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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 Flyers would rally to tie the series with an overtime win in game five and a double-overtime win in game six, but the Islanders shut out the Flyers 4–0 in game seven to end their season. Despite having lost in the playoffs, the team had very high expectations entering the 2020–21 season .
In the next four seasons, the Flyers would continue to make the playoffs each year but would only advance to the second round twice. Meanwhile, the Islanders would embark on a dynasty, winning three more Stanley Cups and making four more Stanley Cup Finals appearances. The two teams met again in the 1985 Division finals. Unlike 1980, the Flyers ...
The Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. [1]
Eric Lindros’ 41 goals during the 1992–93 season is the most by a Flyers rookie. His 1.58 points per game average during the 1995–96 season is also a franchise record. Dave Schultz holds the NHL single season record for most penalty minutes. Bernie Parent held the NHL single season wins record until he was surpassed in 2007. [62]
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 1980 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1979–80 season, and the culmination of the 1980 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested by the New York Islanders in their first-ever Finals appearance and the Philadelphia Flyers , in their fourth Finals appearance, and first since 1976.