1991–92 Philadelphia Flyers season

NHLTeamSeason
Season=1991–92
Team=Philadelphia Flyers
Conference=Wales
ConferenceRank=8th
Division=Patrick
DivisionRank=6th
Record=32–37–11
HomeRecord=22–11–7
RoadRecord=10–26–4
GoalsFor=252
GoalsAgainst=273
GeneralManager=Russ Farwell
Coach=Paul Holmgren
Bill Dineen
Captain=Rick Tocchet (Oct-Feb)
"Vacant" (Feb-Apr)
AltCaptain=Terry Carkner
Kevin Dineen
Arena=The Spectrum
Attendance=17,140 [FlyersHistory.net, [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/attend.cgi All Time Team Attendance] ]
GoalsLeader=Rod Brind'Amour (33)
AssistsLeader=Rod Brind'Amour (44)
PointsLeader=Rod Brind'Amour (77)
PIMLeader=Terry Carkner (195)
PlusMinusLeader=Mark Howe (+18)
WinsLeader=Ron Hextall (16)
GAALeader=Dominic Roussel (2.60)The 1991–92 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Philadelphia Flyers 25th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers hosted the 43rd NHL All-Star Game.

Prior to the 1991–92 season, the Flyers acquired Rod Brind'Amour from St. Louis. Brind'Amour would lead the Flyers in goals (33), assists (44), and points (77) in his first season with the club. With Ron Sutter gone to St. Louis in the Brind'Amour trade, Rick Tocchet was named team captain. As the Flyers continued to flounder, Paul Holmgren was fired midway through the season and replaced by Bill Dineen, father of Flyer Kevin Dineen. On February 19, the Flyers and Pittsburgh made a major five-player deal which featured Tocchet — who never grew comfortably into the role of captain — heading to Pittsburgh and Mark Recchi coming to Philadelphia. Recchi recorded 27 points in his first 22 games as a Flyer, but the team missed the playoffs for the third consecutive year, due in large part to an awful road record (10–26–4).

Regular season

With Brind'Amour and Dan Quinn in the fold to create more offense, plus a vastly-more-healthy Hextall in net, the Flyers still got off to an 0–3–1 start. After a 4–2 win over New Jersey, the club awakened, trading roughly two wins for every loss and climbing to 8–8–1 following back-to-back 3–1 wins over Edmonton and in Montreal in mid-November.

From there, injuries and poor play from regulars began to doom Paul Holmgren's tenure behind the bench. An eight-game winless streak (0–7–1) effectively put an end to his tenure. Malcontented Murray Craven was traded to Hartford for the younger Dineen during the run, which included horrible home losses to the Whalers (7–3 on November 27) and the Penguins (9–3 on November 29). In both home games, the Spectrum crowd loudly chanted "Paul Must Go" during multiple stoppages in play. They got their wish on December 4, with the Flyers at 8–14–2, as Bill Dineen took the helm.

The team began his tenure at 4–1–5, but still slipped into last place by late January. A 7–1–2 string brought the club within striking distance of a playoff spot by mid-February, but an inability to win on the road within the division sabotaged their comeback effort. After the three-way deal between the Flyers, Penguins and Kings was completed, the club had an infusion of scoring with Recchi, but it was too late to make up ground in the standings.

A five-game win streak from March 12–22 yielded a 7–6 comeback win over the Capitals in Landover, in which the Flyers scored four times in the third period - but the momentum didn't last as a 2–5–0 finish, compounded by a 12-day NHLPA strike, sent the club into the Patrick Division basement for the second time in three years.

eason standings

Game log

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Playoffs

"The Flyers did not qualify for the post-season."

Player stats

katers

"Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes"

Transactions

The Flyers were involved in the following transactions before/during the 1991–92 season.

Trades

Draft picks

Philadelphia's picks at the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. [hockeydb.com, [http://hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1991e.html 1991 NHL Entry Draft] ] [hockeydb.com, [http://hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1991s.html 1991 NHL Supplemental Draft] ]

Farm teams

The Flyers were affiliated with the Hershey Bears of the AHL. [FlyersHistory.net, [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/ml-season.cgi?1991-92 AHL Season Overview: 1991–92] ]

ee also

*1991–92 NHL season

References

*General: [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/season.cgi?1991-92 1991–92 Flyers season] on FlyersHistory.net
*Regular season game log: [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/games.cgi?1991-92 Philadelphia Flyers regular season game log] on FlyersHistory.net
*Season overview: Bill Meltzer, [http://flyers.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=356083&page=NewsPage&service=page Dineen Father-Son Team Lifts Flyers] , philadelphiaflyers.com