Number 24

They are retiring Terry O' Reilly's number tonight at the Fleet Center. Playing hockey growing up 'Taz' was one of my favorite Bruins...he hustled..

Did you know...he hold's the club record for penalty minutes, but he also shares the record for most playoff overtime goals.

[I Are Baboon]

At first I thought this was going to be a Jeff Gordon thread. ::)

Terry O'Reilly.....old school hockey the way it's supposed to be played.

[gungywump]

A Bruin's Bruin if there ever was one!

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TERRY O'REILLY'S CAREER STATISTICS
Regular Season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A PTS PIM GP G A PTS PIM
1971-1972 Boston NHL 1 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
1972-1973 Boston NHL 72 5 22 27 109 5 0 0 0 0
1973-1974 Boston NHL 76 11 24 35 94 16 2 5 7 38
1974-1975 Boston NHL 68 15 20 35 146 3 0 0 0 17
1975-1976 Boston NHL 80 23 27 50 150 12 3 1 4 25
1976-1977 Boston NHL 79 14 41 55 147 14 5 6 11 28
1977-1978 Boston NHL 77 29 61 90 211 15 5 10 15 40
1978-1979 Boston NHL 80 26 51 77 205 11 0 6 6 25
1979-1980 Boston NHL 71 19 42 61 265 10 3 6 9 69
1980-1981 Boston NHL 77 8 35 43 223 3 1 2 3 12
1981-1982 Boston NHL 70 22 30 52 213 11 5 4 9 56
1982-1983 Boston NHL 19 6 14 20 40 - - - - -
1983-1984 Boston NHL 58 12 18 30 124 3 0 0 0 14
1984-1985 Boston NHL 63 13 17 30 168 5 1 2 3 9
NHL Totals 891 204 402 606 2095 108 25 42 67 335

Not in Stats...

The Dale Hunter fight against Quebec when Terry got suspended for hitting an official.

Climbing into the stands in New York and beating those obnoxious fans

Late in his career, in a game against the Canadiens, the play moved up ice out of the B's zone. One of the Canadien forwards was still in the B's zone harrassing Pete Peters, the goalie at the time. O'rielly noticed what was happening and raced back to Peters' aid. He lost the fight but to me that summed up his career in a nutshell. Never the best skater or scorer but he always had your back no matter what.

...many more but you get the picture...

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...he hold's the club record for penalty minutes

That is why when they took down the old garden, he requested the penlty box door, they gave him the entire penlty box , they said he spent so much time in there as a player, he already owned it by squatters rights.

[gungywump]

...he hold's the club record for penalty minutes

That is why when they took down the old garden, he requested the penlty box door, they gave him the entire penlty box , they said he spent so much time in there as a player, he already owned it by squatters rights.


He spent over 34 HOURS in the penalty box in his career. Figure on about 17 of those at home. He deserved the whole penalty box. He earned it!