To grade and motivate himself over the long NHL season, Orr broke it into 10-game segments. He figured a true professional ought to be able to play at his highest level for eight of those games, but needed to be cut some slack the remaining two games, owing to not being 100 percent physically fit all the time. Still, this was a high standard and Orr was disappointed when either he or a teammate didn鈥檛 maintain it. And while Orr was not verbally confrontational, teammate Derek Sanderson remembers that he would stare daggers at any player in the locker room who he felt was mailing it in.
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