The Philadelphia Flyers were one of six teams to enter the
National Hockey League as part of the 1967-68 expansion. The Flyers were the
first of the six to win a Stanley Cup, accomplishing the feat in 1973-74 and
again in 1974-75. The team has seen surprisingly few individual offensive
outbreaks. Just five different players have totaled 100 or more points in a
single season with the record sitting at a surpassable 123.
Mark Recchi
Mark Recchi holds Philadelphia’s single season record with
123 points. Recchi accomplished this over 84 games in 1992-93, scoring 53 goals
and adding 70 assists. The total was good for just tenth place in the NHL that
season with Mario Lemieux capturing the Art Ross Trophy with 160 points. As a
team, Philadelphia finished fifth in the Patrick Division that year, out of
playoff contention.
Recchi was originally a fourth round pick of the Pittsburgh
Penguins in 1988. 1992-93 was one three times Mark surpassed the 100 point
plateau over his 1,652 game NHL career. He played in the league from 1988-89 to
2010-11 with the Penguins, Flyers, Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes,
Atlanta Thrashers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins. He sits fourth on the
NHL’s all-time games played list behind only Gordie Howe, Mark Messier and Ron
Francis.
Bobby Clarke
Bobby Clarke is behind the second and third single season
point productions in Flyers history. In 1975-76, he accumulated 119 points on
30 goals and 89 assists in 76 games. He finished second to Guy Lafleur of the
Montreal Canadiens in the scoring race and won the Hart Trophy as league MVP.
The Flyers finished first in the Patrick Division and second overall, behind
only Montreal. Philadelphia met the Canadiens in the Stanley Cup final and were
swept in four games.
Clarke was a second round pick of the Flyers in 1969. He
played a total of 1,144 regular season NHL games between 1969-70 and 1983-84,
all with Philadelphia. He won the Hart Memorial Trophy on three occasions and
was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987. The Bob Clarke Trophy is
handed out each season in the WHL to the player with the most points. Clarke
led the league twice as a member of the Flin Flon Bombers in 1967-68 and
1968-69.
Bobby totalled 116 points the previous season, 1974-75, on
27 goals and 89 assists over 80 games. Clarke finished sixth in the race for
the Art Ross Trophy, behind winner Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins. The Flyers
finished the regular season first in the Patrick Division and won the Stanley
Cup with a 4-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres.
Eric Lindros
Eric Lindros contributed 115 points in 1995-96 on 47 goals
and 68 assists in 73 games. It was Eric’s only 100 point season and he finished
that season sixth in the NHL with Mario Lemieux leading with 161. The Flyers
were first in the Atlantic Division and bowed out to the Florida Panthers in
the Eastern Conference semi-finals.
Lindros was the first overall pick at the 1991 NHL Entry
Draft, going to the Quebec Nordiques. He was fresh off earning the Eddie Powers
Trophy as the Ontario Hockey League’s leading scorer with 149 points in just 57
games with the Oshawa Generals. He played 760 regular season games during his
NHL career with the Flyers, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Dallas
Stars. He won the Hart Trophy in 1994-95.
Bill Barber
Bill Barber played second fiddle to Bobby Clarke in 1975-76
with 112 points on 50 goals and 62 assists in 80 games. Barber finished fourth
in league scoring, two positions behind Clarke. It was Bill’s only 100 point
season in the NHL after two with the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey
Association.
He was the seventh overall pick at the 1972 NHL Amateur
Draft. He played 903 regular season games between 1972-73 and 1983-84, all with
the Flyers. Barber was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990.
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