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Ice hockey player
Bernie Parent
Hockey Hall of Fame, 1984
Parent in 2023
Born
(1945-04-03) April 3, 1945 (age 79) 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
and friend Dean Smith, Parent, who lives in Wildwood Crest most of the year, was hit with emotions." Parent, Bernie. "BernieParent, Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved...
minor-leaguers before expansion occurred. Among the Flyers' 20 selections were BernieParent, Doug Favell, Bill Sutherland, Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson, Lou Angotti...
Cup-clinching goals for the Boston Bruins in 1970 and 1972. Goaltender BernieParent (for the Philadelphia Flyers) and centres Wayne Gretzky (for the Edmonton...
then took the puck up the ice and scored on a slapshot past goaltender BernieParent with a little over a minute remaining in regulation time to propel the...
Maple Leafs 4–0 and the New York Islanders 4–3 to make it to the final. BernieParent was the outgunned Flyers' best player, allowing only 12 goals in the...
against; therefore their respective goaltenders, Tony Esposito and BernieParent, were both awarded the trophy, the only time that it would be shared...
began play, it had lured 67 former NHL players to its league, including BernieParent, Gerry Cheevers, Derek Sanderson, J. C. Tremblay, and Ted Green. The...
then took the puck up the ice and scored on a slapshot past goaltender BernieParent with a little over a minute remaining in regulation time to propel the...
Stanley Cup – BernieParent in 1974 and 1975 – and twice when they lost in the finals – Reggie Leach in 1976 and Ron Hextall in 1987. Parent and Hextall...
Larry Sanders said of their parents, "They were very pleased to be Jews, but didn't have a strong belief in God." Bernie had a bar mitzvah at the historic...
Roach, 58 Clint Benedict, 57 Jonathan Quick, 56 Eddie Giacomin, 54 BernieParent, 54 Goals against average is the average number of goals a goaltender...
their drug-addicted mother (Bernie's sister Stacy) is no longer able to be a proper parent. Bernie uses tough-love parenting tactics and he can be both...
Doyle played Bridget's wealthy parents, Walter and Amy Fitzgerald, and Stone and Osterwald played Bernie's lower-class parents, Sam and Sophie Steinberg....
Esposito won his third Vezina, sharing it with the Philadelphia Flyers' BernieParent, and was again named a Second Team All-Star. The Black Hawks declined...
With the six team expansion in 1967, and the Bruins losing goaltenders BernieParent and Doug Favell to the expansion Philadelphia Flyers, Cheevers became...
playoffs after the 1970–71 season with the addition of Sittler, as well as BernieParent and Jacques Plante, who were both acquired through trades during the...
in 1972. The Screaming Eagles made a splash immediately by signing BernieParent from the Toronto Maple Leafs—the first National Hockey League star inked...
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