks had made him an even better offer ; he also voluntarily omited to mention Orr about the ownership parts the Bruins offered . Thinking he was choosing the better side , Orr signed with Chicago . The lie was made public years later ; it has been showed that Eagleson , who was also executive director of the NHLPA , frequently colluded with owners he favoured , in an effort to keep player salaries down . In this case , Eagleson had good relations with the Black Hawks owner , Bill Wirtz , and cheated in his advantage . It didn ' t pay off however for Wirtz and the Black Hawks as Orr , terribly diminished by the serious knee injuries he had to live with , only played 26 games as a Black Hawk over the course of three seasons , following which he retired in 1979 . After his retirement , the NHL waived the three - years mandatory waiting period for him and he was immediately inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame . He later helped exposing the crimes of Eagleson , for which the later was sentenced to 18 months in jail ( but only served 6 ) .