1975 Stanley Cup Finals

1975 Stanley Cup Finals
1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Philadelphia Flyers 4 2 4 2 5 2 4 Buffalo Sabres 1 1 5 4 1 0 2
* overtime periods
Location(s)	Philadelphia (The Spectrum) (1,2,5) Buffalo (Buffalo Memorial Auditorium) (3,4,6)
Coaches	Philadelphia: Fred Shero Buffalo: Floyd Smith
Captains	Philadelphia: Bobby Clarke Buffalo: Jim Schoenfeld
Referees	Art Skov, Bruce Hood, Lloyd Gilmour, Wally Harris
Dates	May 15 – May 27
MVP	Bernie Parent (Philadelphia Flyers)
Series-winning goal	Bob Kelly (0:11, third,G6)
Networks	CBC (Canada-English), SRC (Canada-French), NBC (United States, Games 2, 5), WTAF (Philadelphia area, Games 3, 4, 6), WKBW (Buffalo area, Games 1, 3, 4, 6)
Stanley Cup Finals

The 1975 Stanley Cup Finals championship series was played by the Buffalo Sabres, making their first Finals appearance and the defending champion Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers would win the best-of-seven series four games to two. The Flyers were the last Stanley Cup champions to be comprised entirely of Canadian-born players.

Paths to the Final

Buffalo defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4–1 and the Montreal Canadiens 4–2 to advance to the finals. Philadelphia defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–0 and the New York Islanders 4–3 to make it to the finals.

The series

This was the first Finals to have two non-"Original Six" teams since the 1967 expansion.

Bernie Parent led the Flyers, allowing only 12 goals in the six games, capped with a shutout. He became the first player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy for two consecutive years. Since then, only Mario Lemieux has managed to duplicate this feat.

Date	Visitors	Score	Home	Score	Notes
Thu, May 15	Buffalo	1	Philadelphia	4
Sun, May 18	Buffalo	1	Philadelphia	2
Tue, May 20	Philadelphia	4	Buffalo	5	OT
Thu, May 22	Philadelphia	2	Buffalo	4
Sun, May 25	Buffalo	1	Philadelphia	5
Tue, May 27	Philadelphia	2	Buffalo	0

Philadelphia wins the series 4–2.

Philadelphia Flyers 1975 Stanley Cup champions

Players

  Centres

  Wingers

• 7 – Bill Barber 
• 8 – Dave Schultz 
• 9 – Bob Kelly 
• 11 – Don Saleski 
• 12 – Gary Dornhoefer  - A
• 17 – Simon Nolet 
• 18 – Ross Lonsberry 
• 21 – Bill Flett 
• 27 – Reggie Leach 

  Defencemen

• 2 – Ed Van Impe 
• 3 – Tom Bladon 
• 5 – Larry Goodenough 
• 6 – Andre Dupont 
• 14 – Joe Watson  - A
• 20 – Jimmy Watson 
• 25 – Ted Harris 

  Goaltenders

• 1 – Bernie Parent 
• 30 – Bobby Taylor 
• 35 – Wayne Stephenson 

Coaching and administrative staff

• Chairman/Owner: Ed Snider
• President: Joe Scott
• Vice Chairman: F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.
• Head Coach: Fred Shero
• Vice President/General Manager: Keith Allen
• Vice President: Lou Scheinfield
• Assistant Coach: Mike Nykoluk
• Director of Player Development: Marcel Pelletier
• Assistant Coach: Barry Ashbee,
• Trainer: Frank Lewis
• Assistant Trainer: Jim McKenzie
• Director of Public Relations: Joe Kadlec (left off Cup)
• Director of Public Relations John Blogan (left off Cup)

Stanley Cup engraving

• Edward "Ted" Harris won 5 Stanley Cups. He was engraved on the Stanley Cup with Montreal Canadiens as Edward Harris in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969. Harris was engraved as Ted Harris with Philadelphia Flyers in 1975.
• Joe Kadlec, John Blogan (Directors of Public Relations) were included on Philadelphia's Stanley Cup winning pictures in 1974, 1975, but their names do not appear on the Stanley Cup.
• Bobby Taylor only played 3 regular season games after coming out of retirement. His name was engraved on the Stanley Cup.
• Philadelphia Flyers was the last Stanley Cup winning team to have every player born in Canada.

See also

• List of Stanley Cup champions
• 1974–75 NHL season

References

• Diamond, Dan, ed. (2000). Total Stanley Cup. NHL.
• Podnieks, Andrew (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 1–55168–261. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)