Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parent himself is not sure he likes that kind of play. "To be aggressive is the kind of game I like," he says, picking his words carefully, "but cheap shots, they're not good. They break down our system and concentration." Rivals are contemptuous. Ranger Coach Emile Francis says: "I appreciate great players like Gordie Howe who play you tough." Then referring to the Flyers, he adds: "But this other kind of baloney, that's Eastern League hockey...
...Parent understands the concern; he once played in similar amateur programs in his native Montreal. His introduction to hockey came with a tennis ball as a puck and galoshes for skates. The pick-up games were played on neighborhood streets and young Bernie, always a loner, wanted to play goalie from the start. "I stopped the first shot and that settled it," he recalls. "The challenge to make a save was always there. It was just in me." The son of a factory foreman, Parent did not start skating until he was 11, and then his debut in the goal...
...Parent, playing for a Boston Bruin farm team, was the best goalie in the Ontario Hockey Association and the Bruins brought him up. He bombed for two seasons. On the ice, Parent let in an average of 3.67 goals per game in 57 appearances; off the ice, he ravaged his $7,500 annual salary with a spree of high living. In 1967 the embryonic Flyers claimed...
...Philadelphia, Parent found a wife and contentment as the Flyers won their divisional championship the first year. But Parent's wanderings had only begun. In 1971 the Flyers traded him to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he became a protégé of Plante, then the Toronto goalie. That stint ended 18 months later when Parent bolted the Leafs to sign with the World Hockey Association's Miami Screaming Eagles. The only trouble was that Miami had no rink. "The only ice," recalls Parent, "was in a glass...
From the stillborn Eagles, Parent found his way to the W.H.A.'s Philadelphia Blazers, signing a fat five-year $750,000 contract. That adventure too ended in disaster when Parent quit the team midway through the 1973 playoffs, claiming he had not been paid. Angry Blazer teammates called him a "hockey Benedict Arnold." "I knew how the guys felt," says Parent, "but there are times in your life when you have to look after yourself." With that, Parent and his wife Carol took off for a cruise. In Martinique, he got a call informing him the Flyers had taken...