Bobby Clarke

Robert E. " Bobby" Clarke O.C (born the August 13rd 1949 with Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada -)

Biography

It was chosen by the Flyers of Philadelphia to the fishing out amateur of the National league of hockey of 1969 like 17th choice (2 round).

Canadian player of Hockey, Clarke was the captain of the Flyers of Philadelphia, called at the time Broad Street Bullies , which gained the Coupe Stanley two consecutive years in 1974 and 1975.

In spite of interesting statistics, several teams of LNH raised the nose on him at its beginnings because he suffered from diabetes, but Flyers took a chance on Clarke by choosing it in second round of the fishing out amateur of 1969. It joined the team this year and missed only one match at its first four seasons in the LNH (without relationship with its diabetes).

This impetuous redhead gained three times the Trophée Binder as a player most useful to his team, in 1973,1975 and 1976. Its presence with the Série of the century of 1972 with Phil Esposito was an outstanding point in the history of hockey. Its toothless smile and the physical and brutal play which took place under its capitanat crystallized the image of the hockey player in the imaginary one of the Americans.

Clarke was withdrawn as a player in 1984 and became the managing director of Flyers until 1990 becoming then the managing director of the North Stars of Minnesota (current Stars of Dallas). Two years after, it finds vice-president and managing director of the Panthers of Florida, a concession of expansion. It returns to the bar of Flyers as managing director in 1994 and is always in station in 2006.

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