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The Flyers were founded in 1967 and won consecutive Stanley Cup championships in 1974 and 1975, the first expansion team to do so. The team has since lost in six return trips to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1976, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1997 and 2010.
The Flyers won the Stanley Cup as league champions in back-to-back years during the mid-1970s. [3] They have not won the Cup since despite six return trips to the Stanley Cup Finals. They won the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl six times, twice as West Division champions and four times as Campbell Conference regular season champions. [4]
The Stanley Cup Finals in ice hockey ... Cougars became the last team outside the NHL to win the Stanley Cup. ... Wings (6 from 1956 to 1995), Philadelphia Flyers ...
The Flyers then defeated the defending Stanley Cup champion Canadiens in a fiery six-game series (notable for a famous bench-clearing brawl during the game six warmup) to win the Wales Conference and return to the Stanley Cup Final. As was the case two seasons prior, the Flyers became decimated by injuries, the most significant of which was ...
The 1970–71 season, because of fan demand, brought forth the first inter-conference playoff match up outside of the Stanley Cup Finals since the pre-war expansion, which had the winner of the second-place versus fourth-place match up in one division take on the winner of the first- versus third-place match up in the other division for a berth ...
The Montreal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup 24 times and made the Finals an additional 11 times. There were two years when the Stanley Cup was not awarded: 1919 , because of the Spanish flu pandemic , and 2005, because of the 2004–05 NHL lockout .
The Flyers went on to win their first of back-to-back Stanley Cups. [15] The day after the Flyers won the Cup, more than two million people—one of them, future Ranger goaltender Mike Richter [16] —lined Broad Street for a ticker-tape parade. [17] Richter grew up in Flourtown, Pa., near Philadelphia, idolizing Flyers goaltender Bernie Parent ...
The 2010 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2009–10 season, and the culmination of the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Western Conference champion Chicago Blackhawks and the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia Flyers .