When Ted and Edna Perry adopted a small infant girl in 1967, they probably did not guess that she would grow up to be one of the most successful country artists of all time. Her singing talent was noticed early on, and she was up on stage by the time she was 7 years old. At 19, she quit her college course to follow her dreams in Nashville. She became a secretary at a music publishing firm and spent some of her extra time being a backup singer for live performances at the famous Bluebird Café. That’s where a Warner Brothers executive found and signed her to their label. From there, the music world was her’s. Starting out with a pretty traditional sound, her music eventually went to a more pop style which led her to be one of the biggest cross-over artists around. Over the course of her career, she married and had 3 daughters with fellow soon-to-be-inductee Tim McGraw. They became a power couple in the genre for a few years, allowing them to head out on majorly successful tours together. As their children grew, Faith made the decision to step away from the business to look after them. She has tried to come back to the industry since then but has not gotten back to the same level she was at when she left. But that does not take away from her success, awards, and broken records that she achieved over the course of her career.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021-22 revision of our top 50 Philadelphia Flyers.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NHL. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note, that this is our first revision in in the last three years, and it has generated two new entries, one of which, should have been listed before.  

As always, we present our top five immediately, although there are no changes from our last list:

1. Bobby Clarke

2. Bernie Parent

3. Bill Barber

4. Eric Lindros

5. Mark Howe

You can find the entire list here.

Jakub Voracek moves up from #23 to #18.

Former Defenseman, Kimmo Timonen, was incorrectly left off our inaugural list, enters at #27.

Sean Couturier climbs from #42 to #33.

Shayne Gotlisbehere, who is now with Arizona, debuts at #50.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

Kimmo Timonen began his career with the Nashville Predators where he was a two-time All-Star.  In 2007, Timonen and Scott Hartnell were traded to Philadelphia for a First Round Pick, who would never make it to NHL.  It is easy to see who won this trade.

Timonen went to his third All-Star Game in his first year as a Flyer, and did so again in 2012.  Timonen had three 40-Point seasons with Philly, with another three cracking the 30-Point threshold.  While he never finished in the top ten in Norris voting as a Flyer, he did receive votes in three of his years, and he was considered one of the top Defensemen for the Flyers during his tenure, which ended in 2014.

Timonen scored 270 Points of his 571 career Points in Philadelphia.

Being born in Georgia to a schoolteacher and a banker doesn’t help you get a foot in the door to the music business, but Trisha knew from a young age that she wanted to pursue music. After spending a childhood singing everywhere she could, she eventually moved to Nashville and earned an internship at a record label. At the label, Trisha began as a background singer on the demos of new artists, and one of those artists ended up being Garth Brooks (2012 Hall Of Fame inductee). He told her he would help her if he ever made it big. When her debut single came along in 1991, he offered her a spot as his opening act. (In 2005, he also became her husband). From there, she was able to begin her highly respected career, which included winning 3 Grammy awards, 3 Academy of Country Music Awards, and 3 Country Music Association awards. She also continued to get critical acclaim throughout her years of popularity, for both her incredible vocal power as well as the quality of her song choices. Her debut album also became the first debut by a female country singer to sell over one million copies. Although her radio career faded out after about 10 years, she has continued to put out acclaimed albums, has a cooking television show (for which she won an Emmy award), and has put out a few New York Times best-selling cookbooks. Could a slot in the Hall Of Fame be in her future too?