1975 Stanley Cup Finals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location(s) |
Philadelphia (Spectrum) (1,2,5) Buffalo (Buffalo Memorial Auditorium) (3,4,6) |
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Coaches | Philadelphia: Fred Shero Buffalo: Floyd Smith |
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Captains | Philadelphia: Bobby Clarke Buffalo: Jim Schoenfeld |
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Referees |
Art Skov (1,5) Bruce Hood (2,6) Lloyd Gilmour (3) Wally Harris (4) |
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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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | NBC: Tim Ryan, Ted Lindsay, Brian McFarlane, Phil Esposito | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1975 Stanley Cup Final championship series was played by the Buffalo Sabres and the defending champion Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers would win the best-of-seven series four games to two. This was the first Final to have two non-"Original Six" teams since the 1967 expansion, and also the first contested by any team that had joined the league after 1967 (the Sabres were part of the 1970 expansion). The 1975 Flyers are the last Stanley Cup championship team to be composed solely of Canadian-born players.
This was the only Final between 1965 and 1979 not to feature either the Boston Bruins or the Montreal Canadiens.
Buffalo defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4–1 and the Montreal Canadiens 4–2 to advance to the final.
Philadelphia defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–0 and the New York Islanders 4–3 to make it to the final.
Bernie Parent was the outgunned Flyers' best player, 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 (with the Pittsburgh Penguins when they won the Stanley Cup in 1991 and 1992) has managed to duplicate this feat. In the deciding game six played in Buffalo, the Sabres' offensive big guns rained shot after shot on Parent in an all-out effort to turn the series around. but Parent remained perfect. He stopped French Connection linemates Gilbert Perreault and Rick Martin on a 2–1 late in period two that had Flyers legendary broadcaster Gene Hart screaming into his microphone: