Bernie Parent - The best ever!! My boyhood hero. If I'm not mistaken, he's the only hockey goaltender to make the cover of TIME magazine...and it wasn't his face but his mask. "Only the Lord saves more than Bernie". Do you remember that sign in the crowd back in 75?

Parent was very good. (And yes, I remember the signs and the bumper stickers about Bernie)

In the regular season of 1974, critics claimed that Parent won games simply because the Flyers outshot and outplayed the opposition of a weak Western Division (remember, at the time, the Western Division was largely expansion teams).

But in the finals, Boston outshot the Flyers in nearly every game - Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr were both quoted afterwards as saying they were the better team, but just could not get past Parent. I have the DVD of Game 6 of the '74 finals, when Parent and the Flyers won, 1-0 - Parent made some acrobatic saves on some Boston power plays that would still be considered tremendous by today's comparisons.