1991–92 Philadelphia Flyers season

The 1991–92 Philadelphia Flyers season was the team's 25th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers hosted the 43rd NHL All-Star Game. They missed the Stanley Cup playoffs for the third consecutive season.

1991–92 Philadelphia Flyers
Division	6th Patrick
Conference	8th Wales
1991–92 record	32–37–11
Home record	22–11–7
Road record	10–26–4
Goals for	252 (17th)
Goals against	273 (9th)
Team information
President	Jay Snider
General manager	Russ Farwell
Coach	Paul Holmgren (fired)[lower-alpha 1] Bill Dineen[lower-alpha 1]
Captain	Rick Tocchet (Oct.–Feb.)[lower-alpha 2] Vacant (Feb.–Apr.)
Alternate captains	Terry Carkner Kevin Dineen
Arena	Spectrum
Average attendance	17,140[2]
Minor league affiliate(s)	Hershey Bears
Team leaders
Goals	Rod Brind'Amour (33)
Assists	Rod Brind'Amour (44)
Points	Rod Brind'Amour (77)
Penalty minutes	Terry Carkner (195)
Plus/minus	Mark Howe (+18)
Wins	Ron Hextall (16)
Goals against average	Dominic Roussel (2.60)

Regular season

Ron Hextall at the 1992 Flyers Wives Carnival.

Prior to the 1991–92 season, the Flyers acquired Rod Brind'Amour and Dan Quinn from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Murray Baron and Flyers captain Ron Sutter. Brind'Amour led the Flyers in goals (33), assists (44) and points (77) in his first season with the club. Rick Tocchet was named team captain to replace Sutter.[3] As the Flyers continued to flounder, Paul Holmgren was fired in December and replaced by Bill Dineen, father of Flyer Kevin Dineen.[1] On February 19, the Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins made a major five-player deal which featured Tocchet — who never grew comfortably into the role of captain — heading to Pittsburgh and Mark Recchi coming to Philadelphia. Recchi recorded 27 points in his first 22 games as a Flyer, but the team missed the playoffs for the third consecutive year, due in large part to an awful road record (10–26–4).

With Brind'Amour and Quinn in the fold to create more offense, plus a healthy Hextall in net, the Flyers still got off to an 0–3–1 start. After a 4–2 win over New Jersey, the club awakened, trading roughly two wins for every loss and climbing to 8–8–1 following back-to-back 3–1 wins over the Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens in mid-November.

From there, injuries and poor play from regulars began to doom Paul Holmgren's tenure behind the bench. An eight-game winless streak (0–7–1) effectively put an end to his tenure. Murray Craven was traded to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for the younger Dineen during the run, which included blow-out home losses to the Whalers (7–3 on November 27) and the Penguins (9–3 on November 29). In both home games, the Spectrum crowd loudly chanted "Paul Must Go" during multiple stoppages in play. Flyers fans received their wish on December 4, with the Flyers at 8–14–2, as Bill Dineen took the helm.[1]

The team began his tenure at 4–1–5, but still slipped into last place by late January. A 7–1–2 string brought the club within striking distance of a playoff spot by mid-February, but an inability to win on the road within the division sabotaged their comeback effort. After the three-way deal between the Flyers, Penguins and Kings was completed, the club had an infusion of scoring with Recchi, but it was too late to make up ground in the standings.

A five-game win streak from March 12–22 yielded a 7–6 comeback win over the Capitals in Landover, in which the Flyers scored four times in the third period - but the momentum didn't last as a 2–5–0 finish, compounded by a 12-day National Hockey League Players' Association strike, sent the club into the Patrick Division basement for the second time in three years.

The Flyers struggled on the power play in the regular season, finishing 22nd in power play percentage with 16.55% (68 for 411).[4]

Season standings

Patrick Division[5]

		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	P - New York Rangers	80	50	25	5	321	246	105
2	Washington Capitals	80	45	27	8	330	257	98
3	Pittsburgh Penguins	80	39	32	9	343	308	87
4	New Jersey Devils	80	38	31	11	289	259	87
5	New York Islanders	80	34	35	11	291	299	79
6	Philadelphia Flyers	80	32	37	11	252	273	75

P - Clinched Presidents Trophy

Wales Conference[6]

