Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar is playing at a level that no modern defenseman can compete with. The 26-year-old blue liner is simply in a class of his own. To find an accurate comparison, ...

Columnist Jim Shaw marks legendary hockey player Bobby Orr's birthday by recalling the time he interviewed the star defenseman. As a 22-year-old broadcast journalism student, columnist Jim Shaw had ...

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact people weren’t fawning all over him and telling him how special he was from the time he was four. Then there was the time when he was 13, and he not only ...

Welcome to NHL99, The Athletic’s countdown of the best 100 players in modern NHL history. We’re ranking 100 players but calling it 99 because we all know who’s No. 1 — it’s the 99 spots behind No. 99 ...

Bobby Orr wore these skates during his brief stint with the Chicago Blackhawks from 1976 to 1979 when he retired due to an on-going knee injury. Signed at age 14, Orr played in the metro Junior A ...

BOSTON — Nice try by the hockey people in assigning Suite L-8 to Bobby Orr during Monday’s Winter Classic at Fenway Park. Yes, No. 4 retreated to No. 8 after participating in a pregame “first puck” ...