1974-75 Topps 154: Philadelphia Flyers Team Leaders

On the evening of Wednesday, April 17, 2013, I’ll be listing 10 vintage hockey cards of decent value on eBay for the incredible low opening bid price of just 1 cent! Included in the ten is the 1974-75 Topps #154 card featuring the Philadelphia Flyers team leaders from the 1973-74 season. The images shown are of the actual card being auctioned.

Full list of the 10 cards being auctioned.

The Card

The Philadelphia Flyers team leaders card features Bobby Clarke and Dave ‘The Hammer’ Schultz on the front. Clarke is pictured three times as team leader in goals, assists and points. Schultz in pictured once but not as the team’s penalty minutes leader as one might expect. The Hammer led the Flyers in 1973-74 in scoring percentage!

This card is one of 264 in the 1974-75 Topps set. A full collection is valued at $200 and a common team leaders card is valued at $.50, ten cents lower than a regular common card. The Philadelphia Flyers team leaders card is valued at $2.00. The highlight of the series is the Scotty Bowman rookie card which is valued at $30.

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The Team

The Flyers finished first in the West Division in 1973-74 with 50 wins and 112 points over the 78 game schedule. Philadelphia was second overall in the National Hockey League, one point behind the East Division leading Boston Bruins.

In the playoffs, the Flyers swept the Atlanta Flames in the quarter-finals before going seven games with the New York Rangers in the semis. The Flyers came out victorious to earn a showdown with the Boston Bruins in the finals. Philadelphia came out on top in six games to become the first non-original 6 team to win the championship since the Montreal Maroons in 1927-28.

Fred Shero became the first recipient of the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s Coach of the Year. Shero was a brilliant coaching mind who won championships no matter what league he was coaching in. Yet, the Hockey Hall of Fame still will not honour him.

Dave Schultz was not only a scoring star for the Flyers, he sat 348 minutes in the sin bin over 73 regular season games. In the playoffs, he played in all of Philadelphia’s 17 games and sat another 139 minutes in the box.

Bernie Parent played in net for 73 of the team’s 78 regular season games and all 17 of Philadelphia’s playoff games. He shared the Vezina Trophy with Tony Esposito of the Chicago Black Hawks and earned 12 shutouts during the regular season. In the playoffs, Parent was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.

Bobby Clarke may have led the Flyers in scoring during the regular season but it was Rick MacLeish who provided the offensive power in the playoffs. MacLeish led the taem with 13 goals and 22 points.

Articles on other cards being auctioned:

Harry Watson 1954-55 Parkhurst 17

Bobby Clarke 1970-71 Dad’s Cookies 15

Tom Johnson 1963-64 Topps 4

Darryl Sittler 1976-77 Topps 207

Bryan Trottier 1976-77 Topps 67 RB

Charlie Burns 1963-64 Topps 9