R		Div	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	p – New York Rangers	PAT	80	50	25	5	321	246	105
2	Washington Capitals	PAT	80	45	27	8	330	257	98
3	Montreal Canadiens	ADM	80	41	28	11	267	207	93
4	Pittsburgh Penguins	PAT	80	39	32	9	343	308	87
5	New Jersey Devils	PAT	80	38	31	11	289	259	87
6	Boston Bruins	ADM	80	36	32	12	270	275	84
7	New York Islanders	PAT	80	34	35	11	291	299	79
8	Philadelphia Flyers	PAT	80	32	37	11	252	273	75
9	Buffalo Sabres	ADM	80	31	37	12	289	299	74
10	Hartford Whalers	ADM	80	26	41	13	247	283	65
11	Quebec Nordiques	ADM	80	20	48	12	255	318	52

Divisions: ADM – Adams, PAT – Patrick

p – Clinched Presidents' Trophy
bold – Qualified for playoffs

Schedule and results

Regular season

1991–92 regular season
October: 4–5–1, 9 Points (Home: 3–2–0; Road: 1–3–1)
November: 4–8–1, 9 Points (Home: 2–4–1; Road: 2–4–0)
December: 4–4–5, 13 Points (Home: 2–1–3; Road: 2–3–2)
January: 4–7–2, 10 Points (Home: 4–1–2; Road: 0–6–0)
February: 7–5–2, 16 Points (Home: 5–0–1; Road: 2–5–1)
March: 8–6–0, 16 Points (Home: 5–2–0; Road: 3–4–0)
April: 1–2–0, 2 Points (Home: 1–1–0; Road: 0–1–0)
Legend:   Win (2 points)   Loss (0 points)   Tie (1 point)

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.

				Regular season
No.	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
17	Rod Brind'Amour	21	C	80	33	44	77	−3	100
20	Kevin Dineen	28	RW	64	26	30	56	1	130
18	Mike Ricci	20	C	78	20	36	56	−10	93
19, 28	Steve Duchesne	26	D	78	18	38	56	−7	86
14	Mark Pederson	24	LW	58	15	25	40	14	22
10, 14	Dan Quinn	26	C	67	11	26	37	−13	26
5	Kerry Huffman	24	D	60	14	18	32	1	41
23	Andrei Lomakin	27	RW	57	14	16	30	−6	26
22	Rick Tocchet	27	RW	42	13	16	29	3	102
8	Mark Recchi	23	RW	22	10	17	27	−5	18
2	Mark Howe	36	D	42	7	18	25	18	18
9	Pelle Eklund	28	LW	51	7	16	23	0	4
40	Claude Boivin	21	LW	58	5	13	18	−2	187
3	Garry Galley	28	D	39	3	15	18	1	34
25	Keith Acton	33	C	50	7	10	17	−4	98
47	Brad Jones	26	LW	48	7	10	17	−2	44
29	Terry Carkner	25	D	73	4	12	16	−14	195
19	Brian Benning	25	D	22	2	12	14	−9	35
37	Mark Freer	23	LW	50	6	7	13	−1	18
28	Kjell Samuelsson	33	D	54	4	9	13	1	76
46	Al Conroy	26	C	31	2	9	11	1	74
3	Gord Murphy	24	D	31	2	8	10	−4	33
44	Corey Foster	22	D	25	3	4	7	−14	20
21, 24	Dave Brown	29	RW	70	4	2	6	−11	81
32	Murray Craven	27	C	12	3	3	6	2	8
15	Dale Kushner	25	LW	19	3	2	5	−5	18
15	Steve Kasper	30	C	16	3	2	5	−3	10
6	Dan Kordic	20	D	46	1	3	4	1	126
21	Tony Horacek	24	LW	34	1	3	4	−9	51
11	Jiri Latal	24	D	10	1	2	3	1	4
27	Ron Hextall	27	G	45	0	3	3	N/A	35
14	Kimbi Daniels	20	C	25	1	1	2	−4	4
35	Ken Wregget	27	G	23	0	2	2	N/A	0
24	Pat Murray	22	LW	9	1	0	1	3	0
36	Wes Walz	21	C	2	1	0	1	1	0
33	Dominic Roussel	21	G	17	0	1	1	N/A	2
26	Martin Hostak	24	C	5	0	1	1	−1	2
42	Moe Mantha	31	D	5	0	0	0	0	2
24	Rod Dallman	25	LW	2	0	0	0	0	5
14	Chris Jensen	28	RW	2	0	0	0	−1	0
66	Yanick Dupre	19	LW	1	0	0	0	0	0
48	Reid Simpson	22	LW	1	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

• = 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.

