Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

For the season the Bruins gave Orr a solid gold puck one of four they gave out to Bruins players – to each of the four Bruins who scored over 100 points that season – Esposito Orr Johnny Bucyk and Ken Hodge. In other games Orr was outstanding scoring his first career NHL hat trick on December 14 against Chicago adding two assists for a five-point night. Louis Blues in overtime to clinch the 1970 Stanley Cup the Bruins commemorated the event with a bronze statue of Orr outside the TD Garden the Bruins' home rink.

Orr started in organized hockey at age five. Orr was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979 at age 31 the youngest to be inducted into the Hall at that time. A defenceman Orr used his ice skating speed and scoring and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position.