1970-71 O-Pee-Chee 213 Jim Roberts Hockey Card (Front)
1970-71 O-Pee-Chee 213 Jim Roberts Hockey Card (Back)
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Card Notes
In 1969-70 Jim played every position for the Blues except goal and has been one of the top penalty-killers in the NHL (a role he played for Montreal for three seasons), went to St. Louis in 1967 NHL expansion draft. Jim had the awesome job of shadowing Bobby Orr in the 1970 Stanley Cup Final series and did a creditable job.
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En 1969-70, Jim joua à toutes les positions pour les Blues sauf dans les filets. Il est l’un des meilleurs tueurs de punitions dans la LNH; il fit ce travail pour les Canadiens pendant trois saisons. Il passa à St-Louis en 1967 lor du repêchage de l’expansion. Jim avait la tâche extrêmement difficile de couvrir Bobby Orr durant les finales de la Coupe Stanley en 1970.
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Jim Roberts must have made a difference, covering Bobby Orr in the 1969-70 Stanley Cup final with Orr scoring just a single goal over the four games. Unfortunately, that one goal was scored 40 seconds into overtime in game four to give Boston the sweep in the series and the Stanley Cup championship.
In that game, Roberts assisted on a Larry Keenan goal just 19 seconds into the third period that gave St. Louis a 3-2 lead. Johnny Bucyk scored later in the frame for Boston to tie the game back up and force the overtime period.
A special teams expert, of his 126 regular season goals during his NHL career, Jim scored ten on the power play and 17 shorthanded. On February 6, 1972, Roberts scored the game winning goal for the Montreal Canadiens while shorthanded. In a game against the Vancouver Canucks at Pacific Coliseum, he put one past George Gardner with Guy Lapointe in the box to make the score 3-2 in a 4-2 Montreal win.
Later that year in a game against the New York Rangers, Jim had two shorthanded points on the same penalty kill. While Claude Larose was serving a minor for hooking, Roberts scored, assisted by Larry Pleau and Terry Harper. 37 seconds later, he assisted on a Pete Mahovlich shortie.
Between 1963-64 and 1977-78, Jim Roberts played 1,006 regular season and 153 playoff games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and St. Louis Blues. He was a five time Stanley Cup champion with the Habs and went to the final three times with the Blues.