John Brian Patrick Quinn, was a Canadian ice hockey player, head coach, and executive. Known by the nickname "The Big Irishman", he coached for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Edmonton Oilers, reaching the Stanley Cup Finals twice, with the Flyers in 1980 and the Canucks in 1994. Internationally, Quinn coached Team Canada to gold medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships and 2009 World Junior Championship, as well as World Cup championship in 2004.
Quinn at the 2012 NHL Winter Classic
Quinn at Pacific Coliseum during Gordie Howe Night in Vancouver, March 2008
The Pat Quinn Parkdale Arena was named in Quinn's honour in June 2005
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. The Flyers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games in Wells Fargo Center in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, an indoor arena they share with the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League (NLL). Part of the 1967 NHL expansion, the Flyers are the first of the expansion teams in the post–Original Six era to win the Stanley Cup, victorious in 1973–74 and again in 1974–75.
The Philadelphia Quakers, who played during the 1930–31 season, was Philadelphia's first NHL franchise.
The Spectrum was the home arena for the Philadelphia Flyers from 1967 to 1996.
Ed Snider, the team's initial co-owner
Jersey of Flyers' goaltender Bernie Parent, who played for the Flyers from 1967–68 to 1970–71 and again from 1973–74 to 1978–79
