Two-time Vezina and two-time Conn Smythe winner — the goaltender of the Broad Street Bullies dynasty.
Bernard Marcel Parent was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1945. He is the only player to win the Vezina Trophy and Conn Smythe Trophy in consecutive years (1974 and 1975) — winning both awards in both championship seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers. He won two Stanley Cup championships with Philadelphia (1974, 1975) — the Broad Street Bullies teams that were simultaneously the most brutal and most successful franchise of the mid-1970s. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984 and named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in 2017. His goals-against average in those two championship seasons was below 2.0 — exceptional given the era and the team in front of him. An eye injury in 1979 ended his career. He modelled his style on Jacques Plante — who he cited as his primary influence on how to play the position. His back-to-back Conn Smythe wins represent a standard that no goaltender has since matched.
Stanley Cup 2x (1974,1975)
Career Honours
- Stanley Cup 2x (1974,1975)
- Vezina Trophy 2x (1974,1975)
- Conn Smythe Trophy 2x (1974,1975)
- Hall of Fame (1984)
- NHL 100 Greatest Players