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OBrien_Panel_FNL Design & layout by Quench Design & Communications Inc. | Port Hope | www.quenchme.ca Dennis O'Brien National Hockey League A Tough and Feisty Rearguard! During the 1977-78 season O'Brien was on the move. Traded from the North Stars to the Colorado Rockies, then to the Cleveland Barons and finally to the Boston Bruins, he set an NHL record for the most teams played for in a single season. O'Brien's final two years in professional hockey were spent with the Bruins' franchise. Following his retirement during the 1979-80 season, like his fellow Port Hoper, Paul Terbenche, Dennis was employed at Cobourg's Brookside Youth Centre. He is now retired in his home town. O'Brien's nephew, Shane, has also travelled the NHL circuit, spending time with each of Anaheim, Tampa Bay, Vancouver, Nashville, Colorado, Calgary and Florida. Dennis Francis O'Brien, who was a native of Port Hope, got o� to a good start in his hockey career, playing with the league champion Cobourg Cougars in the 1967-68 season. The next season he was with the St. Catharines Black Hawks of the Ontario Hockey League (a team that included future NHL Hall-of-Famer Marcel Dionne). There he scored 20 points and accumulated 235 penalty minutes in 52 games as his team advanced to the OHA finals. They lost to a very strong Montreal Jr. Canadiens, considered by many to be the greatest Junior team of all-time. O'Brien was selected 14th overall by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1969 National Hockey League Amateur Draft and moved quickly though the Minnesota farm system. In 1971 he joined the big team full-time and for the next 6 years was a steady regular. He played in 70 or more games in 5 of those 6 seasons, scoring 24 goals, 95 points and 775 penalty minutes during that span. He was noted for his ability to "clear the front of the net" and to be an intimidating presence when his team played tough outfits like the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins. Shane O'Brien with the Vancouver Canucks