Philadelphia Firebirds

Philadelphia Firebirds
founding	1974
resolution	1979
history	Philadelphia Firebirds 1974-1979 Syracuse Firebirds 1979-1980
Stadion	Philadelphia Civic Center
Location	Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
Team colors	orange, yellow, white, green
league	North American Hockey League (1974–1977) American Hockey League (1977–1979)
Cooperations	Detroit Red Wings Colorado Rockies
Calder cups	no

The Philadelphia Firebirds were an American ice hockey franchise of the American Hockey League based in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The venue for the Firebirds was the Philadelphia Civic Center .

history

The Philadelphia Firebirds was founded in 1974 as a franchise of the North American Hockey League . The Firebirds achieved their greatest success when they won the Lockhart Cup as a playoff winner in the NAHL in the 1975/76 season. After the league was dissolved in 1977, the Firebirds moved together with the Broome Dusters to the American Hockey League , where the Philadelphia team each played for a season as a farm team of the Detroit Red Wings and the Colorado Rockies from the National Hockey League and in theirs first AHL season (1977/78) immediately reached the playoffs, where they were defeated in the first round with 1: 3 wins to the New Haven Nighthawks .

After the team had missed the playoffs in the 1979/80 season, the franchise was relocated to Syracuse , New York , where it was active as the Syracuse Firebirds in the AHL in the 1979/80 season .

Season statistics (AHL)

Team of the Firebirds 1976/77 with the Lockhart Cup

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime, SOL = defeats after shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals against, PIM = penalty minutes

season	GP	W.	L.	T	OTL	SOL	Pts	GF	GA	space	Playoffs
1977-78	81	35	35	11	-	-	81	294	290	3rd, South	1st round: defeat, 1: 3 against New Haven Nighthawks
1978-79	80	23	49	8th	-	-	54	230	347	5th, South	not qualified

Team Records (AHL)

Career records

Games: 161 Gord Brooks

Goals: 85 Gord Brooks

Assists: 97 Bob Collyard

Points: 172 Gord Brooks

Penalty minutes: 251 Mike Haworth

Web links

• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Philadelphia Firebirds
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Philadelphia Firebirds