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Careers of Orr and Shore draw parallels

The hockey card on the auction block described the pictured player this way: “...Great ability for fast breaking, checking and rushing earned him chances to travel with bigger teams until he landed with the Boston Bruins...He has been the game’s greatest defensive star on all-hockey teams many tines...Is one of the highest scoring defense players in the game and always gives a thrill when he starts one of his famous ‘rushes’ down the ice. Is one of the highest paid stars in hockey but

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