1976-77 Philadelphia
Firebirds (NAHL)
(1976 Lockhart Cup Champions)
Top Row: Dave "Sudsy"
Settlemyre (Trainer),
Richard "Pez" Campeau, Mike Bradbury, George "Swarby"
Swarbrick, Peter Cahill, Michel "Itchy" Plante, Jim
"Turk"
Evers (Equipment Manager).
Middle Row: Bruce
"Scoop"
Cooper
(PR), Don "Hayser" Hay, Dan Nelson,
Ray "Shooter"
Schultz,
Mark "Bosco" Bousquet, Les "J.C."
Crozier, Mike "Kono"
Penasse.
Bottom Row: Rejean "Reggie"
Lemelin, Gordie "The
Roadhog" Brooks, Bobby "B.C." Collyard,
Gregg "Pill"
Pilling (GM/Coach), Dean "Deano" Boylan, Randy "Wizzard"
Osburn, Loren "Mooner" Molleken.
...I
have worked in pro hockey in
Philadelphia and Hershey (Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Phantoms,
Philadelphia Firebirds, Hershey Bears) since 1969 as a
freelance
writer, PR man, historian, statistician, and in radio/TV broadcasting.
I have written well over 2,000 articles (many for team programs of
the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL), Philadelphia Firebirds (NAHL), Hershey
Bears (AHL), Richmond Robins (AHL), Maine Mariners (AHL), and others,
as well as three books on hockey -- "Conditioning
for Hockey: Year
Round" (co-authored
with Pat Croce) Leisure Press, 1983; "The Hockey
Trivia Book" (co-authored with Gene Hart) Leisure Press,
1984; and ten
chapters in "Professional
Sports Teams Histories - Hockey"Gale
Research Co., 1994. (In addition to my hockey books, I have written
and/or edited four books on North American (US and Canada) railroad
history including "Riding the
Transcontinental
Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad 1865-1881"
Polyglot
Press, 2005, 445-pages, Illustrated. and "The Classic
Western American Railroad Routes"
(320 pages, Illustrated). I have also appeared extensively in two
documentary films relating to the history of the NHL Philadelphia
Flyers: "History of the Philadelphia
Flyers"
(Warner Home Video, 2007) produced by NHL Productions, and
"The
Broad Street Bullies"
(HBO Sports, 2010) and am currently co-producing a feature
length
documentary film on the life and times of my long time broadcasting
colleague and close personal friend, the late Hockey Hall of Fame
"Voice" of the Flyers, Gene Hart. In my various capacities I worked
and/or attended over 3,000
professional hockey
games.
For additional detailed information on my background please also visit
my Wikipedia
User Page.
Bruce "Scoop"
Cooper
Drinking from the Stanley Cup in the Flyers' lockerroom in the Spectrum on May 19, 1974.
Working an NHL on NBC telecast of the Philadelphia Flyers with Doc and Edzo.
Some of my memories from eight Stanley Cup finals between 1974 and 2010.
A page from my 1984 book "The Hockey Trivia Book" co-authored with the late
Hall of Fame voice of the Flyers, Gene Hart, autogropahed by fifteen of the
greatest members of the Hockey Hall of Fame: Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr,
Wayne Gretzky, Bob Clarke, Glenn Hall, Phil Esposito, John Bucyk, Denis Potvin,
Fred Shero, Scotty Bowman, Al Arbour, Emile Francis, Kerry Fraser and Mike Emrick.
©1969-2018 Bruce
C. Cooper
Click on the
links below to see
some of my Hockey History Pages...
Hershey Park Arena:
1936-2002
A
60th Anniversary History of the AHL Hershey Bears Hockey Club: 1938-1998
Frank
Mathers: Thanks for the Memories....
The
Philadelphia-Hershey Hockey Wars of 1938-39
A Concise History of
the American Hockey League
& Minor
Pro
Hockey in Philadelphia: 1927-2009
Scoop's Personal
Hockey Images
"Slap Shot" Visits
the Phantoms
1975-76 &
1976-77 Philadelphia Firebirds Image Gallery
Appearance on "The Heart of the Rink Hockey Show"
with Frank Block -- January 9. 2015
***
Interview of Mike "Doc" Emrick of the NHL on NBC
by Jeff "Bones" Quake of WESS-FM
April 2, 2015 (22 minutes)
Interview of Kenny Albert of the NHL on NBC
by Jeff "Bones" Quake of WESS-FM
March 24, 2017 (15:30 minutes)
1975-76 Philadelphia Firebirds Highlight Film
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In the
Philadelphia Flyers' pressbox with two good friends
of many decades:
Father and son
Hockey Hall of Famers Gordie & Mark Howe.
***
See also some of my other websites:
DigitalImageServices.com
ThePalaceHotel.org
TranscontinentalRails.com
BMLRR.com
The
Central Pacific Railroad
Photographic History
Museum
(CPRR.org)
My Wikipedia User Page (Centpacrr)
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Email me at:
Scoop@HockeyScoop.net