(12-02-2019, 03:08 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(12-02-2019, 03:00 PM)Rico Wrote: Been a Flyers fan since the true Broad Street Bully days.  Hard to follow them now unless I pay for some sort of hockey package...which I won't do.

The '76 Flyers were scary.

Made the Red Army refuse to even get back on the ice with them. 

"Skilled. But Soft."

Bernie Parent made that team.  He was just unconscious in goal.  I've never see anything like it.  They regularly played shorthanded because of their...um...aggressive play and he was under 2 in goals against the two years they won the cup.  He was the reason they went downhill the third year.  After he took a stick in the eye he was never the same, even though his vision was supposedly OK.  They've been searching for a goalie ever since.  Maybe Hextall was close....maybe.

Schultz, Saleski, Kelly were thugs.  Schultz beat the snot out of Ed Rolfe in a cup semi-final one year.  It actually made me cringe.  Youtube that.  Don't know if I'd appreciate that type of hockey anymore.  Although, it wouldn't be allowed anyway.  It was a shame they were known for that because they had some offensive studs on that team in Clarke, Barber, MacLeish, and Leach.  As great as Clarke was, he was a cheap shot.  You never saw what he did, but you know he was doing something behind the play with the way the opposing players were acting. And they had great role players in Lonsberry, Dornhoefer, Kindrachuck, and Clement.  [BLEEP], that was over 40 years ago.

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