When The Flyers Beat The Soviets - The Philadelphia Flyers-Red Army Story
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- On January 11th 1976, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Soviet Union's CSKA Moscow took to the ice in the final game of the Soviet's 'Super Series' tour against some of the NHL's oldest and most successful teams.
Though they had faced little resistance for most of the series, the Red Army team's encounter with the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions would be their toughest. With every NHL team and the entire hockey world watching, the 'Broadstreet Bullies' played one of their greatest and most memorable games in franchise history.
This is the story of the Philadelphia Flyers-Red Army game...
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The only night that NHL Commissioner Clarence Campbell rooted for the Flyers to win.
He went into the flyers locker room that night. The flyers players said that they wanted to tell him "get out. We know what we have to do"
The only night anyone outside of the Philly Tri-state area was a Flyers fan
@@taxdeductible8707 Not true, many Canadians at the time loved them. Many Canadians on the team too. Was my Grandpa's favourite team of all time.
@@jmarx3943 It was a day game.
@@taxdeductible8707 they are a tough team to love and a lot of hard times 💚
And they beat them with a backup goaltender. If Parent played they most definitely would have been shutout .
Damn straight!!!!! Possibly the greatest goaltender of all time
Love me some Bernie! And Pelle Lindbergh 💚💚💚
shut out.*
A shutout happens when one team is shut out.
That hit by Van Impe was clean
Yes, indeed. I was there, Section V Row 6. When 317 went down I said he took a dive. The incident was planned by Red Army as a contingency of they were in trouble.
@@LouisHansell I don't think he took dive. He got leveled. But the hit was clean.
@@antoniosciara7322Van Impe was definitely ‘old school’, and notably played on the edge, so the hit was hard, but cleanish by the standards of the day.
@@stinkfinger630according to Ed van Impe himself "He ran into my elbow with his chin". Unless elbowing was legal back then, it was a dirty hit, and a penalty.
People talk a lot about the hits by Van Imp etc. but the game wasn’t won by physical play. Not enough credit is given to head coach Fred Shero, who before film was a routine part of team meetings, sat and watched as much film as he could of the Soviet Red Army Team
In the NHL in the 70’s there was no such thing as an offensive or defensive “system” outside of, get the puck to your best player and hack Bobby Orr’s ankles. Fred “The Fog” Shero studied how the Red Army made their exits, made their zone entries, cycled the puck. He took what he saw and made arguably the first “system” in the NHL, completely stymieing the Soviets on the neutral zone not letting them get anything going in the transition game.
THAT’S what won the game against the Soviet hockey team. I’m glad you touched on that
I'm 56 from South Jersey. I grow up seeing that team in person. I got to meet them. I even had a dream come true being their bat boy for charity softball games. Coolest group of guys you could ever meet! Shultzy taught me how to open a beer bottle with my teeth. Those were great days back then!
The most amazing thing about this whole thing is that Mr. Bob Cole is still calling NHL games...and is still the best in the business. I was born in 81..and for as long as I can remember, Bob Cole has been the voice of CBC's, Saturday night, Hockey Night in Canada. In other words, Bob Cole has been the voice and narrator of my childhood and life. He is THE man.
and you need to remember Bill Hewitt, Brian McFarlin, and Harry Neal, and Dan Kelly
Mr. Cole actually retired last year. Oddly enough, the last game he called involved the same two teams that played during his first broadcast fifty years earlier, Toronto and Montreal.
He may be retired now, but he has been honoured in his hometown of St. John's, Newfoundland, as the press area at the Mile One Centre is named the Bob Cole Media Centre. He also received the Order of Canada in 2016.
I don't recall Cole doing Flyers games as back then the broadcast team was of Gene Hart and Don Earle and for this game the TV team was of Hart and Marv Albert as the game was shown on NBC who carried a Game of the Week in those days.
@@Rockhound6165 You do realize that games are shown in different areas, on different networks and with different broadcasting teams, right? Did you have the video on mute when you were watching it?
