1984–85 Philadelphia Flyers season

NHLTeamSeason
Season=1984–85
Team=Philadelphia Flyers
Conference=Wales
ConferenceRank=1st
Division=Patrick
DivisionRank=1st
Record=53–20–7
HomeRecord=32–4–4
RoadRecord=21–16–3
GoalsFor=348
GoalsAgainst=241
GeneralManager=Bob Clarke
Coach=Mike Keenan
Captain=Dave Poulin
AltCaptain="None"
Arena=The Spectrum
Attendance=16,951 [FlyersHistory.net, [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/attend.cgi All Time Team Attendance] ]
GoalsLeader=Tim Kerr (54)
AssistsLeader=Brian Propp (54)
PointsLeader=Tim Kerr (98)
PIMLeader=Dave Brown (165)
PlusMinusLeader=Brad McCrimmon (+52)
WinsLeader=Pelle Lindbergh (40)
GAALeader=Bob Froese (2.41)
DivisionWin=yes
ConferenceWin=yesThe 1984–85 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Philadelphia Flyers 18th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers reached the 1985 Stanley Cup Finals.

Mike Keenan, a relative unknown at the time, was hired in 1984 to coach the team, and named second-year player Dave Poulin team captain. Behind the goaltending of Pelle Lindbergh (who led the league with 40 wins and won the Vezina Trophy) and two 40-goal scorers, Kerr and Propp, the Flyers posted a record of 53–20–7, good enough to be the best in the NHL. The Flyers would roll through the playoffs by sweeping the Rangers in three games, defeating the Islanders in five, and beating Quebec in six to return to the Stanley Cup Finals. Though they defeated the defending Stanley Cup Champion Oilers in Game 1 by a score of 4–1 at home, Edmonton won the next four games and the series.

Regular season

The Flyers recorded their second-highest single-season goal total (tied with 1975–76, and two fewer than the previous season) and allowed the third-fewest goals behind Washington and Buffalo.

On October 18, they tied a franchise record for most goals in one game, after a 13–2 rout of the lowly Vancouver Canucks at The Spectrum. They recorded another 10-plus goal contest on March 10 against Pittsburgh, crushing the Penguins 11–4. In addition, the team snapped the Edmonton Oilers' NHL record 12–0–3 unbeaten streak to start the year with a 7–5 win on November 11. Four days later, they paid tribute to recently-retired current GM Bob Clarke with a 6–1 slamming of the Hartford Whalers.

Although the club got off to a hot 16–4–4 start, they faltered in December, losing four straight games and five of six prior to Christmas. With the team's slate of games thin throughout January, the Washington Capitals surged to the top of the Patrick Division although the Flyers kept winning consistently.

After trailing the division-leading Capitals by 11 points in early February, the Flyers clinched the division title in late March and finished 12 points ahead of Washington, reeling off an incredible 24–4–0 record after February 9. In the process, the club set a franchise record with 11 straight wins from March 5–24.

One season before the President's Trophy was created to reward the NHL club with the most points, the Flyers finished the season with 113, four ahead of eventual Cup champion Edmonton.

Twice during the season two players recorded hat tricks in the same game. Propp and Ilkka Sinisalo turned the trick in the Vancouver rout, while Poulin and Kerr teamed up for six goals in a wild 9–6 win over Washington on March 7.

eason standings

Game log

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Playoffs

Game log

Awards and records

Awards

Additions and subtractions

Draft picks

Philadelphia's picks at the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. [hockeydb.com, [http://hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1984e.html 1984 NHL Entry Draft] ]

Farm teams

The Flyers were affiliated with the Hershey Bears of the AHL and the Kalamazoo Wings of the IHL. [FlyersHistory.net, [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/otheraffiliates.cgi Non-AHL Affiliates] ] [FlyersHistory.net, [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/ml-season.cgi?1984-85 AHL Season Overview: 1984–85] ]

ee also

*1984–85 NHL season
*1985 Stanley Cup Finals

References

*General: [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/season.cgi?1984-85 1984–85 Flyers season] on FlyersHistory.net
*Regular season game log: [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/games.cgi?1984-85 Philadelphia Flyers regular season game log] on FlyersHistory.net
*Playoffs game log: [http://www.flyershistory.net/cgi-bin/poffs.cgi Philadelphia Flyers playoffs game log] on FlyersHistory.net