Legends of Hockey – Bobby Clarke
March10
Robert Earle Clarke, OC (born August 13, 1949 in Flin Flon, Manitoba), better known as Bobby Clarke, is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Philadelphia Flyers. During his 15 season playing career, he led the Flyers to two Stanley Cups and was awarded the Hart Trophy as league MVP three times. A 1987 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Clarke was rated number 23 on The Hockey News’ list of The Top 100 NHL Players of All-Time in 1998.
Whatever, tool. Apparently they couldn’t scrape even one up to say something good about the cocksucker.
@HelmutHedd Again, learn what you’re talking about. I live just outside of Philly, I’ve seen all these guys on T.V. numerous times and every time they’re asked about Clarke they have nothing but great things to say about him.
Odd that Barber didn’t rave about Clarke in this interview… nor Sittler, who was a teammate for a while. Apparently. MacLeish or Leach couldn’t be found to say nice stuff about him either … I’ve forgotten more about hockey than you’ll ever know, cocksucker.
And got massacred in 4 straight by the Habs. Fuckin’ tard.
One of the dirtiest player in the NHL history.
@HelmutHedd
Everybody that played with Clarke raves about him and calls him one of the, if not the best leaders to ever play. So seriously dude, learn about what you’re talking about before you act like a little weasel.
@HelmutHedd
Thats why they went 51-13-16 and made it to the Cup Finals again when Parent only played 11 games during the 75-76 season right? Fuckin dope.
Surprised Eric Lindros wasn’t interviewed to sing Bobby’s praises. (LOL)
I heard Guy Lafleur call them a goon squad with a goalie. Take Bernie Parent off that team and you had a .500 team.
Not too many teammates of Clarke’s former teammates on this. A lot of reporters. Why would that be? Biggest asshole in hockey. Dirtiest player in league history.
My apologies for the confusion.
Thank you for the correction.
@mikeLOUD Bobby Clarke never had a +124 rating in his career, you’re thinking of Bobby Orr when he got +128 in 1974
How about the 1970-71 season where Clarke was +124.
Just a glimpse into how great a player this man was.
I can’t believe how good Bobby Clarke was
as you will be a pens fan until death as will i be a flyers fan. it is good to find a true fan of the pens. cause most of the ones i run into are the bandwagon ones and only have started to like within the past 3-4 years and they are really arrogant.
same here that we can end on an agreement. adios
@irishman89
True too. The death and loss of Michel Briere is also another reason why we didn’t have good players like you guys did (Clarke, Parent, Barber, etc.). Still Philly does have a STRONG fanbase.
I’m glad we can end this on the right foot. But I will ALWAYS be a Pittsburgh Penguins fan ’til death.
well another partial reason is that you guys had low fan attendance and not making money.
no that was the assistant coach
It was due to bankruptcy. In ‘75, due to the fact that creditors demanded paybacks of debt. Our ownership had to padlock the office, however if it wasn’t for the DeBartelow Family, and their patriarch, Edward J. DeBartelow, we would’ve lost the hockey team.
1998-99 – After the piss-poor ownership of Howard Baldwin and Morris Belzberg, Baldwin asked the Pittsburgh team to defer their salaries. Combined with other pressures, we had to declare bankruptcy AGAIN. And Mario saved us, again.
then how come pittsburgh almost lost the franchise? if you give me a legit answer and some kind of fact verifying your statement i will leave you alone forever.
Those two weren’t the only players that caused more Pens fans to come to the Igloo. True your fanbase is one of the biggest in the NHL, and so is Pittsburgh’s. Think about all the other Pens players other than Lemieux, such as Jaromir Jagr, Kevin Stevens, Tom Barrasso, Joe Mullen, and Larry Murphy.
this is between pitt and philly, not chicago. our city has one of the best fan bases in all of sports. i am just saying we have always have had fans come to the flyers game. but in pitts case people came out to support the team after you got crosby and malkin,
You started the conversation with attendance. And I was COMPARING your attendance with Chicago’s! Well yeah, Mario saved the franchise TWICE. No OTHER player in sports history could do what Mario EVER did, which was to take ownership of a sports team. Don’t forget that we had one of the best GMs of all time, Craig Patrick as well.
what do the blackhawks and this conversation? i didnt mean when he was playing you dumbass. i mean when mario became owner and save your franchise from moving. are you freakin retarded.
Bullshit, eh? We STILL had a fairly good attendance record in the 60s. Even with Mario, he still won two Art Ross Trophies (88 AND 89). If you guys didn’t beat us up in 89, we would’ve kicked your ass. Even when we had Rob Brown AND Zarly Zalapski, we were a better team than you were. To my best knowledge we were the SIXTH best team that year. Still, Pittsburgh may not have a GREAT attendance, but like I said, you want to see PERFECT attendance, the Blackhawks had the best attendance in 2009.