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Traded midway through the 1976/77 season from the Vancouver Canucks, Bob Dailey may have missed the Stanley Cup days, but he was still a contributor on some very good Flyers teams.  The one-time tallest player in hockey (6’5”) would have two straight 30 Assist seasons, the first of which saw the blueliner put the puck in the net for a career high 21, which along with his 57 Points would set (since broken) records for a Flyers Defenseman.  Dailey would be named an All-Star that year and later in 1981. 

Dave Poulin got off to a really slow start in hockey, which makes sense since he began his athletic career as a figure skater and saw hockey as a way to earn a scholarship to Notre Dame.  After college, he played a season in Sweden. The Flyers signed him, and he quickly proved to be valuable, scoring 76, 74, 69, and 70 Points in his first four full seasons with Philadelphia.  Exceptional on the penalty kill, Poulin was skilled on his own side of the ice, where he would win the Frank J. Selke Award in 1987.  Two All-Star Games bookended that accolade.  Poulin would score 394 Points for the Flyers over his 467 Games while playing for them.
From Sweden, Mikael Renberg was a rookie sensation in 1993/94, scoring 82 Points and being put on a line with John LeClair and Eric Lindros to form the very popular “Legion of Doom”.  Renberg would never have a season like his rookie season, but he would have another two 50 Point seasons with Philly.  Renberg was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1997, but the fan favorite returned for two and a half seasons when Tampa traded him back to the Flyers.

Brad McCrimmon may never have been an All-Star when he was with the Philadelphia Flyers, but he was certainly worthy of consideration.  With the Flyers, he would finish in the top five three times in Plus/Minus and the top ten three times in Defensive Point Shares (including a first-place finish in the 1985/86 campaign), and he would have a career high 56 Points in 1985/86.  His overall numbers with Philadelphia would see him score 187 Points with a Plus/Minus of 225.