The Finalists: 1997 Philadelphia Flyers
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- The Flyers are excellent at reaching the Finals. They have trouble getting over that hump though.
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Yzerman's 13th season and the year he rids himself of the choker label. This year is Ovechkin's 13th season.
KJ illuminati confirmed. Every Generation has a generational talent that gets rid of their chocker label in their lucky number 13th season
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Reid Boucher or the bezt youtuber
I agree with the latter.
8 times in the finals and sadly only 2 cups. Being a flyers fan is hard sometimes. You have to watch the penguins win a few cups with generational talent and we can't do anything! Damnit
Being a Penguins-fan isn’t easy either. Sure, now days it’s fantastic but remember that from 1967-1991 the Penguins never made it past the 2nd round and everyone said they would never win. Time changes.
and the countless times they wanted to kill you guys and move you
Filip Nässén Yeah and when they almost moved before crosby came
Well that's what we get for not tanking for any of that generational talent. We tryna build our teams with Morin's and Rubtsov's
Mario Lemieux made sure the Penguins stayed in Pittsburgh, with or without Crosby.
I turned 6 the day of Game 4 of the Cup Final. Happy birthday to me. Let's Go Flyers!
This was the 1st year I ever got into hockey. I was only around 5 and to this day leclair is still my favorite flyer of all time if he gets into the hall or not. I haven't gotten to taste the sweetness of a cup win yet with my flyers, due to the great goaltending we seem to always have.... I got to go to my first game during that playoffs and will never forget it. Been waiting for you to do this video for the last two weeks and man it was sad to think this team never won anything. Thanks for all your content thg! I love it all and try to never miss a video!
>due to the great goaltending we seem to always have
Dude, it's not like you have had an elite defense to help your goalies either. Typical Philly fans that always blames the goalie :D
Tompa8989 its comments like this is why I can't wait for him to do the video (he said he was gonna make) on the graveyard of grade a decision making homer did as a gm when it came to the g. Just to stay in the last few goalies from before hexy went to be gm, we traded a future all star goalie for Mason. Yes he had success his first year and fizzled out inconsistently for the rest of his career so far. We signed bryz...for what almost a 10year contract. Not a contract most fans who actually pay attention to the sport liked, now we are paying him till I believe 2025? Happy to see we finally have a gm who wants to develop his goalie and not trade away our future for dying stars.
Lindros was one of a kind.
This was the year I really became a Flyers fan (8 years old) and it was heartbreaking... but it was nowhere near as painful as the Eastern Conference Finals in 2000. That was when the Flyers blew a 3-1 series lead over the Devils... only to lose game 7 (2-1) AND have Scott Stevens end Lindros' Philadelphia career in the same game on that vicious head shot.
The big thing I remember was everybody in my house celebrating Philadelphia losing. That was the day I learned nobody in my family liked them, lol.
This video makes me so sad
The Legion of Doom never REALLY played in a Stanley Cup.
The Legion of Doom was only 78 games together before Renberg had an injury that permanently changed the player he was.
You are absolutely right that goaltending let Philly down. The starting goalie let in a bad goal in every game of the Finals. Can’t get away with that against a team like Detroit
Honestly I just watched game 1 again. Hextall let in one bad goal but had a good game. The defense really blew it as the first two goals were turnovers that led to a breakaway on hextall than a 2 on 0 against Hextall. Bad giveaways. Plus Terry Murray switching goaltenders left & right didnt help
Couple of ideas for videos
1. Could you do a video on the dislike that Scotty Bowman and Paul Coffey had for one another?
2. Is Eric Lindros a bust?
I know it sounds like "of course not" but consider this, if you had told anyone when he was drafted that he would score less than 1000 points, would only crack 100 points once in a season, would win the Hart once and never win the Art Ross, would go to one SCF where his team would fail to win a game, would take him several years to get into the Hall of Fame, and would basically be done as an NHL player in 10 years, a lot of people would have considered that a bust seeing all the hype around him and all the Flyers gave up to get him (especially since the Cup teams for Colorado were built on that trade).
CountElvis Lindros isn’t a bust but him and his parents ugh
I don't think that he is and even if he was a lot of it wasn't his fault (I blame the Flyers, the NHL, and his parents), but considering how much hype he had on him and how much the Flyers gave up, I can see how he would be considered one.
CountElvis he was the most gifted player we've ever seen. Nobody has ever had that size that skill and that mean streak. Too bad the NHL allowed guys like Scott Stevens to take head shots routinely, or else Lindros would've had the long career to prove more.
I wouldn't say he was a bust but considering how he was touted you have to say he absolutely underachieved. He was also fragile to. He wasn't what he was suppose to be.
finally in the era when I know the majority of the names on the board ;)
This was heartbreaking for me when it happened.
LeClair definitely deserves a nod for the hockey hall of fame, he was better then Lindros in terms of longevity and staying healthy. Multiple 50 goal scorer, 2 gwg’s in OT vs LA in the SCF with Montreal in 1993 games 3 and 4. In my opinion LeClair is one the best American players to play the game pound for pound
Vladdy dropped the hammer on Lindros. That goal by McCarty though.....
