The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Philadelphia Flyers: Heart-pounding, Jaw-dropping, and Gut-wrenching Moments from Philadelphia Flyers History

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Philadelphia Flyers: Heart-pounding, Jaw-dropping, and Gut-wrenching Moments from Philadelphia Flyers History

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Philadelphia Flyers: Heart-pounding, Jaw-dropping, and Gut-wrenching Moments from Philadelphia Flyers History

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Philadelphia Flyers: Heart-pounding, Jaw-dropping, and Gut-wrenching Moments from Philadelphia Flyers History

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Overview

This monumental book about the Philadelphia Flyers not only documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Flyers highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the era of the “Broad Street Bullies” as well as the playoff drought in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Learn how visionary founding owner Ed Snider created the Flyers and sold the city of Philadelphia on the sport of hockey. Get the inside story of how the franchise built a championship squad, then repeatedly rebuilt it over the next three decades to stay at the top of the NHL—in the process compiling the league’s second-best all-time winning percentage. Enjoy classic tales about the great rivalries (especially with the Rangers, Devils, and Penguins), about the great coaches—including Fred Shero and Pat Quinn—and countless great players: Barber, Clarke, Parent, Poulin, Hextall, Primeau, and many more. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team and its history is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all. This updated edition takes readers through the 2012–13 season and features the Flyers’ trip to the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals as well as recent stars Claude Giroux, Scott Hartnell, Kimmo Timonen, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781600788765
Publisher: Triumph Books
Publication date: 11/01/2013
Edition description: Revised and updated edition
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 512,248
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Adam Kimelman is the deputy managing editor at NHL.com. He covered the Philadelphia Flyers for the Times of Trenton and is the author of 100 Things Flyers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. He lives in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Keith Primeau is a former National Hockey League player who played for the Philadelphia Flyers for six seasons and was the team’s captain for four seasons. He lives in Voorhees, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Foreword Keith Primeau v

Acknowledgments vii

The Beginning

Blissful Ignorance 1

The Expansion Draft 12

The First Season 16

The Good

Building the Bullies 23

Cup I 32

Cup II 42

Defeating the Red Menace 52

Flyers Carnival 57

The Kids & The Cup I 61

The Kids & The Cup II 70

Suprimeau 81

The Comeback 92

Philadelphia's Classic Moment 104

The Bad

1976 109

The Fog Rolls Out of Philadelphia 115

Leon Stickle 119

"A Choking Situation" 125

Fight Night in Philly 133

Primeau Bows Out 137

2007: A Disaster of Historic Proportions 141

Meet Bob-Boosh-Ton 149

Lappy 155

The Ugly

Barry Ashbee 161

Bernie Parent: Beaten Up, Beaten Down 167

Pelle Lindbergh 171

Chelios Lays Out Propp 177

Roger Neilson's Painful Admission 181

The Barber Revolt 185

Tertyshny and Hart-Tragedy Times Two 191

Chris Pronger 196

Eric Lindros

Welcome to Philadelphia 205

Off-Ice Issues 210

The Legion of Doom 214

The Collapsed Lung 218

Momma and Poppa Lindros 223

The End 227

Rebirth

Sold! 237

Rebuilding 241

Changing Course 249

Stadiums

The Spectrum 257

Spectrum II-The Five-Year, Five-Day Deal 261

Farewell to the Spectrum 266

Numbers Don't Lie

The Streak 271

Mr. Plus, Mark Howe 279

Hextall Shoots… He Scores! 285

Tim Kerr, Sultan of the Slot 289

"It's Going to Be an Interesting Series" 295

Fat Lady Sings

Bobby Clarke Wins It in Boston 303

Dave Poulin 305

The Game That Would Never End 311

Never a Doubt 316

The Flyers Family

Bobby Clarke 327

Family Bonds 336

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