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| Bernie Parent | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hockey Hall of Fame, 1984 | |||
.jpg) Parent in 2023 | |||
| Born |
April 3, 1945 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Caught | Left | ||
| Played for |
Boston Bruins Philadelphia Flyers Toronto Maple Leafs Philadelphia Blazers | ||
| Playing career | 1965–1979 | ||
Bernard Marcel Parent (born April 3, 1945) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs between 1965 and 1979, and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Philadelphia Blazers during the 1972–73 season. Parent is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time.[1]
During the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons, in what many consider the finest consecutive seasons ever by a goaltender,[2] the Flyers won the Stanley Cup twice and Parent won the Vezina Trophy and Conn Smythe Trophy both seasons. In that two-year run of dominance, Parent posted 30 shutouts in regular and post season play combined. A 1984 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Parent was rated number 63 on The Hockey News' list of The Top 100 NHL Players of All-Time in 1998.[3] Parent remains an iconic fan favorite in Philadelphia more than three decades after his retirement. In 2017 Parent was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.[4][5]
- ^ Boyle, Chris (October 24, 2014). "Stats say the greatest NHL goalie is… ?". Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Jackson, Jim. Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now. Sports Publishing L.L.C. p. 37.
- ^ Dryden, Steve (1998). The Top 100 NHL Players of All-Time.
- ^ "100 Greatest NHL Players". National Hockey League. January 27, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ NHL (March 22, 2017), Bernie Parent backstopped Flyers to back-to-back Cups, retrieved April 25, 2017