Remembering Bernie Parent: Flyers legend passes away at 80 years old | PHLY Flyers Podcast

PHLY Philadelphia Flyers Podcast

ALLCITY Network

Hockey, Wells Fargo Center, Nhl Philadelphia Flyers, Nhl Flyers, Philadelphia Flyers Fans, Philadelphia Flyers Podcast, Flyers Rumors, Phly, Flyers Breakdown, Flyers Coverage, Phly Sports, Flyers Daily Podcast, Philadelphia Flyers 2025, Nhl Postgame, Nhl Talk, Flyers Live Podcast, Flyers 2025, Flyers Nation, Orange And Black, Flyers Schedule 2025, Philadelphia Flyers News, Broad Street Hockey, Nhl Power Rankings, Nhl Daily Podcast, Philadelphia Flyers Insider, Nhl Podcast, Flyers Analysis, Nhl Fans, Flyers News, Charlie O'connor, Bill Matz, Flyers Rebuild, 2025 Philadelphia Flyers, Flyers Podcast, Nhl Trade Deadline, Broad Street Bullies, Flyers Fans, Nhl Trade Rumors, Flyers Postgame, Nhl Eastern Conference, Philadelphia Flyers Analysis, Flyers Insider, Nhl, Philly Hockey, Flyers Hockey, Flyers Talk, Nhl 2025, Nhl News, Phly Flyers Podcast, Phly Flyers, Sports, Flyers, Philadelphia Flyers

4.7 • 774 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We’re going to be remembering one of the all-time great Philadelphia Flyers today, talking about the legacy of Hall of Famer Bernie Parent. Charlie & Bill share their own stories and those from fans as well following Bernie’s passing at 80 on Sunday.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, Flyers fans, and welcome to P HL-Y Flyers. My name is Bill Mats and I am joined today by
0:26.9	Philly's number one hockey beatwriter Charlie O'Connor. We are of course presented by our friends
0:33.5	at Bet365 and your local Ford store and And we're doing a little something different today.
0:39.0	We are going to be honoring and remembering Bernie Perrant, Flyers Legend, who passed away
0:44.3	at 80 years old yesterday.
0:47.1	It was Sunday, September 21st.
0:49.9	And I think it hit all of us pretty hard because we were all just with Bernie pretty recently. We was at the draft party. I saw him at a Joe Conklin comedy show back in July. This kind of, it's always hard to say like, oh, it came out of nowhere. It's like 80, but 80's not 120. Yeah. You know, like it's, it all kind of, it just sort of happened.
1:11.4	Like, oh, and he's one of those guys that you just thought, like, he's, he's 80, but he's not.
1:16.5	He's Bernie.
1:17.2	He's a freaking legend.
1:19.0	And I think it was also that he was still so active.
1:22.0	He was still out and about.
1:23.4	You were still seeing.
1:24.5	From what I understand, I wasn't there, but he was in attendance this weekend for Ray Dittinger, uh, had was failing a play and Bernie was there for a Q&A. So it maybe it would have been less shocking if, you know, Bernie Prawn had been, you know, mostly out of the public eye for 10 years. And then you hear he passed
1:45.5	away. But he was, he was out and about. He was, he was there. He was, he was an active part of the
1:50.7	Flyers community, like literally until the day he died. No, and that was, I spoke about it briefly
1:56.7	on Philadelphia this morning and that, I said he exemplified what it was to be a Flyers alumni.
2:03.1	Yeah.
2:03.3	Like out and about, accessible, jovial.
2:07.5	He came to the draft party, just showing off the rings.
2:10.6	Like, that's how he walked through the whole place with his fists out so you could see his rings.
2:15.4	And so I think it's important we do. And this was,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ALLCITY Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ALLCITY Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.