The Philadelphia Flyers have been around for a long time—54 years, 9 months, and 6 days to be exact. Not as long as some teams like those pesky “original” six, but a pretty long time. For a large chunk of those 54 years, they’ve been pretty successful, at least in terms of icing pretty strong teams. When they won their first Stanley Cup in their seventh season, they were the fastest expansion team in any sport to do so at the time. They then won another the following year.
The Flyers then followed that up with 14 consecutive playoff appearances before finally hitting a franchise low point with the beginning of the ‘90s.