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Orr brought more offense to defense

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, August 30, 2000

"Every kid in the sixties and the early seventies grew up in Canada saying I want to be like Bobby Orr," says Wayne Gretzky on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. ---> Orr radically altered the style of hockey by introducing defensemen to the offensive side of the game. A defenseman who scored goals, rushed the puck up ice, set up teammates with pinpoint passes. It was a revolutionary concept. "He changed the sport by redefining the parameters of his position," wrote Sports Illustrated's E. ...

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