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1983–84 Philadelphia Flyers season

NHL hockey team season

Field	Value
League	NHL
Season	1983–84
year	1983
Team	Philadelphia Flyers
Conference	Wales
ConferenceRank	5th
Division	Patrick
DivisionRank	3rd
Record	44–26–10
HomeRecord	25–10–5
RoadRecord	19–16–5
GoalsFor	350 (4th)
GoalsAgainst	290 (6th)
GeneralManager	Bob McCammon
Coach	Bob McCammon
Captain	Bobby Clarke
AltCaptain	None
Arena	Spectrum
Attendance	16,636
MinorLeague	Springfield Indians
Toledo Goaldiggers
GoalsLeader	Tim Kerr (54)
AssistsLeader	Brian Propp (53)
PointsLeader	Tim Kerr (93)
PIMLeader	Glen Cochrane (225)
PlusMinusLeader	Brian Propp (+49)
WinsLeader	Bob Froese (28)
GAALeader	Bob Froese (3.15)

Toledo Goaldiggers The 1983–84 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Flyers' 17th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). During the final season of the playing careers of Hockey Hall of Famers Bill Barber and Bobby Clarke, the Flyers lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Washington Capitals in a three-game sweep.

Off-season

Bob McCammon replaced Keith Allen as general manager in the off-season, and retained his position as head coach. McCammon had received an offer from the Pittsburgh Penguins to become their general manager.

Regular season

The youth of the team began to take over the reins from the old guard as Tim Kerr recorded his first 50-goal season. The team finished in third place.

The 1983–84 regular season saw Barber play his final games as he would officially announce his retirement following the next season after being unable to return from reconstructive knee surgery.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Playoffs

The Flyers were swept in three games for the second consecutive season, this time by the Washington Capitals.

After the loss, Flyers President Jay Snider informed Bob McCammon he could no longer continue as head coach. As GM, McCammon disagreed a change was needed, so he resigned from both positions altogether on April 25. On May 15, Bobby Clarke retired from playing and was named vice president and general manager of the team.

Schedule and results

Regular season

|- | 1 || October 6 || 4–1 || align="left"| Washington Capitals || Lindbergh || 1–0–0 || 2 || |- | 2 || October 8 || 6–3 || align="left"| @ Montreal Canadiens || Lindbergh || 2–0–0 || 4 || |- | 3 || October 9 || 7–1 || align="left"| Pittsburgh Penguins || Lindbergh || 3–0–0 || 6 || |- | 4 || October 13 || 4–3 || align="left"| Winnipeg Jets || Lindbergh || 4–0–0 || 8 || |- | 5 || October 15 || 5–1 || align="left"| @ New York Islanders || Froese || 5–0–0 || 10 || |- | 6 || October 16 || 4–5 || align="left"| @ New York Rangers || Froese || 5–1–0 || 10 || |- | 7 || October 20 || 3–3 OT || align="left"| Boston Bruins || Lindbergh || 5–1–1 || 11 || |- | 8 || October 22 || 1–4 || align="left"| @ Washington Capitals || Lindbergh || 5–2–1 || 11 || |- | 9 || October 23 || 8–5 || align="left"| Toronto Maple Leafs || Lindbergh || 6–2–1 || 13 || |- | 10 || October 25 || 4–2 || align="left"| @ Quebec Nordiques || Lindbergh || 7–2–1 || 15 || |- | 11 || October 27 || 4–3 || align="left"| Quebec Nordiques || Lindbergh || 8–2–1 || 17 || |- | 12 || October 29 || 3–1 || align="left"| @ Pittsburgh Penguins || Froese || 9–2–1 || 19 || |- | 13 || October 30 || 2–6 || align="left"| New York Islanders || Froese || 9–3–1 || 19 ||

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Playoffs

|- | 1 || April 4 || 2–4 || align="left"| @ Washington Capitals || Froese || Capitals lead 1–0 || |- | 2 || April 5 || 2–6 || align="left"| @ Washington Capitals || Froese || Capitals lead 2–0 || |- | 3 || April 7 || 1–5 || align="left"| Washington Capitals || Lindbergh || Capitals win 3–0 ||

