I WAS 15 YEARS OLD FIRST TIME I SAW MY FATHER CRY (HAPPY TEARS) HE CRACKED A BEER AND WE SHARED IT. STILL THE BEST TASTING BEER I EVER DRANK. RIP DAD I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT GREAT DAY......

This is when I was big time into hockey. The only thing that seemed important in life was hockey. On the NW side of Chicago. The best memories I have were playing goal on the ice. Street Hockey too.

I remember watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC as a toddler with my dad when it was on black and white television. With knobs. It was my job during intermissions to get up and change the channel and get him a beer from the fridge. Saturday night hockey was our thing. We were a team. I remember Jacques Plant introducing the first goalie mask. Players played without helmets and smoked cigarettes on the bench back then. I love hockey. Thanks dad.

For some reason this footage really captures the hustle and fast action of the era unlike most old footages that seem to show 1970s hockey as slow.

This is fantastic. Never saw this before. My dad had Flyers season tickets and was there the day they won the Cup. It was a Sunday afternoon i believe on NBC Sports. For everyone in Philadelphia and the surrounding area I will tell you that winning this cup was an unbelievable moment. It was really a special moment. What a time, such precious memories.

cant believe they took Kates statue down

Goaltending was sooooo much more entertaining in the 70's.

Fred Shero's game plan was to have Orr handle the puck as much as possible and maul him to no end. It worked to perfection as Orr had nothing left in the tank, as great as he was. I attended the first two games at the Spectrum in the finals. The Bruins weren't even competitive. The Flyers won those games with relative ease, other than game six. Flyers relied on positioning and great goaltending...

Remember the Atlanta Flames? Tom Lysiak? What a dynasty the Bruins almost were. Stanley Cup Champions in 1970, 1972. But those failures in '71 and '74 with all that talent are a painful reminder in New England of what could have been in the early 1970s.

I’ll never forget that day when the Flyers won the Stanley Cup, I was 10 years old, in NE Philly, everyone was crazy happy on Frankford ave and Cottman, cars driving by, slapping my hand , then the horse Cops came , rushing the fans that were out of control, climbing poles, ETC, what a great day, streakers also haha

Still get goosebumps watching it! Thanks, I needed that.

I had Boston Greg Shepherd as a Coach in Canada. He was great.

"the orange jerseyed Philadelphia Flyers -- a well disciplined team ..." 😂😂😂😂😂 No one, absolutely no one would ever refer to the original Broad Street Bullies as "disciplined"!!! One of the most penalized teams in the history of the NHL.

ive said it before, ill say it again. when hockey was hockey

Stanley Cup final for the ages

Boy what memories. My 9 year old self flipped out when we won the Cup. Parent was so unstoppable in game 6 that Phil Esposito said they could have played until the 4th of July and still not scored on Bernie. And great to hear the late, great Gene Hart's memorable call then hearing Lou Nolan, who is still the Flyers PA announcer, announcing Bernie's Conn Smythe. Flyers would repeat the following year and sadly that's been it.

I was 11 years old my first parade of many more to come broad street was fn great thanks to my grand mother who took me and my brother to the parade may she rest in peace forever Joey South Philly 4 life

Thus began the legend of the Philadelphia Flyers, recognized by the NHL as an "Original Seven" franchise that has had more history (good and bad) than all the other '67 expansion teams and the Toronto Laughs combined!

My favourite all time goalie, Doug Favell, gave the Maple Leafs EVERY chance in the world to beat Boston in the opening round, standing on his head but the Leafs couldn't score enough to take advantage of it...win OR lose, he was worth the price of admission with his ultra competiveness AND cool style, he could drop to his knees to stop a simple dump in and make it look exciting, no intimidation or fear at all!!!!!!!

I was just born when the FLYERS did it. I was born on May 8th, and eleven days later the FLYERS would do it!

No ads on the boards or ice. Weird. Hockey was really white in those days.

That look Cashman gave Dave Shultz there at 21:03 is priceless.

Flyers, well disciplined?.

Heartstopping narration. Peter Puck would be better.

Thank you BERNIE! Yes, I was at the parade. Along with A LOT of almost everyone in the tristate area.

Oh yeah, the old Spectrum, many memories in there, demolished in?? I have never stepped foot in the FU Center, and prolly never will, just like the old JFK center, long gone..

1st Miracle on ice.

Both the Bruins and Flyers were two equally matched teams in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Bruins lost the Finals in Game 2 of the Finals when Bobby Clarke scored that Overtime Goal at Boston Garden for the Flyers, coupled with the Bruins unable to win one game in Philadelphia, sealed their fate in this Finals.

