Bobby Orr: The Goal.
Bobby Orr: The Goal.
That would be my number 2. An incredible hockey player.
That game-winning goal came in sudden-death overtime, but it was Game 4 of a four-game sweep over the St. Louis Blues in a Stanley Cup final whose outcome was pretty much inevitable. In fact, it was the third straight year the Blues were swept in the finals, which was the natural consequence of the NHL's 1967 expansion when the "Original Six" teams were put together in the East Division and the six new expansion teams -- with their aging veterans and other second-rate players who were castoffs from the Original Six teams during the expansion draft -- were put in the West Division.
It wasn't until the 1970-71 expansion -- when Buffalo and Vancouver joined the NHL and the teams were re-shuffled with a mix of Original Six and "new" teams in both divisions -- that the West division was even competitive in the Stanley Cup finals. Even then, the West division teams that made it to the finals were Original Six teams. The 1973-74 Philadelphia Flyers were the first post-1967 expansion team to even make it to the Stanley Cup finals.