I was born in Philadelphia in 1974, the year the Flyers won their first Stanley Cup. Growing up I was always a fan, as much as a kid could be, watching games on TV (remeber PRISM ?), went to a few games as a kid having gotten tickets as Christmas or Birthday gifts from family. I have always been a fan of the game and definately a Flyers fan. Heck, at one point while I was still living at home I had white walls and orange trim in the bedroom, and that's because mom wouldn't let me paint the walls black.

I'm thinking it was the mid to late 80's when I really got into the game and started to "follow" the team. Some of my favorites over the years ...

Tim Kerr
Pelle Eklund
Brian Propp
The Sutters
Rick Tocchet
Dave Poulin
Ron Hextall
Pete Zezel
Mark Howe
Eric Dejardins
Murray Craven
Chris Therien
Gordy Murphy

That's a short list, wanna add to it ...

Lindsay Carson
Garry Galley
Brad McCrimmon
Daryl Stanley
Dave Brown
Kevin Dineen
Pelle Lindbergh
Brad Jones
Mark LaForest
Jiri Latal
Tony Horacek

Yeah I have some obscure names, hardly anyone here born in the mid 80s remembers.

I guess if you want some of my all time faves:

Kevin Dineen
Dave Poulin
Brian Propp
Dmitry Yuskevich (the Tank!)
Vinny Prospal
Pelle Lindbergh
Ron Hextall
Mark Recchi
John Leclair
Rod Brind'amour
Jeremy Roenick
Keith Primeau

Rod Brind Amour

Paul Coffey

Mel Bridgeman
Bernie Parent
Bobby Clarke
Moose DuPont
Ken Linseman
Ron Flockhart
Mark Howe
Rich and Ron Sutter
Rick Tochett
Ilke Sinisalo
Pelle Eklund
John LeClair
Kieth Premieu
and recently added Mike Richards

Keith Primeau was my fav player ever. i will always miss watching him hit the ice.
i also liked Desjardins (sp?)

Tim Kerr
Keith Jones
Rick Tochett
Peter Zezel
Ron Hextall
Ilke Sinisalo
Mark Howe
Eric Lindros
Mark Recchi
Sammy Kapanen
Jeremy Roenick
Kieth Premieu

and Jeremy Roenick, forgot about him

well i'm 15 so i never got to see the cup teams play my favorite is mike comrie though... i know he only played like 15 games with us, but he's awesome.

those two are my favorite of all-time

Donald Brashear

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q1nRjRGi7sQ

john leclair, keith primeau

I guess it's obvious who my favorite is. But my list would include:

Mark Howe
Brad McCrimmon
Brian Propp
Dave Poulin
Brad Marsh
Tim Kerr (great guy, a little shy)
Ilkka Sinisalo
Jeremy Roenick
Rob DiMaio
Eric Desjardins
Kieth Jones
Kevin Haller
Rick Tocchet
Craig Berube
Jeff Chychrun (Bonus points if you remember him)
Dan Kordic
Shawn Antoski
Dave Brown
Ron Sutter

I think that's enough for now.

Keith Primeau

Def. my fav.

(and one of my best videos )

*Bump

Justin Williams
Danny Markov
John LeClair
Mark Recchi
Jeremy Roenick
Ruslan Fedotenko
Mike Comrie

Mark Recchi and Keith Primeau are a couple that come to mind...

My all time favorites:

Eric Lindros
Keith Primeau
Simon Gagne
Brian Boucher
Shjon Podein
Rick MacLeish (Never saw him play in person but he lives on, on those awesome Dvd's)

Lupul is my favorite player right now.

QUOTE (Twenty_Five)

Lupul is my favorite player right now.

+1 for Lups ...

Rick Macleish

Did you think Michel Petit would make anyones list? How about Dave Babych...Adam Oates?

I was born in 88 and I don't remember following the Flyers until the mid 90s (probably right when they started to contend again.)
More Seriously:
The Legion of Doom (Lecair, Lindros, Renberg): They were the first trio I ever remember watching in a game.
Ron Hextall... Do I need to say anything?
Rod Brind'amour: this guy epitomizes worth ethic.
Eric Desjardins: I don't think the Flyers realized how much he was worth until he retired.
Jeremy Roenick: One of the best personalities on and off the ice.
Keith Primeau: Helluva player, too bad his career was cut short.
Mark Recchi: When he was on, he was REALLY on, plus he had a lot of heart.

Eric Lindros
Eric Desjardins
Eric Hextall

Of all time...Eric Desjardins & Mike Knuble (I liked him since I began watching hockey, when he was with Detroit. I always wanted him on the Flyers and I was so happy to have gotten my wish haha.)

And others:
Keith Primeau
Rod Brind'Amour
Mike Sillinger (Dont know why but I personally liked him. Looking back, Im not sure why!)
Craig Berube (Chief is one of the nicest people I have EVER met in hockey)

Brind'Amour was by far my favorite player when i was a kid. he's the nicest celebrity i've ever met (though he's not really overly famous). Then i liked Brian Boucher, Bernie Parent, Dave Schultz, Keith Primeau, Bill Barber, Rich MacLeish, Reggie Leach, Bobby Clarke, Brian Propp, Mark Howe, Dorny, and Recci. i made a flyers collage back a few years ago for photoshop class in high school. i included all my favorite players and a few others.

Eric Hextall

Eric Lindros has always been my favorite, after he left it became John LeClair.

Loved the legion of doom!!!

