Jean Guy "Smitty" Gendron was a useful utility forward from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s. The Frenchman was dubbed ...

Rick Tocchet did it all in 18 NHL seasons. For every game he brought his work boots, his lunch pail and punched the clock. And more than a...

You would never know it by his NHL stint, but big Czech Jiri Dopita is very much a hockey legend, at least back home. Dopita is about ...

The Philadelphia Flyers fell on hard times In the early 1990s. They came within a couple of bounces of defeating the might Edmonton Oilers...

Rick Foley was an intriguing - and intimidating - blend of physicality and offense. The defenseman was a giant of his day. At 6'4...

I'm going to preface this article and come right out and say it: I like Eric Lindros. Actually he's one of my favorite players of th...

No hockey player worked harder than Bobby Clarke, the tenacious leader of the Philadelphia Flyers for 15 enjoyable years. As a result, no ...

Often looked upon as the baddest man in hockey, Dave "The Hammer" Schultz's reputation tended to precede him. He set the NHL...

Gordie Williams was a high scoring junior star with the Lethbridge Broncos. He starred in the southern Alberta city for three years. In his ...

Todd Bergen had everything it took to be a great hockey player, except for one thing - desire. That was taken away by a young Mike Keenan - ...

Rick St. Croix was born on January 3, 1955 in Kenora, Ontario. He played junior hockey with the Oshawa Generals of the OHL, from which he wa...

Few players know the rules better than Dan Kordic. He spent his professional hockey career breaking the rules. So what does a former penalty...

Hard work earned Dale Kushner his cup of NHL coffee. Never drafted, Kushner was signed by the New York Islanders in 1987 after playing as ...

Brent Fedyk was an interesting case. He was a bonafide scorer in junior (hence his 8th overall draft selection in 1985) and in the minor lea...

Gord Murphy played 14 NHL seasons and over 900 games including playoffs. Yet many will agree that Murphy never got enough recognition as a...

Up until the very late 1990s, the stereotypical European player in the NHL was a small player with little physical game what-so-ever. They w...

With his masterful stickhandling, goaltender Ron Hextall helped revolutionize the game of hockey. Ron Hextall's career started out l...

Lew Morrison was a high draft pick back in 1968. In fact he was selected 8th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers after demonstrating solid tw...

Rookie initiations are part of hockey lore. Perhaps the best story I've ever heard was of how the Philadelphia Flyers players welcomed a...

Philadelphia Flyers Legends Bill Barber   Bobby Clarke Eric Desjardins   Ron Hextall Mark ...

When the Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974, guess who head coach Fred Shero declared was the Flyers most valuable player of th...

When the Philadelphia Flyers won Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975, the players' fathers undoubtedly boasted to anyone who would listen ...

Barry Ashbee took the long route to the National Hockey League. Originally a Boston Bruins prospect since the late 1950s when he played juni...

Andre "Moose" Dupont came upon his nickname honestly - he was a big boy. "Two guys used to carry him out to the blue line a...