Loved Bill Hewitt and Brian McFarlane, their broadcasts were wonderfully professional, Bob Goldham too. Foster Hewitt was great considering he had no color man for a long time, he was fun and clear.
Philly shouldn’t have been called “the city of brotherly love” at this time
The absolute pinnacle of Flyers hockey. I was 15 and I remember it like it was yesterday.
I wasn't even born yet...but I watch this game religiously....man it must have been awesome to watch this as it happened
@@shawnmcburney6 it was..... i was 15 and lived outside philly in Levittown
i was 15 too. i Lived in Levittown, saw both Cups and this game too
i love my Flyers to this day..... they just need a great goalie.... as usual lol
I was 22 and at the game. They were more than heroes to us. They were family.
@@richardblass418 they were family to us fans and still are.
i'm 62 and i watch the documentary all the time
Flyers logo is the best in the NHL
love my bullies
I met a Canadian hockey player from the 70's and he said "All of Canada hated Philly except for that night".
Yep It's true, I was a Montreal fan and just love it when the Canadiens knocked off the flyers in 4, but that afternoon yep I too was a flyer fan
Well that’s not entirely true I live in Vancouver British Columbia and really didn’t give a shit about the Canucks The flyers for my team and Bernie Parent was my hero
And all of Canada has hated the United States since 1994 I assume?
@Rusty Shackleford ....AN WE DONT CARE!! What exit are ya from in jersey?? Let me guess you're from NORF JERTSY.....
I am a Canadian Hockey Player from the 70's and that's NOT TRUE. The only ones who hated the Flyers were those who LOST to them, no one hated them when they were losing.
As a Flyers fan, this is a great piece of history. Thank you! And, btw, we really are a friendly bunch in Philly. Come here any time and we'll show you around! 💚
As long as your wearing a flyers jersey
@@MidlandMac Not everyone is like that. I've never met a pens fan that I didn't have a great conversation and good time with.
@@indierockyhockey im a Flyers fan myself, and I do agree that most fans are nice, but there is a very vocal minority in philly who are not very friendly.
@@MidlandMac yep, greased poles and all
I remember watching that game on tv. Being a Flyers fan it was great. Being it was on my birthday it couldn’t have been a better birthday present. Then and now still a Flyers Fan.
I Have That Game on DVD Between The Flyers and The Soviet Union!
Sadly our team is a dumpster fire these days my friend.
It was my birthday also, and I was there. Flyers games were always exciting, and the atmosphere for this was over the top. Regular season, Flyers crowd was always seated before gametime. The building would normally be pretty full even by the pre-game skate. This crowd was seated at least 30 minutes before the pre-game skate. Red Army did their intimidation-skating drills, didn't work. Shero had anticipated the entire event.
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My father took me to that game when I was 9 years old. We were 6 rows from the ice. The most exciting game I ever saw the Flyers play.
City of Brotherly Love. My Father, a Canadians fan told me it was the only time he rooted for Philly
“His chin ran into my elbow and.. down he went”- Ed Van Impe
Nothing wrong with that hit.
I was there, Section V Row 6, seat 2. It happened right in front of me, and I had been watching Kharlmalov. The Russians had planned to stage an act they felt the game was getting away from them. It was a clean hit. I saw it, but better, Mr. Snider saw it and told the Russians to get on the ice or no money. They returned
It's merely a fresh wound!
@@derek7713 Only thing wrong with it that could be argued was it was a blind side, but even then it was a good body check the Russian guy just thought he was on the soccer pitch so he stayed down.
While the phrase by Cole may be a famous one, he was actually a play-by-play announcer for Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts, only just retiring last year after about 50 years in the booth.
He called this particular game for CBC with analyst Dick Irvin Jr.
I was there. Second greatest sporting event I ever attended. The first was when they beat Boston for the Cup at The Spectrum. Memories last a lifetime.
