{"id":159589,"date":"2025-09-21T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159589\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:28:07","slug":"former-philadelphia-flyers-g-hockey-hall-of-famer-bernie-parent-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159589\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Philadelphia Flyers G, Hockey Hall of Famer Bernie Parent dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> goaltender and Hockey Hall of Famer Bernie Parent has died at the age of 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Flyers confirmed the news in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Flyers and Ed Snider Youth Hockey &amp; Education are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Bernie Parent, a true legend, one of the most famous and beloved players, and most popular figures in the history of the organization and city of Philadelphia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Od28lVQHK8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/Od28lVQHK8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4o3VQZFO1t\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4o3VQZFO1t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlyers\/status\/1969792004700938246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parent, a native of Montreal, spent 14 seasons in the NHL from 1965-79. He made his debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a>, and also spent time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. He played one season in the World Hockey Association with the Philadelphia Blazers, in 1972-73.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He spent the majority of his time with the Flyers, where he won two Conn Smythe Trophies and two Stanley Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 608 career NHL games, Parents held a 2.55 goals-against average and a .915 save percentage. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984 &#8211; the first Flyers player to have that honour, and is one of six Flyers players to have their number retired.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Philadelphia Flyers goaltender and Hockey Hall of Famer Bernie Parent has died at the age of 80.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,76913,82],"class_list":["post-159589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-4","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}