The state of the flyers is just depressing these days.

I grew up in Philly watching the broadstreet bullies play. They were the toughest team around but what gets lost is that they were very good and very skilled aside from being tough. Bernie Parent was an incredible goalie it is a shame that his career got cut short by an eye injury. He was only 33 at the time so he lost several good years. Because of cost and the fact tickets were not easy to get I only ever got to go see the Flyers play in person one time. It just so happened to be the game where they retired Bernie Parent Jersey after they announced he was being forced to retire due to his injury. He walked out onto the ice and everyone there stood up and started cheering BERNIE BERNIE in unison. If i live to be a hundred I will never forget that scene. I was 13 at the time. I looked over at my father standing next time me and I say a tear roll done his cheek. My father was a tough philadelphia street guy, I only saw him cry 3x in my life, and that was one of them. Thats how much that team and Bernie meant to the city.

Revolutionized the game. First expansion team to win. One of the all time highest winning percentages again as a non original 6 team. #31 is unofficially retired for Lindbergh.

The Broad Street Bullies brought hockey to the spotlight in the Lehigh Valley in the mid 70's. We all went out and got street hockey stuff including Bobby Clarke sticks.

Honestly surprised Lindbergh’s jersey hasn’t been retired

The Flyers died with Snyder. Comcast’s philosophy is the same in hockey ownership as it is in telecommunications: fuck the long term, go entirely for the short term (which ends up being a terrible decision anyway).

The Flyers were the team that got me into hockey. It was a pleasure to watch Clarkie hustle, and Macleish skate. In the creation event expansion draft, the Flyers selected Doug Favell and Bernie Parent, and later opted to keep Favell and send Parent away. Later, they would trade Favell to get Parent back. Favell was good, but we all know how that trade worked out. We should also mention the great Freddie Shero, who coached the Flyers to their cup wins, is the all-time winningest Flyers' boss, and was regarded as a coaching innovator and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame as such.

The Flyers of old were a force to be reckoned with -- The Broad Street Bullies. Dave Schultz, the "Hammer," changed the definition of an NHL enforcer. Their arena, The Spectrum, imposing and to a Flyers fan, just as historic as the Forum in Montreal.

Biggest moment in Flyers history was beating the Soviets. Not just beating the Soviets, but beating the Soviets.

Speaking as probably one of the senior Flyers fans here(57 years old, been a die hard Flyers fan since the early 70s) I can tell you that there's been a significant amount of bad luck with this franchise. Tim Kerr's injuries, Pelle Lindberg's death, Bernie damn near losing his eye, the blown offside non call in game 6 of the '80 finals. In fact, Pelle's death has resulted in a goalie curse of sorts and they've yet to find someone that is even remotely as good. Even Hextall only really had 1 good season. I do believe they're the only team to have 2 Conn Smythe winners even though they lost. For me the biggest disappointment in the playoffs was in 2000. They had a 3-1 lead on the Devils and choked it away because if they go to the finals no way Dallas beats them. 2010 was heartbreaking but they shouldn't have been there in the first place having qualified on the last day of the season and it took a shootout at that. I liken that team to the 1993 Phillies who caught lightning in a bottle. '87 was heartbreaking also because they were so close having fallen behind 3-1 then winning games 5 and 6(one of the most exciting games I've ever seen). As for Schultz, he was the team enforcer. If someone took a run at Clarke he took a run at them or their star but he wasn't just a goon as he did score on occasion including the series winning goal in game 4 of the '74 quarter finals. Now, in recent years it's been piss poor management. Ed Snyder with all his faults at least tried to build a winner. Now the team is owned by Comcast and I'm convinced they're not interested in winning.

@The Hockey Guy Thanks For Doing This Video of My Favorite NHL Team Since 1995!

Back around 2000 I was very fortunate to have eaten many family style dinners with MacLeish. He was good buddies with my friend's father and when his mom mom would cook, MacLeish was always there. The man ate spaghetti like he played. It was a flurry of what seemed to be uncontrolled stabs and twirls. The mashing of meatballs ended up looking like a murder scene but there was a method to his madness and by the end of dinner he had the cleanest plate. Amongst the chaos there was always a precise plan.

With Torts there, we should improve, but we won't be anything special!! Loved watching those 80's teams with Tim Kerr, Propp, Tocchet, Howe and Craven!! Fun team to watch once upon a time! Next to Bernie Parent, Pete Peters was my favorite goalie!

Proud Flyers fan since the Legion of Doom days!

Still can’t see anything about The Flyers without thinking about Pelle Lindbergh. As a 14 year old hockey playing swede at the time, I was really sad when he died.

If i remembered correctly no one has had Pelle Lindbergh's number since the car accident.

The record by Schultz with 472 PIM is actually the NHL-wide record.

Ive been a Flyers fan since '73-'74, when i first was big enough to start skating.

Looking forward to the VERY long look at Seattle's history

I’m surprised the picture of Gritty breaking glass isn’t the thumbnail.

Oh, let's not forget that they were the one and only true World Champions of hockey when they brutalized the vaunted Soviet Red Army team in 1976 when none of the other teams they played could beat them(Montreal managed a tie). And as draft picks go, I often wonder if the Lindros trade even happens if they took Jagr instead of Mike Ricci in 1990.