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Player statistics

Scoring

Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Flyers only.*
- = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Flyers only.*

No.	Pos	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts
12	RW	79	54	39	93	30	29	3	0	0	0	−4	0
26	LW	79	39	53	92	49	37	3	0	1	1	−4	6
20	LW	73	31	45	76	31	47	3	0	0	0	−4	2
27	C	76	27	36	63	13	38	3	0	2	2	−1	7
16	C	73	17	43	60	23	70	3	2	1	3	−1	6
7	LW	63	22	32	54	4	36
2	D	71	19	34	53	30	44	3	0	0	0	0	2
14	C	79	19	32	51	4	101	3	0	0	0	0	22
23	LW	73	29	17	46	22	29	2	2	0	2	0	0
6	D	68	11	33	44	28	37	3	0	1	1	−4	0
3	D	78	7	28	35	23	63	3	0	0	0	−2	0
11	C	38	11	21	32	8	4	3	0	0	0	−2	7
9	D	66	4	27	31	19	27	2	0	0	0	−5	2
15	RW	70	16	12	28	10	93	3	0	0	0	0	15
10	D	71	0	24	24	19	76	1	0	0	0	−1	4
29	D	67	7	16	23	16	225
17	RW	52	9	13	22	1	105
21	C	29	8	14	22	4	4
19	RW	37	8	13	21	11	47	3	0	1	1	−2	4
8	D	77	3	14	17	24	83	3	1	1	2	−1	2
25	RW	14	2	6	8	1	14	3	0	0	0	−2	4
22	C	12	4	2	6	4	0
21	RW	19	1	5	6	4	98	2	0	0	0	0	12
28	D	23	1	4	5	4	71	3	0	0	0	−3	19
18	C	16	1	3	4	−7	10	1	0	0	0	−1	5
11	23	8	0	3	3	1	4
35	G	48	0	2	2		10	3	0	0	0		0
31	G	36	0	1	1		6	2	0	0	0		0
24	D	26	0	0	0	−1	74
15	D	1	0	0	0	0	0
5	D							1	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

No.	Player	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	GS	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI	GP	GS	W	L	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI
35	Bob Froese	48	46	28	13	7	1324	150	3.15	.887	2	2,855	3	2	0	2	76	11	4.37	.855	0	151
31	Pelle Lindbergh	36	34	16	13	3	963	135	4.07	.860	1	1,990	2	1	0	1	13	3	7.01	.769	0	26

Awards and records

Awards

Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref	League
(annual)	League
(in-season)	Team
NHL All-Rookie Team	Thomas Eriksson (Defense)
[NHL All-Star Game](36th-national-hockey-league-all-star-game) selection	Tim Kerr
Brian Propp
NHL Player of the Week	Pelle Lindbergh (October 11)
Tim Kerr (March 16)
Barry Ashbee Trophy	Miroslav Dvorak	url=http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/taward.cgi	title=Flyers History – Team Awards	work=P.Anson	accessdate=August 7, 2015}}
Class Guy Award	Dave Poulin

Records

Among the team records set during the 1983–84 season was the franchise high 350 goals scored on the season. On December 15 against the Washington Capitals, the Flyers scored three shorthanded goals during the game (tied for the team record) and three during the second period. On March 22 against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Flyers scored 13 goals, a franchise high which was tied seven months later. 1984 was the final year of Bobby Clarke's team record twelve consecutive years in the playoffs streak dating back to 1973.

The 1983–84 season was the final NHL seasons for three longtime Flyers — Clarke, Bill Barber, and Rick MacLeish — who hold several career records for the team. Clarke holds the regular season marks for seasons played (15, tied with Claude Giroux), games played (1,144), assists (852), and points (1,210). Clarke also holds the playoff marks for seasons played (13), games played (136), assists (77), and points (119). Barber holds the regular season mark for goals scored (420) and is tied for the playoff mark for goals scored (53) with MacLeish.