			Regular season
No.	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI
27	Ron Hextall	27	45	43	16	21	6	1294	151	3.40	.883	3	2,667:43
35	Ken Wregget	27	23	23	9	8	3	557	75	3.57	.865	0	1,259:15
33	Dominic Roussel	21	17	14	7	8	2	437	40	2.60	.908	1	922:18

Awards and records

Awards

Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref
League (annual)	NHL Second All-Star Team	Mark Recchi (Right wing)	[7]
League (in-season)	NHL All-Star Game selection	Rod Brind'Amour	[8]
Team	Barry Ashbee Trophy	Steve Duchesne	[9]
	Bobby Clarke Trophy	Rod Brind'Amour	[9]
	Class Guy Award	Kevin Dineen	[9]

Team

Franchise team records set during the 1991–92 season

Record	Type	Total	Date(s)	Refs
Games tied	Streak	4[lower-alpha 3]	12/8/1991 – 12/15/1991	[10]

Transactions

The Flyers were involved in the following transactions from May 26, 1991, the day after the deciding game of the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 1, 1992, the day of the deciding game of the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals.[11]

Trades

Date	Details		Ref
May 30, 1991	To Philadelphia Flyers Dave Brown Corey Foster rights to Jari Kurri	To Edmonton Oilers Craig Berube Craig Fisher Scott Mellanby	[12]
May 30, 1991	To Philadelphia Flyers Steve Duchesne Steve Kasper 4th-round pick in 1991	To Los Angeles Kings Jeff Chychrun rights to Jari Kurri	[12]
July 29, 1991	To Philadelphia Flyers Flyers choice of a 1992 or 1993 draft pick[lower-alpha 4]	To Toronto Maple Leafs rights to Mike Bullard	[13]
August 5, 1991	To Philadelphia Flyers future considerations	To New York Rangers Shaun Sabol	[14]
August 8, 1991	To Philadelphia Flyers future considerations	To New York Rangers Don Biggs	[15]
September 22, 1991	To Philadelphia Flyers Rod Brind'Amour Dan Quinn	To St. Louis Blues Murray Baron Ron Sutter	[16]
November 13, 1991	To Philadelphia Flyers Kevin Dineen	To Hartford Whalers Murray Craven 4th-round pick in 1992	[17]
January 2, 1992	To Philadelphia Flyers Garry Galley Wes Walz 3rd-round pick in 1993	To Boston Bruins Brian Dobbin Gord Murphy 3rd-round pick in 1992 4th round pick in 1993	[18]
February 7, 1992	To Philadelphia Flyers Ryan McGill	To Chicago Blackhawks Tony Horacek	[19]
February 19, 1992	To Philadelphia Flyers Brian Benning Mark Recchi Los Angeles' 1st-round pick in 1992	To Pittsburgh Penguins Kjell Samuelsson Rick Tocchet Ken Wregget conditional 3rd-round pick in 1993[lower-alpha 5]	[20]
February 27, 1992	To Philadelphia Flyers Moe Mantha	To Winnipeg Jets future considerations	[21]

Free agency

The following players were signed by the Flyers via free agency.

Date	Player	Previous team (league)	Term	Ref
August 6, 1991	Brad Jones	Los Angeles Kings	2-year	[22]
August 21, 1991	Al Conroy	Detroit Red Wings		[23]

Internal

The following players were either re-signed by the Flyers or, in the case of the team's selections in the NHL Entry Draft, signed to contracts.

Date	Player	Term	Ref
August 7, 1991	Jamie Cooke (DP)		[24]
August 7, 1991	Kimbi Daniels (DP)		[24]
September 25, 1991	Yanick Dupre (DP)		[25]
October 3, 1991	Andrei Lomakin (DP)		[26]
November 1991	Ken Wregget	1 year[lower-alpha 6]	[17]

NHL Expansion Draft

The 1991 NHL Expansion Draft was held on May 30, 1991.[12][27] It featured one expansion team, the San Jose Sharks, and one current NHL team, the Minnesota North Stars, selecting players from the other 20 NHL teams.[27] Each NHL team were allowed to protect 16 skaters and 2 goaltenders and all first and second-year players were exempt.[27] The two selecting teams were provided a list of players who the two teams could select.[27] Each NHL team could lose only one player.[27]

Philadelphia Flyers protection lists at the 1991 NHL Expansion Draft

Status	Players
Unprotected[27]	Don Biggs (free agent), Mike Bullard (free agent), Rod Dallman, Brian Dobbin, David Fenyves, Mark Freer, Mark Howe, Willie Huber (free agent), Chris Jensen, Tim Kerr, Dale Kushner, Normand Lacombe, Pete Peeters, Shaun Sabol, Glen Seabrooke
Selections[28]	San Jose Sharks selected Tim Kerr 9th overall

Waivers

The Flyers were involved in the following waivers transactions.