Well done history lesson once again 🏆. Thx Teacher 📕

I watched Pete Peeters all thru junior ... Shannon how about a career video on him

Chuck Fletcher is hellbent on destroying the Flyers with his legendary incompetence

As a Flyers fan, this team makes me sad 😔 no attempt to adapt to the modern game whatsoever

fun fact, the flyers longest drought without a conference finals appearance WAS 7 years (first 7 of their existence) and their longest cup finals drought used to be 11 seasons. Flyers got both beat from 2010-11 to now. It’s a good thing I started watching hockey in 2012! kinda unfair at how many hours I’ve wasted watching this team just for them to do nothing. those watching during the early/mid 80s, mid 70s, mid/late 90s, and early/late 00s had it best lol

Just wondering about the Pelle Lindberg stats?

I shared the link to this podcast with Bernie Parent on Twitter. Maybe he will watch it. 😀

Can be summed up in 3 words: “pain and misery”

A history lesson where I don't fall asleep in class!

Surprised you didn't mention Reggie Leach being the only non-goaltender to win the Con Smythe for a losing team. In the 1976 payoffs he had 19 goals in 16 games.

love that hat where did you get it?

I watched them win their 2 Stanley Cups. Bernie Parent is my favorite all time Flyer. And after this past 2 years, we're not gonna see another cup until 2032. I hope I'm still alive by then.

The white (,red and black) jersey they wore in the 80s and 90s is the best looking jersey ever!

would love for you to do a career video on Bobby Clarke or Bernie Parent

At least Gritty is dope... 🤷‍♂

Brutal drafting and the inability to leverage financial advantage anymore will relegate the flyers to 100 years without a cup

Pelle Lindbergh😢

The flyers should have tried to get Gordie Howe in the 67 expansion draft that would have warp speeded their "Broad street bullies persona.

Awards History: Art Ross: None Bill Masterton: Bobby Clarke (1972) + Tim Kerr (1989) + Oskar Lindblom (2021) Calder: None Conn Smythe: Bernie Parent (1974/1975) + Reggie Leach (1976) + Ron Hextall (1987) Frank J. Selke: Bobby Clarke (1983) + Dave Poulin (1987) + Sean Couturier (2020) Hart Memorial: Bobby Clarke (1973/1975/1976) + Eric Lindros (1995) Jack Adams: Fred Shero (1974) + Pat Quinn (1980) + Mike Keenan (1985) + Bill Barber (2001) James Norris: None King Clancy Memorial: None Lady Bing: None Lester B. Pearson/Ted Lindsay: Bobby Clarke (1973) + Eric Lindros (1995) Maurice "Rocket" Richard: None Vezina: Bernie Parent (1974/1975) + Pelle Lindbergh (1984) + Ron Hextall (1987) William M. Jennings: Darren Jensen and Bob Froese (1986) + Robert Esche and Roman Cechmanek (2003)

I'm surprised at the number of whiffs particularly at the top of the draft. While I'm not a Flyers fan they seemed to be better in the middle and the bottom of the draft than in the first or second round. I'm also surprised at the number and quality of goalies they picked but they never seemed to develop. A lot of the Flyer problems (albeit not all) came when Clarke was GM. That was why I was surprised he dumped on GM Hextall. He (Clarke) could have done a much better job himself especially with the scouting/development. You'd like to think a good GM should have a draft class every year with at least 500 games all together (even if they were not with his team). Clarke had a couple where the entire draft class didn't play 30 games at the NHL level anywhere.

Do a history on the Islanders please...

Hextall was a good goalie.. but sadly should never have gotten the chance to show it with Philly.. The Great Pelle Lindbergh had just become what looked like he would man the pipes for the next decade when he was killed in a car accident in 85... I disliked Philly... but even I mourned his death. The 70's team had some really good players.. but even their stars (Clarke, Leach, MacLeish..etc) had no problem mixing it up... the only one I didn't see beat the snot out of someone what Parent..

Solid contender for tankapoolaza. NHL could do worse than have Bedard end up in Philly or Chicago

Bobby Clarke had 1210 NHL Points w. Philadelphia Flyers; not 1218!

Should mention that they were part of the greatest trade in NHL history... Of course, they were on the wrong side of it, but hey, they were still making history. :D

Well that was depressing. Thank you for compiling it though. Hard to look at their draft "success" and see how they won so many games as an expansion team. And this could be the worst team ever this year.

The Broad Street Bullies were directly responsible for the implementation of the instigator rule.

When do they bring back those long pants? As if they can't become more of a joke.

They just stomped the bruins

Can we just skip this one? 😢

Shame that Giroux left. Wish he retired a Flyer. :( This team has been terribly managed since trading away Richards & Carter. Should of just kept them & give Bob a few more years to develop.

If your under 50, the history is pretty bleak. Worst franchise in the league right now.

Pete Peters gets lost in the sauce not that he was all that anyway just saying.

this organization sucks now

Not an original 6. Only Philly fans care.

History of failure

Point of order, this franchise is dead. Arbour/Bowman/Blake could not rescue it. Incompetence reeks at every single level of the franchise, especially their GM. Fletch has completed the job which Homer and Hexy started. And Hexy was ABYSMAL. Torts will be beyond frustrated by Xmas and likely resign well before the end of his contract. Leadership cannot draft, develop, sign or keep healthy their players. The worst part about the past ten years of failure and the dumpster fire of the past two season is the LV is horrendous, they have very little bright spots and their future is extremely bleak. Other than the product, or lack their of, on the ice, their relationship with the city has utterly been destroyed and they will likely play at 50% capacity this season. With their bleak future and inability to fix this mess, attendance will likely continue to dwindle and who knows where this franchise will go, but Houston or QC are more likely. And this is a diehard fan since 83.

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