I bet the crowd was goin crazy 😂💯
5:25 - That "May we live in peace" on the ticket under the flags and "Philadelphia Flyers vs. Soviet Army Team" couldn't be more inopportune 😂
The Bruins were missing some of what would make them a force in the late 70s.
like cashman, esposito, hodge, Orr etc lol
@@joeclayton2121 The Bruins were acclimatizing to having Park and Ratelle in their Lineup, they still had Cashman, but they didn't have Gerry Cheevers yet, he would return from the WHA later that season. Gilles Gilbert was a good goalie, but you needed great Goaltending and Cheevers was great against the Soviets.
I realize that the rough and tough flyers came off as a bunch of lesser talented over-achievers, but they actually had a loaded roster of quality scorers and an excellent defense. If you look at the stats for 73-74 and 74-75 seasons you will find that they were 5th & 6th in Goals, 1st in Goals against both years (despite losing Barry Ashby to injury) 2nd and 3rd in point differential 2nd & 1st in Wins and Points (standings). Dave Shultz, for instance, was a 20 goal scorer in the 73-74 season. He had 29 goals and 62 points in those 2 years despite spending 802 minutes in the penalty box. The Flyers had (4) 30 goal scorers that first year and the next they had a 45 goal scorer and Clarke had 89 assists and 113 pts to go with 2 more 30 goal scorers. By 1976, there were truly potent with a 60 goal scorer, a 50 goal scorer, a 30 goal scorer (Clarke 119 pts) and like 5 more 20 goal scorers. In fact, the Flyers scored more goals than the Montreal Canadians in 1976, but the Canadian defense was the best in the league and their 127 pt & 58 win regular season speaks to just how great that team was.
no Bernie Parent didn't help
As a Flyers fan this always brings a smile and a huge sense of pride. My dad tells me how awesome watching the Flyers beat the Russians and the 80 Olympics were.
I love your account! Thank you for your vids!!!!
@Odd Man Rush I Have The Flyers Soviet Union Game on DVD and I’ve Been a Flyers Fan Since 1995!
“They're going home! They're going home! Yeah, they're going home!”
The genius that was Fred Shero threw the Soviet game at them, defensively....stop the passes, bottle up the neutral zone.....this was the forerunner of the 90s Devils trap
It was like a brain-dead version of the neutral zone trap. I'm one of the few people who will tell you watching this game makes me want to vomit it's so ugly.
@JSGuitar80 welcome to Philly. It will be a grimy, ugly, wonderful grind.
The building they played in was on broad street hence the name the broad street bullies
The narrator correctly credits the Flyer's win to coach Fred Shero. Shero had studied Soviet hockey for years before the 75/76 series was planned, and he executed that plan flawlessly against the Soviets. #15, Terry Crisp, also should get credit for this win. The strategy was to forecheck the Soviets in front of the blue line, preventing them from their comfort zone, controlling the puck in the offensive zone until a scoring opportunity happened.
The narrator lays on the 'bullies' theme in superficial, stereotypical hyperbolic fashion. But it was sound hockey that beat the Soviets, and that Red Army team wouldn't have won a game against Philadelphia even in a seven-game series, because Shero's plan undid everything the Soviets were trained to do on the ice.
The NHL treated the late-60s expansion teams like dirt, and resented the Flyers for being the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. But the Flyers ultimately had more HoF players on that team than did the Bruins, and the Soviets hadn't faced that talent level before.
Must of really pissed the league off when the finals the previous year were the Flyers and the Sabres.
Shero was nothing short of brilliant. He was eccentric, aloof and had some unorthodox methods for his players.
Before this game, he instructed his players to keep two things in mind:
1) Do not shoot unless you are absolutely certain you have a solid chance of scoring
2) If you have to, tie them up in their own zone and force face-offs (He observed they weren't overly good at winning face-offs)
How many times did the Flyers win over the Soviet Nats or their Elite Division clubs?
Every Canadian was a Flyers fan that day.
The Flyers were Canadian! 💚💚💚
Yeah, except that every Canadian who lived in Canada at that time hated the Flyers. Except on this day when they didn't want their country to be embarrassed by not winning any games to the Red Army. As Freddie Shero said before the game, paraphrased, " we're playing this game for the people of Philadelphia. ".he saw the hypocrisy of all of Canada suddenly pulling for the Flyers.
