{"id":213470,"date":"2025-10-14T23:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213470\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:36:16","slug":"flyers-honour-late-bernie-parent-with-player-of-the-game-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213470\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers honour late Bernie Parent with Player of the Game mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/philadelphia-flyers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"philadelphia-flyers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> will have a new tradition after every win this season as they pay respect to an all-time franchise great. <\/p>\n<p>After every victory, the Flyers will hand out a Player of the Game mask in honour of the late, great Bernie Parent, who passed away at age 80 in September.<\/p>\n<p>The first player to don the replica of Parent&#8217;s iconic helmet from the 1970s was, aptly, goaltender Dan Vladar \u2014 who backstopped the Flyers to a 5-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Monday night. <\/p>\n<p>Parent, a two-time Stanley Cup and two-time Vezina Trophy winner with the Flyers, is widely considered one of the greatest goaltenders the NHL has ever seen. <\/p>\n<p>Over 13 years in the league, the Montreal, Que., native put up a 271-198-119 record in 608 games while earning a 2.55 goals-against average and .915 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>He spent most of his career in Philadelphia, spending parts of 10 seasons with the team and establishing himself as a franchise legend with the iconic &#8216;Broad Street Bullies&#8217; teams of the 70s. <\/p>\n<p>His No. 1 jersey was retired by the Flyers in 1979 when he hung up his skates, and he became the first Flyer to be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers will have a new tradition after every win this season as they pay respect to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-213470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213470","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=213470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}