Career Achievements
Despite playing only twelve seasons and 657 games (of which only his first nine seasons, totaling 621 games, were full seasons), and only playing 47 NHL games after his 27th birthday, Orr accomplished many records and achievements, a number of which still stand today, and are listed below.
As of the end of the 2010–11 season:
- First and only defenceman to score nine hat tricks
- First defenceman to score 30 goals (1969–70) and 40 goals in a season (1974–75) in a season.
- First player to record 100 assists in a season (1970–71)
- Only defenceman to lead the league in scoring (1969–70, 1974–75)
- Only player ever to win the Norris Trophy, Art Ross Trophy, Hart Trophy, and Conn Smythe Trophy in one season (1969–70)
- Second all-time in career plus-minus rating (+597) (retired as the overall leader; never finished a full season less than +30 since +/- became a statistic beginning with the 1968–69 season)
- Fifth in league history in career point-per-game average, all-time, (1.393) (highest among defencemen)
- Fifty-ninth overall in league history in career assists and 90th in career points
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