Flyers Hockey

Welcome to my Philadelphia Flyers Hockey blog. 

 

I will be documenting events and people (mostly players) from the Flyers, who will be celebrating their 60th season in the Fall of 2026. 

 

As you know, the Flyers were one of the six expansion teams in 1967-68, and although finishing first in their division that season, they lost the first playoff round.

 

I was aware of the Flyers from their original season (as I remember the news stories of the roof blowing off their home arena late in that first season), but I didn't really follow them until their 1973-74 playoff march to their first Stanley Cup (when the entire Philadelphia area caught Flyers Fever).

 

However, although not following hockey until then, I did collect hockey cards during the 1971-72 season (the only year I collected hockey cards, despite collecting baseball and football cards for most of 1967 to 1972). I will be posting those cards here shortly.

 

My real intro to the Flyers came in the Spring of 1974.  I was working a summer job at a lumber mill in a town near me, and during lunchtime, several of us would gobble our lunch in 5 minutes, and spend the remaining 25 minutes playing floor hockey in the warehouse.  One guy was such a rabid fan that he kept up the play-by-play while running up and down the court chasing or shooting the puck.

 

I recall that was the best part of our day, and it lasted the entire playoff season, all the way through the Flyers winning the Cup.  I had the same job the next summer, when the Flyers won the Cup again, while we re-enacted the action every day during lunch. 

 

Over the years, my interest in the Flyers waned, until my sons became interested in hockey (during the final Eric Lindros years). 

 

I don't expect there will be anything new in this blog's content, but I feel that I want to curate what was important and/or interesting to me over the past 60 years.