Bernie Parent Bernard Marcel " Bernie " Parent ( born April 3 , 1945 ) , is a retired Canadian professional goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League ( NHL ) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers , Boston Bruins , and Toronto Maple Leafs , and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) with the Philadelphia Blazers . During the 1973 – 74 and 1974 – 75 seasons , Parent backstopped the Flyers to two Stanley Cup s and won the Vezina Trophy and Conn Smythe Trophy both seasons . A 1984 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame , Parent was rated number 63 on the List of 100 greatest hockey players by The Hockey News in 1998 . Playing career . Parent played for the Niagara Falls Flyers of the OHA Junior A league . A two - time winner of the Dave Pinkney Trophy y ( lowest goals against average or GAA ) , he wrapped up his junior career by backstopping the team to the OHA championship and the Memorial Cup championship in 1965 . Parent began his career with the struggling Boston Bruins in the 1965 – 66 season , appearing in 39 games . The following season was split between Boston and the Bruins farm club in Oklahoma . Left unprotected for the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft , Parent was chosen by the Philadelphia Flyers where he and Doug Favell , another former Bruin prospect , split the netminding duties for the Flyers ' first season . Parent recorded a solid 2 . 48 GAA with 4 shutouts in helping the Flyers finish first in the NHL ’ s West Division . Over the next two seasons , with Favell performing inconsistently or injured , Parent became the Flyers # 1 goalie and appeared in 58 and 62 games for the offensively weak Flyers . Looking for help up front to improve the club ’ s offence , the Flyers dealt Parent to the Toronto Maple Leafs in January , 1971 . The move proved to be beneficial to Parent , as he joined his boyhood hero , Jacques Plante , who at 42 was having an all - star season . Plante was a wealth of knowledge and experience , a true student of the game . Under his tutelage , Parent became a more consistent and technically proficient goalie . Parent played well for the Leafs through the 1971 – 72 season , gaining valuable regular season and playoff experience as the team ’ s workhorse goalie facing the top teams and shooters in the league . Without a contract with the Leafs in the summer of 1972 , Parent signed a large contract with the Miami Screaming Eagles of the newly forming World Hockey Association . He was the first player to ‘ jump ’ to the WHA . The Miami franchise fizzled and became the Philadelphia Blazers . Parent faced a barrage of shots in 63 regular season games for the Blazers in the defensively weak league . After leaving the team over a contract dispute during the 1973 WHA playoffs , he sought a return to the NHL but did not wish to return to the Leafs . Toronto traded Parent ’ s NHL rights back to the Flyers for Doug Favell and a first round pick in that summer ’ s ( 1973 ) amateur draft . The next two seasons were the greatest of his career . Playing 73 games in a 78 game schedule , Parent sparkled in leading the league with a 1 . 89 GAA and 12 shutouts . He shared the Vezina Trophy with Chicago ’ s Tony Esposito and was named a first team all - star in leading the Flyers to a first place finish in the West Division . He finished the year in fine style , taking the Conn Smythe Trophy while leading the Flyers to the first of two Stanley Cup Championships . The following year was much of the same , adding another Vezina Trophy to a second Conn Smythe Trophy and Stanley Cup . A lost statistic is the fact that Parent played on a team that lead the NHL in penalty minutes thus killing penalties ( Dave Schultz alone had 472 in one season ) . “ Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent ” became a catch - phrase and bumper sticker in the city of brotherly love in those years . Following the championship seasons , Parent was sidelined by injury and appeared in only 11 games in 1975 – 76 . Over the next three seasons , he played well overall but experienced difficulties at times . Jacques Plante , although in retirement , continued to have a strong influence on Parent ' s career . Parent , like Plante , was always a stand - up type goalie . At one point Parent was playing poorly and considering retirement . Plante watched him practice in Philadelphia for two days , then told Parent exactly what he was doing wrong - sitting back on his heels , backing into his crease and losing concentration . Parent heeded Plante ' s advice and rebounded to form . In February 1979 , Parent ' s career was cut short by a career ending eye injury in a game against the New York Rangers . An errant stick entered the right eye hole of his mask causing permanent damage to his vision . This incident is significant as it caused many NHL goalies to switch from fibreglass facemasks toward the cage and helmet style , and resulted in many amateur and junior leagues banning fiberglass masks altogether , mandating the helmet / cage combo . Post - career . After Parent ' s retirement , the Flyers retired his jersey number ( 1 ) in his honor . Parent spent several years in the Flyers organization as goaltending coach , and is credited with mentoring future Vezina - winning goalies Ron Hextall and the late Pelle Lindbergh , the latter of whom idolized Parent as a youngster from afar in his native Sweden . Parent was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984 . In 1998 , he was ranked number 63 on " The Hockey News " ' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players .