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Accolades
- Ontario Hockey Association All-Star Second Team, 1963-64.
- Ontario Hockey Association All-Star First Team, 1964-65.
- Memorial Cup championship in 1965.
- Dave Pinkney Trophy winner in 1965.
- Played in the National Hockey League All-Star Game, 1967-68.
- Played in the National Hockey League All-Star Game, 1968-69.
- World Hockey Association All-Star Second Team, 1972-73.
- West Division Most Valuable Player 1974 (player poll by The Sporting News).
- Vezina Trophy (shared w/Tony Esposito) , 1974.
- Played in the National Hockey League All-Star Game, 1973-74.
- National Hockey League All-Star First Team, 1973-74.
- Conn Smythe Trophy, winner in 1974.
- Sport Magazine Player of the Year Award (hockey), 1974-75.
- Sporting News Campbell Conference First Team (players), 1974-75.
- John Wanamaker Award (Philadelphia Athlete of the Year), 1974-75.
- Played in the National Hockey League All-Star Game, 1974-75.
- Played in the National Hockey League All-Star First Team, 1974-75.
- Seagram's Hockey Player of the Year Award, 1974-75.
- Hockey News First-Team (fans), 1974-75.
- Conn Smythe Trophy winner in 1975.
- Vezina Trophy winner in 1975.
- Class Guy Award winner in 1979.
- Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame, 1984.
- In 1998, he was ranked number 63 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.
- Goaltender for Canadian Hockey League All-Time All-Star Team, May 19, 1999.
- Inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.
PHOTO: Bruce C. Cooper (digital image) - The Cooper Collections
Records & Fun Facts
RECORDS
- Bernie set the National Hockey League (NHL) records for games started (73) and games won (47) by a goaltender in single season, 1973-74.
In 1975, Bernie became the sixth National Hockey League goaltender to record four shutouts in one postseason. The Flyers would win their second consecutive Stanley Cup, over Buffalo, this year. - Bernie was the fourth hockey player and third goalie to appear on the cover of Time magazine on February 24, 1975.
- Previously Bernie held the mark for most wins in a season (47), surpassed by New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur during the 2006–07 season with 48 wins. His 47 win season in 1973–74 is still the record for most regulation time wins in a single season. Parent did not have the benefit of overtime or shootouts or a longer season in his era.
FUN FACTS
- On November 11, 1970, Bernie received a five-minute major penalty for fighting Chicago's Gerry Pinder.
- On April 8, 1971, with 4:42 remaining in Toronto's 4-1 postseason victory over the New York Rangers, and in the middle of a brawl between the clubs, Parent tangled with New York Rangers counterpart Ed Giacomin (neither received penalties).
- During the tussle, New York's Vic Hadfield took Parent's discarded face mask and tossed it into the Madison Square Garden stands. When the smoke cleared, Parent was forced to leave the game because didn't want to play maskless, and had left his spare mask in Toronto.
- Jacques Plante finished the game for the Maple Leafs. Bernie was not only the first player to jump from the National Hockey League to the fledgeling World Hockey Associaton; he was the first to return to the National league.
- Bernie was the first player in National Hockey League history to repeat as Conn Smythe Trophy winner, 1975. On October 11, 1979, Bernie's #1 was retired by the Philadelphia Flyers.
- Bernie is the first goaltender in the history of the National Hockey League to have his sweater number retired.