Players worthy of Flyers HOF

[rwelenc27]

Tonight Eric Desjardins will deservedly be inducted into the Flyers Hall of Fame. What other Flyers do you think are deserving of the honor? Here is an article I wrote making the case for five Flyers in particular: http://alongtheboards.com/2015/02/5-players-flyers-hall-fame/

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[Beef Invictus]

Recchi is the guy I'll probably be campaigning for now that LeClair, Lindros, and Desjardins are taken care of.


Followed by Brian Boucher



Edit: And let's discuss how criminal it is that Timonen wasn't inducted years ago.

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

When the time comes:

Simon Gagne

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Jim Watson has been a curious omission for years.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Jim Watson has been a curious omission for years.

Wow, I've always just assumed he's in.

 

[Jtown]

brindamour

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Erik Gustafsson.

 

[orangecrush8]

Primeau doesn't beling there.

Recchi and BrindAmour will be there soon. Id have to think Timonen will be inducted eventually.

 

[King Forsberg]

Gagne
Recchi
Watson
Timonen
Grossmann.

 

[Appleyard]

Gagne
Recchi
Brind'Amour
Watson
Timonen
Giroux (if god forbid his career ended in the next year or two he has the numbers and impact already.)

Tocchet and Eklund feel like the cut off for forwards, Dupont feels like the cut off on D... guys who will never be in but pretty much everyone above them will be.

 

[OriginJM]

gagne & Brind'Amour

 

[BringBackHakstol]

I'm going to go with no one right now

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Both radio commentators commented. "Jim Watson would be the first (next) one for me," Tim Saunders and Steve Coates heartily agreed.

 

[BillDineen]

Berube obviously.



and Tocchet after that.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

No one.

When you start adding players like Gagne and Brind'Amour, even Jimmy Watson, it's not a team Hall of Fame, it's just a list of players who were really good for a few seasons.

Eventually, Giroux should probably make it, but that's it.

Of course, team HOF inductions are nights the Flyers can use to sell a few more tickets against dregs like Buffalo, so I'm sure non-iconic good players like Gagne will make it for that reason.

 

[GagneHanson12]

No one.

When you start adding players like Gagne and Brind'Amour, even Jimmy Watson, it's not a team Hall of Fame, it's just a list of players who were really good for a few seasons.

Eventually, Giroux should probably make it, but that's it.

Of course, team HOF inductions are nights the Flyers can use to sell a few more tickets against dregs like Buffalo, so I'm sure non-iconic good players like Gagne will make it for that reason.

Gags is 10th in points and games played as a flyer, 9th for goals, 6th for GWG, and 10th for PPG and SHG all time. I'd say those are Flyers HOF worthy numbers.

EDIT: I think I also saw on here that he is now 2nd for OT winners behind G as well. Checking to see if I can confirm that.

Actually, turns out Gags is still first for OT winners.

With his 5th OT winner in a Flyers jersey Giroux went joint 2nd all time on the Flyers list.

1st overall is Simon Gagne with 6.

Giroux, Lindros and LeClair are tied for 2nd with 5 apiece.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Rod and Recchi are certainly Flyers HOF caliber level players on their careers as a whole, but the fact they accomplished much more after they left taints it for me.

I wasn't alive for Watson, so not sure there.

Timonen, not sure. Close but he feels a cut below Desjardins in terms of his Flyers career.

Gagne is probably the closest in my eyes. But I'm leaning that he just does not feel like he's quite there.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Gagne had 2 40 goal seasons and 2 30 goal seasons for the Flyers. Two time 70 point player.

That's a good player, not a team HOF player. I put him in the Carter/Richards level.

 

[Hiesenberg]

It was a while between inductions wasn't it? Before Hextall got in? Somebody look into that, like it was CRAZY hard to be inducted into the Flyers HOF.

Now in the last few years it was Howe/Hextall/Lindros/Leclair/Desjardin.

Not I'm not saying none of them weren't deserved. They all were. But it felt like they kept it to a very high standard. Not sure Gagne and guys like that crack it.

Looking back, Recchi has 627 pts as a Flyer. Over a PPG for him. Probably would I guess.

 

[Hiesenberg]

Gagne had 2 40 goal seasons and 2 30 goal seasons for the Flyers. Two time 70 point player.

That's a good player, not a team HOF player. I put him in the Carter/Richards level.

Right, in comparison he has 535 pts in 691 games.

Recchi had 627 pts in 602 games.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

It was a while between inductions wasn't it? Before Hextall got in? Somebody look into that, like it was CRAZY hard to be inducted into the Flyers HOF.

Now in the last few years it was Howe/Hextall/Lindros/Leclair/Desjardin.

Not I'm not saying none of them weren't deserved. They all were. But it felt like they kept it to a very high standard. Not sure Gagne and guys like that crack it.

Looking back, Recchi has 627 pts as a Flyer. Over a PPG for him. Probably would I guess.

Bobby Clarke & Bernie Parent 1988
Keith Allen, Ed Snider, & Bill Barber 1989
Rick MacLeish & Fred Shero 1990
Barry Asbee & Gary Dornhoefer 1991
Gene Hart & Reegie Leech 1992
Joe Scott & Ed Van Impe 1993
Tim Kerr 1994
Joe Waston 1996
Brian Propp 1999
Mark Howe 2001
Dave Poulin 2004
Ron Hextall 2008
Dave Schultz 2009
Eric Lindros & John LeClair 2014
Eric Desjardins 2015

 

[Hiesenberg]

Bobby Clarke & Bernie Parent 1988
Keith Allen, Ed Snider, & Bill Barber 1989
Rick MacLeish & Fred Shero 1990
Barry Asbee & Gary Dornhoefer 1991
Gene Hart & Reegie Leech 1992
Joe Scott & Ed Van Impe 1993
Tim Kerr 1994
Joe Waston 1996
Brian Propp 1999
Mark Howe 2001
Dave Poulin 2004
Ron Hextall 2008
Dave Schultz 2009
Eric Lindros & John LeClair 2014
Eric Desjardins 2015

My mistake..Howe's # was retired recently.

That's what they do few and far between.