The broad street bullies. A great team.
this channel deserves way more views, you tell some interesting stories and being fairly new to NHL (started watching in 2013/14 season) I’m learning more about the history of the league and about players I didn’t get the chance to watch
The British narrator is great
yo you should do a “whatever happened to... Michael Leighton”
Working at Wal-Mart
Who cares
Just subscribed, love to see some more British ice hockey stories. The Poles beating the Soviets in World Championships would be a cool story too....
it was in 1976 and it was the only one the Poles win over the Soviets. While the Soviets beat the Poles in all other games with cosmic scores. For example the story of the Soviets 20:0 win over the Poles at 1973 World Championships would be much cooler story, would't it?
It's not U.S versus the Soviet Union more like Canada vs the USSR. The city maybe an American one not most player playing for the Flyers were Canadians.
Spoken like a true Canadian you poor soul you
They were representing the NHL, not specifically America, and trying to prove themselves as the best hockey team in the world at the time.
The Philadelphia Flyers are the last Stanley cup-winning team that are all Canadians....🇨🇦
He is right. The Flyers were all Canadian players but a few years later a American team full of amateurs would beat the Soviets
At 15:08 you stated that the actions of the Soviet coach to take his team off the ice prompted a comment by Flyers announcer Bob Cole that the Soviet team was going home.
Bob Cole was actually announcing for Hockey Night in Canada along with Dick Irvin for that game on a National Telecast. The Flyers announcer was Hall of Famer Gene Hart.
Unfortunately in your Flyers team picture, missing was the eventual winning goalie, Wayne Stephenson. Bernie Parent was dealing with a neck injury most of that season. And LOL, at 4:30 the picture on Pravda showing the cavemen Flyers holding clubs over the poor Russians. Kind of rich coming from a country that kept it's citizens behind walls with machine guns who would shoot anyone trying to escape. 5:22 LOL, ticket price, $9. 12:23 the old Philadelphia Bulletin and an article by the late, great Jim Barniak. Good find! The other Bulletin article you showed written by Jay Greenberg, Greenberg covered the Flyers for about 15 years before moving on to Sports Illustrated and the NY Post. Unfortunately he passed away this past August. And not mentioned that many of the Soviet players were on the Soviet national team when they lost to the Americans at the 1980 Olympics.
Oh, and to correct, Bob Cole wasn't a Flyers broadcaster. The Flyers broadcast team in those days were Gene Hart and Don Earle and for this game it was Gene Hart and Marv Albert as the game was broadcast on NBC. Also, the line about Joe Watson setting Soviet hockey back 25 years was because Watson, a great defenseman, wasn't known for his scoring prowess(1975-76 he scored 2 goals).
I was 14 lived in South Philly at the time ...we all skipped school for the parade on Broad st, on there win against the Bruins great times...
Montreal out played the Soviet team at their own game. Outshot them only tretiak saved the day.
Absolutely, and without the thuggery of the Flyers. Dryden had a poor game against the Red Army, allowing 3 goals on only 13 shots.
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I’m a huge Flyers fan and while I was too young to remember this happening, the lore makes it as though I were at the game. However I do remember the game from 1981 where the Flyers had a damn good team and were completely dominated by the Soviets. (Final score of 5-1 I think)One of the best teams I’ve ever seen and a Cold War slap to our American faces.
1983 in fact. I saw this game in USSR
@@Andyvas375 yes you’re right, 1983!
My grandma had just turned 27, and my mom was almost four
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From uk too myself.
Clarkie and Parent were gods to me in 76..:) Excellent.Thanks!!
They are still God's to me at 68.
"Nobody likes us...and we dont care".... -Jason Kelce
Love this video. I bleed orange and black.
Same. And bleeding orange and black hurts a lot these days 🧡🖤🧡🖤
Did landscaping work for Van Impe last year.
