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The Flyers also possess an all-time .575 points percentage, the third highest among NHL teams. [2] 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 Philadelphia Phantoms for 13 seasons (1996–97 to 2008–09) and the Hershey Bears for 12 seasons (1984–85 to 1995–96) are the only teams to serve as a Flyers affiliate for more than ten years. The Flyers are currently affiliated with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Reading Royals of the ECHL. [1] [2]
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Eastern Conference. [1] The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to 12 teams. [2]
The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to twelve teams. [ 2 ] Since the franchise was established, the team has had ten general managers , [ 3 ] including Keith Allen , who built the Flyers teams that won two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975, [ 4 ] and was inducted into the Hockey ...
The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to 12 teams. [ 2 ] Since the franchise was established, the team has had 20 captains , [ 3 ] including Bobby Clarke , who captained the Flyers to two Stanley Cups in 1973–74 and 1974–75, and is the only player to have scored over 1,000 ...
When the PHL dissolved in 1979, the Flyers returned to the WIHL and won another league championship and Allan Cup. [3] Just like the previous franchise, this Flyers team was then pushed out of the market by the Western Hockey League when the Great Falls Americans relocated to Spokane. Coincidentally, the new team was also named the Spokane Flyers.
Slapshot was the first mascot in Flyers' team history before Gritty, although the team did occasionally employ the services of "Phlex", the then-mascot of the team's minor-league affiliate Philadelphia Phantoms (1996–2009), who became the Adirondack Phantoms (2009–2014) and are now re-branded the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, playing in the PPL ...
The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to 12 teams. [2] Since the franchise was established, the team has had 23 head coaches, [3] including Fred Shero, who coached the Flyers to two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975, and was the inaugural winner of the Jack Adams Award in 1973 ...