The
Philadelphia Flyers are an American
ice hockey team based in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. They compete in the
National Hockey League (NHL)
Eastern Conference's Atlantic Division. Since their inaugural season in 1967, the team has played its home games on
Broad Street in South Philadelphia, first at the
Spectrum from 1967 to 1996 and currently at the
Wells Fargo Center since 1996. In 43 completed seasons, the team has won the
Stanley Cup as NHL champions twice and has qualified for the
playoffs thirty-five times. They have played more than 400 playoff games, winning 209. As of the end of the season, Philadelphia has won more than 1,700 regular season games, the 7th-highest victory total among NHL teams and the most among non-
Original Six teams.
The Flyers were founded in
1967 and won consecutive Stanley Cup championships in
1974 and
1975, the first expansion team to do so. The team has since lost in six return trips to the Stanley Cup Finals in
1976,
1980,
1985,
1987,
1997 and
2010. The Flyers have never won the
Presidents' Trophy, although they led the NHL in regular-season
points in , and , before the league began awarding the trophy. The Flyers last qualified for the playoffs in ; their most recent playoff series victory was the
2011 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals.
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