Really? ...haha...watch out for those elbows...
Coach Shero's perfect game plan, talented players carried it out. Would have beaten them 95 out of 100 times.
Flyers a bully team, slashing ankles and elbowing to the head - that was not hockey !!!! The Russian team's nice skating was a pleasure to watch at other games !!!!
Norman Tkachyk shut up
Norm-This was a hockey game not the ice capades. The russians got a well deserved ass kicking by the Flyers. If you hit an opponent and he doesn't like it then the best thing to do is hit him again. Really gets them off their game. Norm, stay healthy. Don't play a contact sport. May I suggest you take up knitting.
@@bethcooper4200
And make sure not to invite me to any of your get-togethers...
You don't host an event to beat up your guests.
What if they had done this in Moscow during the home and away series'?
People like you would've boycotted vodka for a whole year!
Everybody hates the flyers, except this one time. Go flyers
Watching the whole series, the Montreal vs Red Army game was one of the best ever played.
If not the greatest game ever....
How the hell is a tie game the best game ever ?....🤔 Leave your responses morons..
For historical accuracy: The 1975 Flyers were the last NHL champion made up entirely of Canadian players, so please omit the US-Russia Cold War nonsense, the Flyers babied the Russians after they returned to the ice and still easily outclassed them by playing hockey without physicality. Forget the Red Army resume - they were a professional hockey team playing against amateur teams outside of this exhibition series - they should never have lost games. If not for Tretiak the Red Army team would have lost 3 of their 4 games in this series
I can’t find much on the game, but they played again a few years later. I was at the game. I think Rick MacLeish had a hat trick. Not as colorful of a game but just as entertaining. Still back when there was a Russian style of game.
It would be really cool to see an NHL vs. KHL game
The NHL would crush them today. All the best Russian players play in the NHL unlike back then where they all played for the Red Army
2:14 I woulnt say the Red Army team had done a good job upsetting 3 Original Six teams. Thet got outclassed, outplayed, and outshot in that 3-3 tie with the Montreal Canadiens. Habs outshot the Soviets 38-13 and controlled the play. Only reason it was a 3-3 tie was Dryden leaked like a sieve and Tretiak stood on his head. Otherwise the Habs would have killed the Russkies on the scoreboard
You are damn right !
Also when he said that NHL vs Red Army games featured dropping of gloves, punch-ups & bench clearing brawls (or words to that effect), nothing could be further from the truth... The only such incident was the 1987, 'Piestany- Punch-up', involving Canadian vs Russian Junior, National Teams
You're so right when you look at the game now...and everybody says it's the greatest game ever played I disagree 🤔this was the greatest game!!!!!...
This is a great example why the Flyers are the coolest team in the NHL.
were* ;)
I don't believe anything Campbell was ever quoted of saying . The league expended dispite the fact he was totally incompetent. Long live The Broad Steet Bullies and may Fred Shero Rest in Peace !
The Flin Flon Bombers had a similar reputation, if not more so, for rough play. They were Canada’s best junior hockey team by far. Led by Bobby Clarke and Reg Leach. They didn't even need to play rough. They could have won on sheer talent alone.
And they had one of the best defenses in the 70s and Clarke, Barber and Parent are ALL hall of famers......stop being so European about it....Rich McLeash and Reggie Leach were both 50 goal scorers..
Barber was also a 50-goal scorer and these numbers are all too often forgotten by Flyer critics.
As a Flyers fan I love this.
We were "playing rude hockey that night" 💚💚💚
You might need to be corrected here. The Montreal Canadiens and the Red Army game of new years eve 1975 is consider by most hockey experts as the best ever played game between two club teams ever. It ended in a 3-3 tie
Ok 🤦♀️🙄😘
Markus: Exactly THE OPPOSITE is true. The PHLIARS were a DISGRACE. an EMBARRASSMENT to hockey that night vs. the Red Army - and everyone OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA knows it.