Paul Coffey was ironically the reason the Red Wings were in the Finals. He was traded just days prior to the start of the 1996-1997 season to Hartford with Keith Primeau and a 1st for Brendan Shanahan. And Shanahan really set the tone for the team going forward. There's no way the subsequent seasons were so successful with out him. Coffey only got 20 games in Hartford before getting sent to Philly and appearing here. Primeau would end up a Flyer too, although later.
I'm surprised the Coffey against his former team storyline didn't get more traction. I think he just didn't have an impact in the Finals
Lindros was fragile and never reached the levels he was touted as going to get to. Not a bust but he was an underachiever. "The Next Gretzky? He wasn't even the first Lindros."
No one thought he was the next Gretzky. He was never projected to produce that kind of offense.
He was definately called the next one. People thought he would be unstoppable. Looking back Philly should have let NYR have him. Now no one would trade Forsberg straight across for Lindros, nevermind the whole team AND Forsberg!
i always believe trading for lindros was a big mistake clarke time as a gm is a big reason he isnt in the top ten in my top ten flyers list i am sorry but he fucked up to many times that lead to us not winnning the cup and those damn UNFUNNY 1975 JOKES!
@@joshkusiak7613 Clarke didn't trade for Lindros. It was Russ Farwell with Jay Snider at the helm at the time. If anything, Clarke did what he could do with the situation by trading to create the Legion of Doom line. Clarke's fault lies with not addressing the thin d-corp to go along with mediocre goaltending. As far as finding talent up front, he was top notch.
Being a Flyers fan the finals was tough on my sanity. Love Brind'A mour was & still is my all time Flyers.
Being a long time Jets fan I was hoping "Ducky" would win it all.
as a flyers fan, it enough alcohol exists on this planet to wipe the memory of the 97 finals from my mind
Snow and Hextall are both GMs and can’t find franchise goalies lol...
Jonathan Zygmunt Carter Hart?
Philadelphia Sport fan we got us one
I think Rod Brind'Amour should be in the Hall of Fame.
It’s a shame as a Flyers fan and a goalie myself that over the last 20 years my favorite goalies if I can really even say that are Marty Biron, Brian Boucher and maybe Neuiverth. You see what I’m saying it’s been sad , I heard fans of Pittsburgh talk shit on Fluery for years. If the Flyers had him we have one cup minimum prob 2-3. We lost the finals against Chicago, which I was @ Game 3 in Philly just because Michael Leighton was our goalie. If Philly don’t bring Hart up this year to be between the pipes it’s a crime against
humanity.
this makes me wonder if the Flyers didn't get Lindros and kept all the players and first round pick that they traded to get him.
you would have a team of
forsberg
brind'amour
ricci
leclair
renberg
simon
klatt
hawerchuk
desjardins
jonsson (with the 93 first rounder they gave to quebec for lindros)
duchesne
svoboda
yushkevich
carkner
niinima
therien
hextall
they'd still be weak on the wings, but they'd have the best center depth int he NHL with forsberg-brind'amour-Ricci as well as a way better defense. i genuinely think with that roster, they might have a better chance. certainly in 95 and 96.
Even Garth Snows gargantuan shoulder pads couldn't sneak a win. 😊
The Flyers just couldn’t really adjust well to that left wing lock. They would’ve been fine in this series if they could’ve just found a way to crash the blue lines. They had the talent and size to contend with detroit, they dominated the face offs won. Being swept was just sad. I remember thinking how game 3 just broke the will of the Flyers, and Lindros just looked defeated.
after a discovery of mob connections, I remember a lot of rumors about lindros throwing this series. here is where things get interesting- in small circles close to the organization it's said that ed snider (flyers owner) was so mad about this that he ordered the trainers to supply lindros with inferior equipment, specifically helmets, the following years. this of course resulting in many concussions.
As a Flyers fan we got exposed in net our goaltending was TERRIBLE if the Flyers even had a competent goaltender that year it’s a much different series not saying we win but hextall let in some REALLY BAD goals that turned games upside down
Wings were chokers but then they became not tje chokers they went back to back champions
One great line meh
Legion of doom baby
Go wings
Jonathan Hockey Wings are gonna suck for awhile.
Yep, go out of the playoffs :D
can't buy cups anymore
All of you bring up fantastic points, however have you considered that uh.. um.. I got nothing
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I didn’t know that it happened
They needed Bernie Parent!!!
I wuv u
LeClair isn’t in the HoF?!
Nope.
1995-2000
#1 Jagr 262 goals
#2 LeClair 261 goals
I rest my case. LeClair is a HOFer easy
Philadelphia was just dominated and stood in the way of Destiny that was the Detroit red wings i dont think any eastern conference team could have matched Detroit red wings in the way of Destiny if only my Buffalo sabres would have got another goal scorer and a play making defensemen for Dominic Hasek who knows how many Stanley cups Buffalo could have won we waisted Dominic Hasek
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When this happened I was happy for the Red Wings and years later I would curse their name XD O' Philadelphia how I loved to dislike you with a burning passion.
I still think Philly would have found a way to come back and win it in 2010 if Chicago didn't eliminate them in sudden death. Philly was Chumbawhumba (probably misspelled) Tubthumping all playoffs that year.
I hated this Flyers team, i hated Lindros. He destroyed the franchise.
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