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Twelve Potential Flyers Hall of Famers: Part One

By Jacob Modugno

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - FEBRUARY 24: Hall of Fame banners hang at Wells Fargo Center in a game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers on February 24, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - FEBRUARY 24: Hall of Fame banners hang at Wells Fargo Center in a game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers on February 24, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) /
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MARK RECCHI

Mark Recchi, Philadelphia Flyers (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
Mark Recchi, Philadelphia Flyers (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /

It’s actually very surprising to me that Recchi isn’t already in the Flyers Hall of Fame considering his impressive numbers and his time spent with Philadelphia. Recchi, a former fourth-round pick of the Penguins in 1988, was brought over in the trade involving the aforementioned Rick Tocchet in 1992.

Recchi played 602 of his 1,652 NHL games with the Flyers across 10 different seasons in two separate stints, which is the most games with any of the seven teams he played with. In his first time around with Philadelphia, Recchi appeared in 200 games and racked up 105 goals and 157 assists for 262 points. That was before the famous 1995 trade that saw him traded along with a 1995 3rd-round pick to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for John LeClair, Éric Desjardins, and Gilbert Dionne.

Recchi’s best NHL season came with the Flyers in 1992-93 when the winger recorded 53 goals and 70 assists for 123 points in 84 games. Those goal and point totals remained as personal bests for Recchi for the remainder of his NHL career. He would also score 107 points in the 1993-94 season before being shipped off to Montreal 10 games into the 1994-95 season.

Recchi would not return to Broad Street until 1999 when the Canadiens traded him back for Dainius Zubrus, a 1999 2nd-round pick, and a 2000 6th-round pick. In his second stint with the Flyers, Recchi played in 402 games and posted 127 goals and 238 assists for 365 points before leaving in free agency in 2004.

Altogether, Recchi scored 232 goals and 395 assists for 627 points in 602 games while wearing the Winged-P. His 395 assists are good for sixth in Flyers history and his 627 points rank him as the ninth-highest scorer in Flyer history currently, just 23 points ahead of Jake Voracek who will easily break that mark next season.

Recchi’s 123-point campaign in 1992-93 still stands as the highest-scoring season in franchise history, and the only Flyer to break the century mark in a season since then besides Recchi again the very next season are Eric Lindros and Claude Giroux. Recchi’s 53 goals that year also still stand as the sixth-highest total in a season in franchise history, and only John LeClair has eclipsed the 50-goal mark as a Flyer since Recchi accomplished the feat.

Recchi is also only one of two Flyers to record multiple triple-digit scoring seasons in Orange and Black with the other being fellow franchise legend and the undisputed greatest Flyer ever, Bobby Clarke, who recorded three 100+ point seasons to Recchi’s two.

Recchi was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2017, which cemented him as one of the game’s all-time greats with 577 goals and 956 assists for 1,533 points in 1,652 games. The majority of those numbers came with the Flyers, and while he did not win any of his three Stanley Cups here or win any major awards while with Philadelphia, Recchi still stands as one of the greatest Flyers in history and is long overdue for an induction into the Flyers Hall of Fame.

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