Philadelphia Flyers Trivia
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46 free Philadelphia Flyers trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Flyers trivia quiz covers the Philadelphia Flyers from Ed Snider's 1967 expansion franchise to Gritty: the Spectrum roof blowing off in year one, the Broad Street Bullies nickname, Bobby Clarke and Bernie Parent, Fred Shero's chalkboard, Kate Smith and God Bless America, the 1974 and 1975 Stanley Cups and the Fog Game, the win over the Red Army, the 35-game unbeaten streak, Pelle Lindbergh, Ron Hextall's goals, the Lindros trade and the Legion of Doom, the 2010 run and the retired numbers. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has followed the orange and black, a third need a closer memory of the seasons and the players, and the rest reward the fans who know the draft positions, the penalty-minute records and the names behind the nicknames. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the team, its players and its arenas before publishing, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Which team joined the NHL alongside the Flyers in 1967?
Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh Penguins: all six newcomers were placed in a West Division of their own, so an expansion team reached the Stanley Cup Final in each of the first three seasons.
Q 02Which earlier NHL team, playing only the 1930-31 season, was Philadelphia's first?
Quakers
The Quakers, the relocated Pittsburgh Pirates, went 4-36-4 in 1930-31 and suspended operations after that single season.
Q 03Who suggested the name "Flyers" to Ed Snider for his new Philadelphia team?
His sister Phyllis
His sister Phyllis suggested it at a Howard Johnson's on the New Jersey Turnpike, where the family had stopped on the drive home from a Broadway show.
Q 04What was Ed Snider's job when he got the idea for a Philadelphia hockey team?
Vice-president of the Eagles
Vice-president of the Eagles, he was leaving a basketball game in Boston when he saw fans lining up for tickets to watch the last-place Bruins.
Q 05Why did the 1967-68 Flyers end their home schedule on the road?
A storm blew part of the Spectrum roof off
A storm blew part of the Spectrum roof off, so the Flyers played seven 'home' games in New York, Toronto and Quebec City, and still won the West Division.
Q 06Who was the first captain in Flyers history?
Lou Angotti
Lou Angotti wore the C for one season only: he scored a career-best 49 points as the expansion Flyers won their division, and was traded that June.
Q 07Why did Bobby Clarke fall to the second round of the 1969 draft?
His diabetes
His diabetes kept teams away, though his junior coach had doctors put his all-clear in writing; a Flyers scout pushed until the club took him 17th overall.
Q 08In which Manitoba mining town was Bobby Clarke born?
Flin Flon
Flin Flon was home: weeks before his tryout with the hometown Bombers, he spent a summer's gas-station pay, and four days hitchhiking to Brandon and back, on his first new skates.
Q 09Whose recording of "God Bless America" did the Flyers begin playing before select games in December 1969?
Kate Smith
Kate Smith's recording was first played on December 11, 1969 at the suggestion of executive Lou Scheinfeld, and the Flyers' winning record with it became legendary.
Q 10Which newspaper's writers coined the nickname "Broad Street Bullies" in January 1973?
Philadelphia Bulletin
Philadelphia Bulletin writer Jack Chevalier wrote 'Bullies of Broad Street' after a brawling win in Atlanta, and copy editor Pete Cafone flipped the words to fit his headline.
Q 11Who was the first Flyer to score 50 goals in a season?
Rick MacLeish
Rick MacLeish scored 50 in 1972-73, the team's first winning season, and later netted the Cup-clinching goal in game six of the 1974 Final.
Q 12In 1973 Bobby Clarke became the first player from a post-1967 expansion team to win which NHL award?
Hart Memorial Trophy
The Hart Memorial Trophy went to a player the Flyers themselves had passed over with their first pick of the draft only four years earlier.
Q 13Which Flyers enforcer set the NHL single-season record of 472 penalty minutes in 1974-75?
Dave Schultz
Dave Schultz sat out 472 minutes that season, nearly eight full games, yet he had scored 20 goals for the Flyers the year before.
Q 21What was head coach Fred Shero's nickname?
The Fog
The Fog is often put down to his dreamy, distant manner, but it dates to a late-1940s minor-league game in St. Paul so fogged in that only Shero claimed he could see the puck.
Q 22Which team did Fred Shero leave the Flyers to coach and manage in 1978?