They learned the hard how they got the nickname "broadstreet bullies"
I remember when that team photo was in the Phila Inquirer and I taped it to my bedroom wall. Loved them Broad Street Bullies!
To this day "The Fog" still lingers
Why would you say "Flyers Announcer" at the 7m50s mark? He never worked for them. He worked for CBC and yet you post this video with inaccurate research. Good job.. LOL
Gene Hart called Flyers games.
I was at this game as part of my season Tix package I had from 1969-1986 Amazing game experience
"He ran into my elbow with his chin"....... Ed Van Impe
😂😂😂
@@indierockyhockey the flyers were brutal to the Russians
@@joeclayton2121 definitely. As they mentioned it was the last resort of defending North America's honor in some way. Way better teams were in this rotation. Leave it to Philly
@@indierockyhockey the Flyers were the baddest team in those couple of years
Bernie Parent didn't play in the 3 peat games and neither did Leach
Lol the Flyers were going for their 3 consecutive Stanley Cup; at that time, they were the best team.@@indierockyhockey
Wow never knew this story and thought the Red Army totally dominated everyone before the Miracle on Ice in 1980 🥅🏑🏆
You need to see Canada Cup '87, the final 3 games in the series were the best hockey ever witness. All games ended in a 6-5 score, next would be Canada Cup '76 Bobby Orr's swan song
@@markusstewart9986 , What about Paul Henderson's big goal in the last minute of the 8th and final game of the 72 Summit Series to beat the Soviets on their home ice , Canada's pride was at stake and they needed to win that game and boy did Henderson come through in the clutch !
Probably because you've only been exposed to American propaganda.
CCCP and their Elite Division clubs, such as CSKA (Central Red Army) etc. were apprx. 156W-52L-12D from 197? to 1992...
That is "dominate"
The flyers playing the trap completely confused red army
and who can forget the words of Bob Cole... They're going home!....
I saw the Russians in Pittsburgh in 1985. It ended in a 3-3 tie. No OT period was played. Mario against Soviets.
Mario, a class act and amazing talent
I was able to see the last edition of the CCCP touring North America in exhibition just before the Goodwill Games in 1990, and just after Fedorov defected.
Perfect game by flyrrs
Why is this the only game from the 76 superseries thats not online in full? Only clips...
Because they won through bullying
Bring on the Martians!
I love the bullies.I will admit I am a LA kings fan,The flyers are bad ass.They are America at their best! Long love the bullies!
At 51 seconds, you can see Big Bird, Larry Robinson in the background. He never wore a helmet with Montreal, at least I don't remember him wearing a helmet. Why is he wearing a helmet in this game?
Did you mean Don Saleski?
@@LouisHansell No, at 51 seconds, Larry Robison, #19 of the Candiens is going after that commie bastard Markrov.
@@Lawomenshoops Sorry, my mistake. Saleski was called Big Bird, and I didn't notice the Robinson clip.
@@LouisHansell Larry Robinson was also called Big Bird
@@Lawomenshoops Didn't know that! Just a random Spectrum story and Deep LR trivia: I had my tickets to the 1976 All-Star Game at will call. I got my tickets and turned out of the line standing behind me. The two women just behind me stepped to the window and told the tickets guy at the window, "Larry Robinson left us two tickets."
They wanted to prove they can play in NHL . Broad st. Bullies showed, play CUP level.
I can only imagine how much hockey was actually played
In that gane?? A lot...Rick McLeash breakaway blows tretiak away..... Reggie Leach snap shot..... Inferior team that day the commies
@@1987phillybilly the Europeans have done a pretty good job taking over in the NHL, there's no denying that
@@highwaymaintainer its still predominantly north american players
The Europeans came in and absolutely blew everyone away. There are far more substandard Canadian and American players in the league than Swedish, Finnish or Russian. I'm not saying either group is more skilled or more interesting, but the sheer number of North Americans isn't relevant in a conversation of skill.
@@highwaymaintainer cry more go pick that Russian off the ice 😂
America rallied around a bunch of soft-spoken but extremely tough Canadians to give a big middle finger to communinism.