Milestones

Milestone	Player	Date	Ref	400th goal	First game
Bill Barber	October 9, 1983	url=http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/nhlmile.cgi	title=Flyers History – All-Time Milestone Award Winners	publisher=P.Anson	accessdate=August 15, 2015}}
Len Hachborn	November 20, 1983
Daryl Stanley	February 16, 1984
Paul Guay	March 6, 1984
Darryl Sittler	November 29, 1983
Darryl Sittler	January 8, 1984

Franchise firsts

Milestone	Player	Date	Ref	Overtime goal, regular season
Bobby Clarke	November 20, 1983

Transactions

The Flyers were involved in the following transactions from May 18, 1983, the day after the deciding game of the 1983 Stanley Cup Finals, through May 19, 1984, the day of the deciding game of the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals.

Trades

Date	Details	Ref
To Philadelphia Flyers	To [Chicago Black Hawks](1983-84-chicago-black-hawks-season)
To Philadelphia Flyers	To [Hartford Whalers](1983-84-hartford-whalers-season)	title=1977 NHL Amateur Draft Central -- Tom Gorence	url=http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1977/77035.html	publisher=Hockey Draft Central	accessdate=April 11, 2014}}
To Philadelphia Flyers	To [Pittsburgh Penguins](1983-84-pittsburgh-penguins-season)
To Philadelphia Flyers	To [St. Louis Blues](1983-84-st-louis-blues-season)
To Philadelphia Flyers	To [Detroit Red Wings](1983-84-detroit-red-wings-season)
To Philadelphia Flyers	To [Minnesota North Stars](1983-84-minnesota-north-stars-season)	url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/24/sports/sports-people-flyers-trade-holmgren.html	title = Sports People; Flyers Trade Holmgren	work = The New York Times	date = February 24, 1984	accessdate = December 13, 2014}}

Players acquired

Date		Player		Former team		Term		Via		Ref
Randy Holt
Rick MacLeish
Darren Jensen

Players lost

Date		Player		New team		Via		Ref	N/A
John Paddock	New Jersey Devils
Bob Hoffmeyer	New Jersey Devils
Gord Williams
Tom Gorence	Edmonton Oilers
Bobby Clarke

Signings

Date	Player	Term	Ref
Thomas Eriksson	multi-year	url = https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/16/sports/transactions-103780.html	title = Transactions	work = The New York Times	date = August 16, 1983	accessdate = December 13, 2014}}
Paul Holmgren	2-year
Todd Bergen	multi-year
Dave Poulin	multi-year	url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/05/09/The-Philadelphia-Flyers-have-signed-center-Dave-Poulin-and/7362452923200/	title=The Philadelphia Flyers have signed center Dave Poulin and...	agency=UPI	date=May 9, 1984	accessdate=August 5, 2015}}
Rick Tocchet	multi-year
Peter Zezel	multi-year

Draft picks

Philadelphia's picks at the 1983 NHL entry draft, which was held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, on June 8, 1983.

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team (league)
2	41	Peter Zezel	Center	Canada	Toronto Marlboros (OHL)
3	44	Derrick Smith	Left wing	Canada	Peterborough Petes (OHL)
4	81	Allen Bourbeau	Center	United States	Acton-Boxborough Regional High School (Massachusetts)
5	101	Jerome Carrier	Defense	Canada	Verdun Juniors (QMJHL)
6	121	Rick Tocchet	Right wing	Canada	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)
7	141	Bob Mormina	Forward	Canada	Longueuil Chevaliers (QMJHL)
8	161	Pelle Eklund	Center	Sweden	AIK (Elitserien)
9	181	Robbie Nichols	Right wing	Canada	Kitchener Rangers (OHL)
10	201	Bill McCormack	Center	United States	Westminster School (Conn.)
11	221	Brian Jopling	Goaltender	United States	Williston Northampton School (Massachusetts)
12	241	Harold Duvall	Left wing	United States	Belmont Hill School (Massachusetts)

Farm teams

The Flyers were affiliated with the Springfield Indians of the AHL and the Toledo Goaldiggers of the IHL.

Notes

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