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Old 10-31-2009, 10:37 AM   #22 (permalink)
zete
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Re: New Commercial featuring Spark, Volt, Cruze....and Bobby Orr!

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All hail the greatest Bruin ever!
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Forget Bruin. How about the greatest defenseman ever. Also the only person that would get votes over Wayne Gretzky as the greatest ever by many who watched him play.

Best hockey player ever. Better than Gretzky, better than Lemieux, better than Sawchuk, better than Howe, better than Richard. Orr was in a league of his own. Too bad all the knee-on-knee hits the less talented took on him cut his career short. Enjoy these highlights from his career.

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If I had to list the best players ever the top five would be:
  1. Bobby Orr
  2. Mario Lemieux
  3. Wayne Gretzky
  4. Maurice "Rocket" Richard
  5. Terry Sawchuk

What? No Howe in the top 5? Nope. Howe played a thousand years and wasn't that impressive on the ice. And Lemieux above Gretzky? Oh, yeah. Gretzky had a great team around him for most of his career, Lemieux didn't. And look what Lemieux did. And he was seriously ill half the time. Imagine if he was healthy and/or on a decent team. He'd have buried all the records.

I do think having a Bobby Orr variant of the Camaro would be cool. He's been associated with GM for years, at least since the 90s. It would be a fitting tribute. Maybe the soft top, what with him playing hockey before they tended to wear helmets :-). Maybe a Bobby Orr Z/28 convertible edition.

As I said, they've had Bobby Orr doing Chevrolet commercials for years up here. Many with a hockey theme. I've always found them well done and quite tasteful.

One question. Why "04 2010" as the license plate? Is that a sly hint that it's due out April 2010 and not "late 2010" as has been indicated for quite a while now? Seems odd to have "04 2010". And don't say it's for Bobby's number, because his number was 4 not 04.
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