Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a member of the National Hockey League (NHL), where they play in the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference. They joined the league in the 1967 expansion that doubled it from six clubs to twelve, and they were the first of those expansion teams to win the Stanley Cup, taking the trophy in 1974 and again in 1975. They have reached the Final six more times since, most recently in 2010. The team played at the Spectrum from its first season until 1996 and has played at the arena now called Xfinity Mobile Arena in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex since, a building it shares with the Philadelphia 76ers. In the 1970s the club's physical, brawling style and its Broad Street home earned it the nickname the Broad Street Bullies, and its pregame tradition of playing Kate Smith's recording of God Bless America became one of the best known rituals in the sport. Philadelphia had one earlier NHL team, the Quakers, who lasted only the 1930-31 season.