{"id":7620,"date":"2025-09-21T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:26:50","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten-bernie-parent-1945-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/gone-but-not-forgotten-bernie-parent-1945-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone But Not Forgotten:\u00a0Bernie Parent (1945-2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the greatest to ever play between the pipes, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/parenbe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.sportspaper.info&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-21_hr\">Bernie Parent<\/a>, has passed away at age 80. He is of course best remembered as the goalie for the Philadelphia Flyers during their Stanley Cup championship seasons of 1973-74 and 1974-75. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1974-75 Goal Magazine program\" class=\"wp-image-7621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13-1147x1536.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13-1074x1439.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nhl-goal-magazine_1974-75_13.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Parent, however, began his NHL career in 1965-66 with the Boston Bruins and was away from the Flyers for 3 seasons in the 1970s. During those years he was played for the Maple Leafs in the NHL and the Philadelphia Blazers of the WHA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"316\" data-id=\"7622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent-2.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphia Blazers Bernie Parent program photo\" class=\"wp-image-7622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent-2.jpg 361w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent-2-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"457\" data-id=\"7623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphia Blazers Bernie Parent program photo\" class=\"wp-image-7623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Philadelphia-Blazers-bernie-parent-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest to ever play between the pipes, Bernie Parent, has passed away at age 80. He is of course best remembered as the goalie for the Philadelphia Flyers during their Stanley Cup championship seasons of 1973-74 and 1974-75. Parent, however, began his NHL career in 1965-66 with the Boston Bruins and was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746],"tags":[59,879,779,877,878,42,880,453,169],"class_list":["post-7620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-1970s","tag-1972-73","tag-1974-75","tag-bernie-parent","tag-goal-magazine","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-blazers","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-wha","wpcat-746-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}