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers, the only NHL club he had played for, paid the Flyers a first-round pick that became Ken Linseman, and Shero's new team eliminated his old one the next spring.
Q 23Who coached the Flyers through an NHL-record 35-game unbeaten streak in 1979-80?
Pat Quinn
Pat Quinn, in his first full season behind the bench, steered the 25-0-10 run from mid-October to early January and took the Flyers on to the Stanley Cup Final.
Q 14Which goaltender broke Bernie Parent's record of 47 wins in a season by beating the Flyers?
Martin Brodeur
Martin Brodeur won his 48th of 2006-07 in Philadelphia, 3-2 over the Flyers, with Parent in the building to watch his 1973-74 record fall.
Q 15Which team did the Flyers beat in the 1974 Stanley Cup Final?
Boston Bruins
The Flyers beat the Boston Bruins in six; before the 1-0 clincher at the Spectrum, the singer of their lucky anthem appeared to perform it in person.
Q 16Which team did the Flyers defeat in the 1975 Stanley Cup Final?
Buffalo Sabres
The Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres in six; in a sweltering game three in Buffalo, Sabres forward Jim Lorentz swatted a low-flying bat out of the air with his stick.
Q 17Who scored the winner in game six of the 1975 Final as Parent posted a shutout?
Bob Kelly
Bob Kelly, 'the Hound', was sent out to start the third period for a spark and scored on a backhand 11 seconds in; the Flyers won 2-0 on the road.
Q 18Which Soviet team left the ice mid-period at the Spectrum in January 1976 after an Ed Van Impe hit?
Central Red Army
Central Red Army pulled its players off after Van Impe flattened Valeri Kharlamov, returned when told the team would forfeit its pay, and lost 4-1.
Q 19Which three players made up the LCB line that set an NHL record with 141 goals in 1975-76?
Leach, Clarke and Barber
Leach, Clarke and Barber scored 141 goals in 1975-76, 61 of them by Reggie Leach, Clarke's old junior linemate, whom the Flyers had traded for days after their first Cup.
Q 20Which team swept the Flyers in the 1976 Final, though Reggie Leach was still named playoff MVP?
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens swept them, but Leach had scored 19 playoff goals, five of them in a game he was nearly benched for until his captain talked the coach round.
Q 24Which trophy did Swedish goalie Pelle Lindbergh win after leading the NHL with 40 wins in 1984-85?
Vezina
The Vezina went to a goalie who had idolized Bernie Parent as a boy in Sweden; by 1985 Parent, a two-time winner himself, was his goaltending coach and mentor.
Q 25Which Flyers goaltender was the first in NHL history to shoot the puck into an empty net, in 1987?
Ron Hextall
Ron Hextall lifted a shot the length of the ice into an empty net; the only goalie credited with a goal before him had merely been the last Islander to touch a puck Colorado put in its own net.
Q 26Which future Hall of Famer was among the players the Flyers sent to Quebec for Eric Lindros in 1992?
Peter Forsberg
Peter Forsberg went to Quebec with Mike Ricci, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, a starting goaltender, a first-round pick and $15 million, then won two Stanley Cups after the club moved to Colorado.
Q 27Which team beat the Flyers in the 1987 Stanley Cup Final in seven games?
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers won game seven 3-1 at home for their third Cup in four years, after the Flyers had climbed back from 3-1 down in the series to force it.
Q 28Which two wingers flanked Eric Lindros on the Legion of Doom line?
John LeClair and Mikael Renberg
John LeClair and Mikael Renberg flanked Lindros from 1995; all three stood at least six foot two, and the line's size earned it the Legion of Doom name.
Q 29What was Eric Lindros's rookie-season Flyers line called, after its sweater numbers 8, 88 and 18?
Crazy Eights
The Crazy Eights put wingers wearing 8 and 18 beside the rookie in 88 across his first two seasons; in February 1995 the Flyers traded the No. 8 for three players.
Q 30Which junior team did Eric Lindros play for before Quebec drafted him first overall in 1991?
Oshawa Generals
Lindros starred for the Oshawa Generals, winning the 1990 Memorial Cup with them, then refused to report to the Nordiques after the 1991 draft, forcing the trade to Philadelphia.