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Name:
KELLY, Bob
Sport:
Hockey
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In the City of Brotherly Love, where he spent most of his National Hockey League career, Robert J. Kelly’s image loomed large. Not so much physically but much more as a professional hockey player – and that’s nothing to sneeze at, because when Kelly played for the Philadelphia Flyers, the team also loomed large on the hockey horizon. The Flyers were known as the “Broad Street Bullies” and they specialized in beating up on their NHL foes and, along the way, winning some hockey’s most coveted prizes. One of the high Flyers was the bold left-winger the fans nicknamed at times “Port Credit Comet” or (more often) “Hound Dog Kelly” in reference to his exuberant style and hard-nosed approach to the game. A season ticket holder even insisted on sitting in seat No.9 in the gold section to correspond with the number on Kelly’s jersey. Two Stanley Cups (1974 and ‘75) and five Division championships – these were the keys that opened the doors of the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame to Bob Kelly for 1984, two years after he bid farewell to professional hockey. Born in Oakville, Kelly grew up in Port Credit and received his early minor hockey education in Mississauga. At bantam age, he joined the Toronto Red Wings rep organization and at 16, he won a Canadian Centennial medal with the Toronto Butterbeeps in 1967. He spent his junior hockey years with York Steel (Junior B)and Oshawa Generals (Junior A) where he won the Most Valuable Player honours in the 1969-’70 campaign. Kelly broke into the big leagues in ‘70, picked up by Philadelphia in the second round of the overage junior draft. When Flyers first joined the NHL in the original expansion, they suffered from lack of identity and, as a result, were one of the dullest teams. But the arrival on the scene of some fresh blood – Kelly, Bobby Clarke and Dave (The Hammer) Schultz – the Flyers soon started to play a different, more physical game and soon the label “ Broad Street Bullies” stuck. Generally, Schultz was considered to the most physical of the Bullies, but Kelly was just a step behind. |
During his 12 years in the NHL, Kelly played for only two teams: Philadelphia for the first decade and the Washington Capitals for two seasons. In 821 games, he scored 154 goals and had 204 assists for 358 points. He was no stranger to the penalty box, serving 1,442 minutes sin-bin time. His most outstanding achievement? A 35- game unbeaten streak with the Flyers in 1979-‘80. He says his most memorable game came not in an NHL clash, but in an exhibition game when the Flyers beat up on the visiting Soviet Red Army team 4-1 in 1977. Kelly looks back on his NHL years with pride. “I was proud to be a Flyers’ member for 10 years and proud to be a chapter in the NHL for our style play,” he says. Following his NHL career, Kelly and his family settled in New Jersey. |
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