My favorite was Lindros in his prime, being born in 74 i remember a lot of those 80's teams. Let's give an honorable mention to JJ Daigneault and who can't have the "VOICE" of the FLYERS GENE HART!! Nobody called a game better than Gene Hart with the Chief Bobby Taylor. Do you remember who replaced them on PRISM????

Answer: Mike Emrick and Bill Clement

Primeau, Roenick, Lindros and LeClair. I got into Hockey just a few years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWqyNCs8i3g

^ And I don't care how Lindros left, he was amazing to watch. My dad would make me watch the games when I was little, and Lindros was the only guy I wanted to see.


What, no Therien?

Cool pictures. I've gotta get to this carnival at some point.

Eric Lindros
Mikael Renberg
John Leclair
Dale Hawerchuk
Keith Primeau
Pelle Eklund
Joel Otto

Paul Coffey
Kjell Samuelsson
Karl Dykhuis
Chris Therien
Eric Desjardins

Ron Hextall

I choose players no longer playing in the NHL. Not necessarily for what they did for the Flyers perhaps (Hawerchuk). Dykhuis is a cool name.

Hehe, I'm afraid I don't go back that far, I remember Lindros from 1997. It was a lot harder 10 years ago (I was 11 then) to follow hockey (in the Netherlands) without internet.

It was just me and another guy, a friend of mine who were into hockey (he was a Red Wings fan though)

Rico and Prims are definitely my two favorites.

Mike Comrie the two weeks he was with us were great

jeff chychrun

macleish was great

brian propp and ron hextall are the two players that got me addicted to hockey. well them and my mom who was a huge flyers fan. some of my other favorites have been john leclair, mark howe, and some of the lesser players like trent klatt, ilkka sinisalo, brent fedyk, and pat falloon

I have been a Flyers fans since 1971 and there have been so many great players over the years, but I'll try to keep the list short. I know I have missed a few, but these are ones off the top of my head.

(Not in any specific order)

Roenick
Brind'amour
LeClair
Lindros--I know that I may catch some flack about this choice, but he had a lot of talent back in the day.
Primo
Clarke
Desjardins
Handzus
Barber
Parent
Schultz
Macleish
Kerr
Linsemen

Kevin Dineen
Dmitrij Juskevich
Ron Hextall
Rod Brind'amour
Justin Williams
Kim Johnson
Marcus Ragnarsson
Mark Recchi
John LeClair
Jeremy Roenick
Keith Primeau


Roenick was not only a class player for us, he was a real personality (and still is)! About half of the players above were in the 2004 playoff team. I´m still convinced had the Flyers made it to the finals, they would´ve won the Cup that year. It feels like if the Flyers were ever to win the Cup, it was in 2004. With the incredible team they had... Now it´s like starting from scratch again.

Clarke
Propp
Poulin
Barber
LeClair
Rechi
Brind'amour
Lindberg
Primeua
Hextall
Lindros
Sillinger
Dejardin

Ron Hextall
Jeremy Roenick
Keith Primeau
Donald Brashear
Eric Desjardins
John LeClair
Mark Recchi
Kim Johnsson
Eric Lindros
Keith Jones
Peter Forsberg
Rod Brind'amour

I'm sure there's more but they're escaping me right now

(NOTE: My list includes the players I was actually alive to see)

Pelle Lindbergh
Mark Howe
Dan Kordic
Ron Hextall
Brian Propp
Doug Crossmen

I have a Jeff Chychrun jersey....does that give me extra points?? I loved him !

Does anybody remember Dave Richter? He was an enforcer whp layed briefly in the mid 80s. He wasn'tmuch of a hockey player, but the guy could fight. He used to grab the opponent's collar with his left hand and then fire away with his right (or was it the other way around?) so rapidly that th eother guy couldn't even get set.

recchi <-- still have autographed picture on my wall
lindros <-- same as above
reneberg <-- who i think would have fit in with new flyers style hockey ( signed autographed rookie card)
hexy of course <-- same as top (also scored a goal on him at the Flyer wives fight for lives carnival)
propp
dave brown! <-- same as top
bernie
clarke
leclair <-- signed my forehead once lol
berube <-- same as top
tocchet <-- same as top

I'm only 18 and didn't really start following the Flyers until the 03-04 season, when I was..14. My Dad has always followed the Flyers though, and when I was young my favorite player was by far Lindros.

My list goes like this:

Lindros
LeClair
Hextall
Gagne
Primeau
Desjardin


...I hope I spelled all those right.

My current favorite player is a tie between Carter, Richards and Upshall.

Zeus
Brind'amour
Leclair
McGillis

and of course others mentioned above....

one of the young guns on this board, so most of these names are recent:

leclair
hextall
klatt
brind'amour
renberg
primeau
forsberg
kapanen (at one point, i referred to the flyers as "the philadelphia kapanens")
brashear
desjardins
recchi
knuble

Wow. Great list. I'd have to add Primeau, Bernie Parent, Pelle Lindbergh, Kevin Dineen, Peter Zezel, Dmitri Yushkevich (I don't know why but I've always really liked him), Rod Brind'Amour, and maybe a few others.

Here's a list of the past players I enjoyed watching sinceI been a fan in the 95-96 season.

Lindros
Roenick
Preams
Hextall
Forsberg
Brashear
Richardson
Podien
LeClair
Brind'Amour
C.Gratton
Coffey
Johnsson
Amonte
Therein
Desjardins
Niinaama
Prospal
Hatcher(maybe)
J.Williams
Zues
Falloon
Otto
Renberg

Alot more I didnt mention but I feel I named enough players.