The Flyers began 2001 – 02 with high expectations and with Roenick leading the team in scoring the Flyers finished with an Atlantic Division title.

The Flyers began the season with lofty expectations.

The Flyers began the 2007 – 08 season with the intention of putting the disaster of the previous season behind them.

The team was known as the Nashville Nighthawks in the 1996-97 season and changed monikers to the Ice Flyers in 1997-98, then folded when the Predators began play.

In 1992, the Maharishi began to send groups of Yogic Flyers to India, America, China and Brazil in an effort to increase global peace through a " coherent world consciousness ".

Lalime began his Senators career with a 3 – 0 shutout victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on October 2.

The Soul began play in February 2004, and played its home games at the Wells Fargo Center ( then known as the Wachovia Center ), home of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League and the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association.

He began the 2002 – 03 season with the Phoenix Coyotes and was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers near the end of the season.

The nickname " Flyers " is a tribute to the Wright Brothers who began their careers and invented the airplane in Dayton.

When the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team played her rendition of " God Bless America " before their game on December 11, 1969, an unusual part of her career began.

He began play with the Flyers in the 1999 – 2000 season, taking the starting position from veteran John Vanbiesbrouck and helped the team secure the Eastern Conference and Atlantic Division regular season titles while leading the NHL in goals against average at 1. 91.

He began his NHL career with the Flyers in 1999 and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team.

The newly-born Flyers, with Hiroshi Oshita becoming one of the most popular players in the league, began to attract many fans, but the team's administration still went into a deficit.

Since the league began tracking plus / minus as a statistic, the Boston Bruins have led the league 10 times, Edmonton Oilers 5 times, and 4 times each by players on the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, and Philadelphia Flyers.

The Flyers were to be a charter member of the North American League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, however, the team folded in March 2011, before they began play in the NAL.

The scoring began early off a Chris Schultz home run, his fourth of the season, putting the Flyers up 1-0 in the second inning.

Norm Ullman began his career with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the WCJHL, before moving to the Edmonton Flyers of the WHL.

However, hockey returned to the Civic Center in fall 2009 when the Pensacola Ice Flyers of the Southern Professional Hockey League began play.

Leo Labine began his career as a featured member of the Memorial Cup winning Barrie Flyers, the Boston Bruins OHA affiliate.

At that point, the village and park district which owned the stadium began eviction proceedings against the Flyers for failure to pay $ 551, 800 in back rent.

The Surf Dawgs were one of the eight original GBL charter teams that began play in 2005 along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers and Long Beach Armada in California ; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and the traveling Japan Samurai Bears.

The team was one of the original eight GBL charter teams that began play in 2005 along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California ; Mesa Miners, Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and the traveling Japan Samurai Bears.

The Miners started as one of eight charter teams in the GBL along with the Chico Outlaws, Fullerton Flyers, Long Beach Armada and San Diego Surf Dawgs in California, the Surprise Fightin ' Falcons and Yuma Scorpions in Arizona and a traveling team, the Japan Samurai Bears that began play in May 2005.

Founded as a private company under the name Business Flyers Basle by Moritz Suter, it changed to Crossair on 18 November 1978, before the beginning of scheduled services on 2 July 1979 with flights from Zürich to Nuremberg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt.

The Flyers ' starting goalie for the game, which was won by the Flyers alumni, 3-1, was Hall of Famer Bernie Parent who was also making his on ice appearance since his playing career had been prematurely ended by an eye injury suffered 33 years earlier in February, 1979 in a game against the Rangers played at the neighboring ( although since demolished ) Spectrum.

* 1979 Champions vs. Niagara Falls Flyers

* His # 1 was retired by the Philadelphia Flyers on October 11, 1979, the first jersey the Flyers have retired.

Ruslan Viktorovych Fedotenko (; born January 18, 1979 ) is a Ukrainian professional ice hockey winger, currently playing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), his second tenure with the team.

The Flyers appeared in the OHA finals in 1979, losing to Peterborough.

As the Canucks qualified for the 1979 playoffs as the final seed, Smyl scored his first NHL post-season goal in game one of the preliminary round against the Philadelphia Flyers.

In 1979 – 80, the Flyers had their record 35 game unbeaten streak, and Barber was in the centre of it all.

After being drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft ( second round, 35th overall ), he started his North American career during the 1980 – 81 season by playing one and a half seasons for the Maine Mariners of the AHL before playing his first games for the Flyers in 1982.

After starting the season with a 5 – 2 win over the New York Islanders and a 9 – 2 loss to the Atlanta Flames, the Flyers did not lose again for nearly three months, earning at least one point in every game between a 4 – 3 win over Toronto on October 14, 1979, and a 4 – 2 win over Buffalo on January 6, 1980, a span of 35 games.

Adams was passed over in the NHL Amateur Draft and signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1979.

Many members of the Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps ( National Socialist Flyers Corps – NSFK ) transferred to the Luftwaffe.

His 50th goal of the season came on December 30, 1981 in the final seconds of a 7 – 5 win against the Philadelphia Flyers and was his fifth of the game.

* January 11 – The 1976 Flyers-Red Army game results in a 4-1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union.

Only three other major North American professional sports teams have accomplished this feat, the 1941 – 42 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 2004 Boston Red Sox ( from the Major League Baseball ), and the 2009 – 10 Philadelphia Flyers.

In the third round of the playoffs, the Islanders nearly did it again, rallying from another 3 – 0 deficit to force a seventh game against the defending Stanley Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers before the Flyers took the decisive seventh game at home and went on to win the Stanley Cup.

They went on to win the series in six games and reach the finals for the first time in franchise history, where they would face the NHL's regular season champions, the Philadelphia Flyers, who had gone undefeated for 35 straight games ( 25 – 0 – 10 ) during the regular season.

The Rangers played a legendary semifinal series against the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1973 – 74 playoffs, losing in 7 games and becoming the first of the " Original Six " to lose a playoff series to an 1967 expansion team.

Gretzky's greatest accomplishment with the Rangers was leading them to the 1997 Eastern Conference finals, where they lost 4 – 1 to the Eric Lindros-led Philadelphia Flyers.

Part of the 1967 NHL Expansion, the Flyers were the first expansion team in the post-Original Six era to win the Stanley Cup, victorious in 1973 – 74 and again in 1974 – 75.

Beginning play in 1967 – 68, the Philadelphia Flyers made their debut on October 11, 1967, losing 5 – 1 on the road to the California Seals.

The Flyers made their home debut in front of a crowd of 7, 812, shutting out their intrastate rivals, the Pittsburgh Penguins, 1 – 0 on October 19.

As of the close of the 2010 – 11 Flyers season, the Flyers have a record of 89 – 25 – 4 when God Bless America is sung prior to Flyers home games.