"The Streak" and new beginnings
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"The Streak" and new beginnings
Bob McCammon, who had just coachedNFL jersey the Flyers' first year AHL MaineNFL jerseys Mariners farm club to a Calder Cup title, replaced Shero behind the bench. After a slow start in 1978–79NFL apparel the Flyers switched McCammoncheap nfl jerseys with Pat Quinn, Shero's previous assistant coach, who had replaced McCammon with the Mariners. Adding to thenfl merchandise problems, Bernie Parent suffered a career-ending eye injury. The Flyers rallied under Quinn and finished innfl merchandise second placesteelers jerseys. Matched-up againstsaints jersey the Vancouver Canucks in the preliminary round, the Flyers won the series in three games. Thefootball jersey Flyers' season came to an endfootball jerseys against Fred Shero's nhl jerseyRangers in a five-game quarterfinal loss.
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The Flyers began the 1979–80nhl jerseys season with a somewhat controversial movenhl team jersey by naming Clarkehockey jersey a playing assistantnhl hockey jersey coach and giving the captaincy to Mel Bridgman. While Clarke was against this initially, he acceptedjersey devils his new role. The Flyers went undefeated for a North American professional sports record 35 straight games (25–0–10), before losing 7–1 at Minnesota, a record that still stands to this day. In doing so, the Flyers wrapped up the Patrick Division title with 14 games topenguins jersey spare and the No.1 overall seed in the blackhawks jerseyplayoffs. Their regular-season success continued into the playoffs, as the Flyers swept a young Wayne Gretzkymlb jersey and his Edmonton Oilersmlb jerseys in the first round, then wentbaseball jersey on to get revengebaseball jerseys against Fred Shero andmlb baseball jersey his Rangers phillies jerseyby beating them in five before disposing of Minnesota in five to lock up a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals. Facing the Islanders for the Cup, the Flyers ultimately lost in six games on Bob Nystrom's overtime Cup-winning goal. The end result of the series was marred by controversy, as the Islanders were offside on the play that resulted in their second goal, but the cardinals jerseycall was not made. Linesman Leon Stickle admitted after the game that he had blown the call.
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