The thing is game 2 Flyers dump the puck in, for some reason Orr froze, he could of slapped it out but he back handed the puck to his left and Bruins lost control

The one thing that confuses me about how the 1974 Stanley cup playoff was: Since Philadelphia finshed first in the West, New York, Montreal, and Atlanta were in the same bracket with the Flyers. Although New York, Montreal, and Atlanta are the teams from the Eastern United States. Meanwhile, Boston of course is first place in the East and Toronto is correctly put in this bracket since they're obviously in Eastern Canada. But what's Chicago and Los Angeles, although being in the Western United States, doing in this bracket with Boston and Toronto?

RIP GENE HART!!

1974: the last chance for the Orr - Esposito era.. to demonstrate that they were good. Where was that alleged greatness in 1974? Where was it in 1971, 1969, or 1968? Yes, they did win two Cups, '70 & '72. The Orr - Esposito era lasted ten years: hardly a dynasty, really.

When Kate Smith's name was not offensive.

Kate Smith won game 6

Cheever’s makes this a dead heat

PHIL-TALK TO ME

goaltending sure has come along way since the 1970s

And then six years later, the same way they won this Stanley Cup, the Flyers would fall short to The New York Islanders. After losing Game 1 in overtime at Philadelphia, it was their inability to win at Long Island that cost them as they lost the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals to the Islanders in Game 6 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The year of the Flyers

Game two was the difference we were up 2 0 and blew it..

That’s my grand father doing that camrea

Better with the sound off.

This series was a bag job and Esposito was in on it and so was the referee

ooooohhhhhhhyes

Game two overtime lose killed Boston's chances to win the cup. I think if they would have gone up two games to none it might have been a different outcome. Game six was played on a Sunday afternoon televised by CBC, Radio Canada and NBC that's why the Bruins had their names on their jersey's.

Last time the Bruins seen wearing their by far best, iconic jerseys. The other five Original Six get it; Boston doesn't. (Neither do Patriots - last seen 1983.)

believe it or not. parent missed the orr shot with a few seconds left. he was watching the clock.orr made a great try out of nothing.the announcer errored and said it was a save by parent

That damn Kate Smith, how was Boston to beat that???

FLYERS RULE

the flyers

SHOW ME WHERE -PHIL PLAYED -HOCKEY WHEN HE WAS 8 YEARS OLD

cheese steak 4 everyone...on me!

Remember this very well was a Bruin fan hated the singing

Tastykakes tasted better back then.

Never understood the last seconds of the game. Orr shoots it down the ice and it should have been icing at :04. Even the clock stopped momentarily and then started up again.

GOD OLD DAYS

Put the best player ever in the box with two minutes left in the game..hmmmm

ace

The Bruins were out coached and out played during most of this series.Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito didn’t have a great series and they admitted this.In goal,Gilles Gilbert was fantastic in the semi finals against Chicago,but played poorly in three of the six games vs the Flyers.

Bruins should have won 5 Stanley Cups in a row

Sounds like Ryan O'Neal....

and great job bye the refs

Will be winning other Cups very soon as Shittsburgh prepares to go BANKRUPT for a RECORD THIRD TIME..

I watched it when it was played. Imo, if Orr wasn't penalized at the end it would of had a different result. Flyers were a good club with the best goaltending...many ex bruins

Commentator blows

Glenn parent: hahahahaha. Philadelphia still has been waiting since 1975 to win their next NHL Title you hack. i call that an overrated NHL Team of the 21st century. How long has Boston waited? Since 2011?

I still don t k ow how this team didn't win the cup from 69 to 75 .I. retrospect things I know now that I didn't know then I think the mob was into that team fixing games .that Philly series was a joke .Boston was so much better and it showed in the 1st 2 games.i remember a series against Montreal one game Boston went up 5 to 0 in the 1st it was like they were playing children and old men .then th 2nd period started Montreal toed the game in 10 minutes and went on to win .the goals were r ediculous giveaways after giveaway breakaway after breakaway for Christ sake the Bruins did everything but put the puck in the net for them.people do t understand in those days hockey players were paid like can drivers.

Democrat Flyers threw Kate Smith under bus, because they HATE the song. No bless. No God. No Cup.

OK boys, bottom line time; Boston lost Philly won...and Parent laughed at you for 60 minutes. Grow up; it was 50 years ago...and 50 years ago, you lost.