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“Great moments are born from great opportunities.” Bobby Orr gave himself opportunities, and from that he created great moments. He is a former hockey player who played for the Boston Bruins. He wore the number four and represented Boston as one of their great players in the team's history. Robert Gordon Orr was born on March 20, 1948, in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. He had two sisters and two brothers. Bobby Orr started playing hockey when he was five years old, as a forward. He started playing in the minor squirt division a year after getting his first pair of skates and playing pond hockey. The level that he started playing in is very tough for kids his age because usually those aged kids only play for practice. As he started playing hockey and started off playing as a forward, when he was ten he was switched. His coach former NHL (National Hockey League) player, Bucko Mcdonald moved bobby to defense. Bucko told the other coach that this was his natural position. Bobby Orr was later being watched by teams because of his magnificent play. The Boston Bruins were the first team to go look at him. One of the chairpeople in the Bruins organization went for regular visits to Orrs home. In 1961 the bruins invested $1,000 in his minor hockey team.($8,076 now in 2017) A year later he ended up signing with the Bruins as three other teams were interested in him as well. When he was fourteen, Blair convinced the Orr family to allow Bobby to attend the Flyers' tryout camp. When…

Before the NHL: Bobby Orr was born in Parry Sound in 1948. He was one of five children born from Doug and Arva Orr. Bobby started playing hockey at a very young age. He had great skating ability which impressed many of his coaches. Bucko McDonald, one of Orr’s first coaches, made him defense. At age 14 Bobby was getting scouted by many NHL scouts. One of these scouts was Wren Blair of the Boston Bruins. Blairagressevialy tried to get Bobby to sign a contract. Bobby eventually did in 8th grade.…

According to press releases from both teams, the Nashville Predators and Colorado Avalanche have swung a trade, with the Predators acquiring winger Cody McLeod in exchange for centre prospect Felix Girard. The Avalanche are also retaining $533,000 of McLeod's contract according to reports. McLeod, 32, has spent his entire career with the Colorado Avalanche since he broke into the league during the 2007-2008 season. McLeod was undrafted and earned an entry-level contract after one year in the…

Here’s the sort of thing that you might expect to see on the reboot of “The X-Files.” Thousands of snowballs spontaneously form, without any human hands to help, and then roll together like a ghostly invasion force through a field in Idaho. But as agent Mulder probably would explain to us, all those snowballs actually are a natural, albeit extremely rare, phenomenon known as snow rollers.As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s website explains, snow rollers form when an unusual…

A letter written from a man named Oscar Wilde in the West states, “My dear Miss Nellie, Since I wrote to you I have been to wonderful places, to Colorado which is like the Tyrol a little, and has great canons of red sandstone, and pine trees, and the tops of the mountains all snow-covered, and up a narrow-gauge railway did I rush to the top of a mountain 15,000 feet high, to the great mining city of the west called Leadville, and lectured the miners on the old workers in metal—Cellini and…

Amendment 106 Right to Die, passed in the state of Colorado in November 2016, and will go into effect early in 2017. This amendment was passed that allow patients that have a terminal disease, with less than six months to live, and still mentally competent to make medical decisions, to end their lives. The patients would be prescribed a large amount of a sleeping pill, that would allow for the patient to choose when they would like to die Ballot Pedia (2016). This amendment was originally…

presented too late. This court ruling is almost 80 years old and it was about time to make changes to an uneducated ruling. Legalizing marijuana has created a sense of hope for raising revenue in certain states. Colorado and Washington were the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. In 2012, Colorado passed Amendment 64 which, “instructed the state legislature to impose an excise tax of up to 15 percent on it, and earmarked the first $40 million in revenue from that tax for public…

Fast Food Nation Assignment # Level Page Question Answer 1 5 1-2 Analyze and judge the meaning of the Cheyenne Mountains? Schlosser describes the Cheyenne Mountains similar to a precious baby. The mountains have a beauty to them that can not be found otherwise. However, the vast mountains maybe beautiful, but inside includes a military base. This is comparable to a fast food chain. One obtains food. Although it seems that the person benefited from the calories, these calories include sugars…

anasazi may have depleted their resources and had to relocate, but their means of taking their territory might not have been very neighborly. According to Catherine Dold, the anasazi may have had a more powerful bite than bark. When resources ran out, it might have been necessary to take the resources of others. In ancient society, people may have been more cut-throat and feral. The anasaszi may have resorted to organized cannibalism to take resources from others, and protect themselves. They…

Title: The title The Devil’s Highway is both literal and metaphorical. Because the meaning of the title has both literal and metaphorical connotations, it easily captures the essence of the book. Literally, while these men travelled across the desert in order to reach the Mexican-US border, they traveled through the Devil’s Highway. Metaphorically, the title is a representation of how these men went through Hell on earth to get to where they needed to go. These men experienced dehydration,…