The trap never fails
Joe watson was my old coach
The game played in Montréal was totally dominated by the Canadiens. The final score was 3-3 but Tretiak ,the russian goalie, was outstanding . He was named first star of the game. It's been said to be one of the most fabulous game in the history of hockey .
yeah maybe this Limey should comment on soccer he clearly didnt do research on the habs vs reds,
It has been noted that while the two Soviet club teams - the Red Army and the Wings - won five of the eight games they played against NHL clubs during the Super Series, they ultimately could not beat the NHL's three best teams - the Canadiens, the Flyers and the Sabres.
In fact, the evening after the Sabres shelled the Soviet Wings for twelve goals; they resumed their regular season schedule with a game at the Montreal Forum. It proved to be one of the rare occasions when the visiting team received a standing ovation from the Montreal Forum crowd.
Is there a full game footage of this somewhere? Does anyone know?
Yeah, the Flyers had Dave Shultz to to police the bad guys; but you dint know what your talking about “a bunch of goons”. Watch the Bruins during that era. The Flyers had a lot of talent, just look at the roster. They had two 50 goal scorers in Reggie Leach and Rick Macleash. Bobby Clark was 100 pt. man year after year.They had a handful of guys that were 20-30 goal men. The biggest thing, the Flyers were relentless forecheckers, and of course, BERNIE PARENT and BOBBY CLARK.
It's true.
"You can be the Broad Street Bullies. You can be the Joe Bolino Bullies. Unless you have the talent, you're not going to win...period, and they HAD the talent!" - Phil Esposito
If I ever meet Bobby Clarke, I'm going to shake hands with him, get his autograph, tell him he's still one of my favourite players, etc. And then I'm going to tell him, "When you get the opportunity, please give my regards to Ross Lonsberry."; one of the most underrated players of the era.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Yep that's phily
Commies were a bunch of cowards that night. Go Flyers!
2:59... basically a metaphor for what the soviets did to most of the NHL
Nice vid
This just shows how much of bullies philly was
They actually toned down the rough stuff after the Red Army boys were threatened to go home without money.
The Flyers then proceeded to pound the Red Army the old fashioned way; by outworking, out-shooting and outscoring the Moscow Mouseketeers.
Yeah Flyers weren't total animals 😊
It was a street fight on-ice with a little hockey being played in the background. Proud Philly moment
What an ignorant hockey statement!
You call that a street fight? The Red Army team offered little resistance and they KNEW what they were getting into when they entered The Spectrum.
As Darryl Sittler once noted about visiting NHL teams playing in The Spectrum, 'A lot of players were very concerned. You were getting into a situation where...they were like a pack of wolves."
Oh, and let's not forget four goals including a beauty by Rick MacLeish!
@@FischerFan well said! 🧡🖤
Very proud indeed we kicked the s*** out of those bastards now look at them what they're doing to the Ukraine.....
I actually didn't think that game was that dirty and the Canadians looked like they were playing scared.
You mean the ruskis.. the flyers are the last Stanley cup winning team with all Canadians...
alright lets go flyers
Wish they were still good
God bless coach fog.
I have been to Super Bowls, NBA Titles, Big Soccer Matches, Stanley Cup games, and World Series games, but nothing will ever come close to being at this game. The Spectrum in Philadelphia was absolutely electric. If not for the great Russian goaltender Tretiak, one of the greatest of all times, the Flyers would have won 12-1, as they crushed The Red Army, outshooting them 49-11.
What is it about Canadians that once they put on the Orange and Black a Broad Street Bully is born?
Bruins were not a force in the late 70's. Maybe you meant the late 60's.
Don't call them animals, that's what they want
This was more than a hockey game it was like a rollerball situation except ice hockey.. and it was real and the Flyers absolutely destroyed the Soviets.. there's so many backstories to this game there should be a movie made about it come on Rob Zombie...
7:07 Why is everybody always pickin' on me
The Red Army team was pretty much a Soviet All-Star team
That was the point genius