Date	Player	Team	Ref
October 26, 1991	Derrick Smith	to Minnesota North Stars	[29]

Departures

The following players left the team via free agency, release, or retirement. Players who were under contract and left the team during the season are marked with an asterisk (*).

Date	Player	New team (league)	Via	Ref
August 12, 1991	Scott Sandelin	Minnesota North Stars	Free agency	[30]
September 26, 1991	Pete Peeters	—[lower-alpha 7]	Buyout	[25]
October 3, 1991	Normand Lacombe	Canadian National Team[lower-alpha 8]	Buyout	[33]
February 3, 1992	Jiri Latal*	Vålerenga Ishockey (Norway)[lower-alpha 9]	Buyout	[35]

Draft picks

NHL Entry Draft

Philadelphia's picks at the 1991 NHL Entry Draft, which was held at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, on June 22, 1991.[36] The Flyers traded their second-round pick, 28th overall, to the Montreal Canadiens for Mark Pederson on March 5, 1991.[37] They also traded their fourth-round pick, 72nd overall, and Jay Wells to the Buffalo Sabres for Kevin Maguire and the Sabres' 1990 second-round pick on March 5, 1990, and their eight-round pick, 160th overall, and Kevin Maguire to the Toronto Maple Leafs for the Maple Leafs' 1990 third-round pick on June 16, 1990.[37]

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team (league)	Notes
1	6	Peter Forsberg	Center	Sweden	Modo Hockey (Elitserien)
3	50	Yanick Dupre	Left wing	Canada	Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL)
4	86	Aris Brimanis	Defense	United States	Bowling Green State University (CCHA)	[lower-alpha 10]
5	94	Yanick Degrace	Goaltender	Canada	Trois-Rivières Draveurs (QMJHL)
6	116	Clayton Norris	Right wing	Canada	Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL)
6	122	Dmitri Yushkevich	Defense	Soviet Union	Torpedo Yaroslavl (Soviet Union)	[lower-alpha 11]
7	138	Andrei Lomakin	Left wing	Soviet Union	Dynamo Moscow (Soviet Union)
9	182	Jim Bode	Left wing	United States	Robbinsdale Armstrong High School (USHS-MN)
10	204	Josh Bartell	Defense	United States	Rome Free Academy (USHS-NY)
11	226	Neil Little	Goaltender	Canada	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (ECAC)
12	248	John Parco	Center	Canada	Belleville Bulls (OHL)

NHL Supplemental Draft

Philadelphia's picks at the 1991 NHL Supplemental Draft.[38][39]

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team (league)
1	6	Angelo Libertucci	Goaltender	Canada	Bowling Green State University (CCHA)
2	12	Brendan Locke	Right wing	United States	Merrimack College (Hockey East)

Farm teams

The Flyers were affiliated with the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League.[40][41]

Notes

1. Holmgren was fired on December 4 and replaced by Dineen.[1]
2. Tocchet was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on February 19. No new captain was named for the remainder of the season and the entirety of the next.
3. Tied mark set during the 1968–69 season.
4. The Flyers had the choice of receiving Toronto's 1992 fourth-round pick or Toronto's 1993 third-round pick.[13] The Flyers chose the 1993 third-round pick.
5. Condition met.
6. Option for second year
7. Peeters retired.[31]
8. Lacombe briefly played for the Canadian national team before retiring.[32]
9. Latal played the remainder of the 1991–92 season for Valerenga.[34]
10. The Flyers traded Jeff Chychrun and the rights to Jari Kurri to the Los Angeles Kings for Steve Duchesne, Steve Kasper and the Kings' fourth-round pick, 86th overall, on May 30, 1991.[37]
11. The Flyers traded Dave Brown to the Edmonton Oilers for Keith Acton and the Oilers' sixth-round pick, 122nd overall, on February 7, 1989.[37]

References

General

• hockeyDB.com: Roster and player statistics · Results and Schedule
• hockey-reference.com: Roster and Statistics · Schedule and Results
• Flyers History: Season Overview · Game Scores & Results

Specific

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External links

• Bill Meltzer (March 6, 2008). "Great Moments: Dineen Father-Son Team Lifts Flyers". Philadelphia Flyers. Retrieved December 2, 2014.