Flett would never come close to numbers like this again for the remainder of his NHL career. It is important that we take time to acknowledge the finer moments from his NHL season :. Louis Blues. Clarke and Potvin would receive assists on the goal. With only 31 seconds left in the game, Flett scored the game-winner against Kings goalie Gary Edwards.
These would be his fourth and fifth goals of the season. Two of them he scored himself — the first Flyers goal of the game on a power play feed from Tom Bladon and Clarke. With less than six minutes to go in the opening period, Flett knotted the game at from Watson and Ed Van Impe.
With remaining in the game, he would set up yet another goal from Clarke to help keep Philadelphia permanently ahead. Flett and Clarke continued their work as an inspiring tandem for their team. After he opened the scoring in the game early in the second on a power play goal from MacLeish and Clarke, he would proceed to set up goals from Clarke and Gary Dornhoefer. Flett scored the Flyers third goal of the game in the first — they would have six in the opening period alone.
The tally would be his 30th goal of the season as he beat Dunc Wilson, with assists to Bladon and Barber. Oddly enough, it would be the only point that Flett would record in this wild affair. Louis Blues Once again scoring the first goal of the game, Flett picked up a shorthanded tally against goaltender Jacques Caron.
He would add assists on goals by MacLeish and Lonsberry. Flett would score the game-winning goal in the third period with assists to Bladon and Clarke. Though the Flyers would lose to the Detroit Red Wings by a score of , he would net his 34th and 35th goals of the season against goaltender Roy Edwards. Playing on the top line, Flett would also pick up two helpers as he set up linemate Bill Barber for a pair of goals of his own.
Fans climbed over the boards and mobbed the players and the Cup. It was exuberant mayhem at its finest. He dropped from 43 goals to just 17 in 64 games.
Flett appeared in all 17 playoff games that brought Philadelphia the victory but would go goalless. Flett would total three assists in the six-game series. Then that would be it. Flett would be traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs that May.
He had become expendable. Three days prior to Flett being shipped out, the Flyers had acquired bullet-shooting sniper Reggie Leach who would take his place on the top line with Clarke and Barber. Leach was seven years younger than Flett and would eventually score monstrous numbers for the Flyers.
Unfortunately, this was the downswing of his career. Flett played one season in Toronto, where he scored 15 goals and 25 assists in 77 games during the season — the Flyers would win their second Stanley Cup, and this time without him. When May came around he was on the move again. The Leafs had placed Flett on waivers where he would be picked up by Atlanta.
He would have a slight resurgence during his first season with the Flames as he would put forth 23 goals and 17 assists for 40 points in 78 games.
That year was the last time Flett would score 20 or more goals in an NHL season. TMLtalk pic. This was a change for the better and likely renewed his confidence a bit. Upon arriving in Edmonton, Flett would finish the year with 34 goals and 20 assists in only 48 games.
Come , the WHA held their final season in league history. Flett topped it off with 28 goals in 73 games, plus five goals in the Oilers 10 playoff games. He did so alongside a young man by the name of Wayne Gretzky. In 20 games that year he scored five goals and two assists. Recognizing the youth movement in Edmonton, Flett retired partway through the season and was offered a job with the team as a scout.
He had battled alcoholism for many years. Separately, he suffered from liver failure in May of which had been brought on by a gall bladder attack. He was just 55 years old. Bill Flett is a player who deserves to be remembered. But that is not enough. While he may belong to another era of the game it would be a travesty were he to be forgotten.
Few would ever have thought or known that he was one of the Flyers first two goal scorers in their long storied history. There is far more to Flett to honor than his one for the ages season. But if you can appreciate what he did during the NHL season, then you can appreciate the man himself.
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