Barry Ashbee – Flyers/D (1971-74) Barry Ashbee won a Stanley Cup with the Flyers as a player (1973-74) and as an assistant coach (1974-75). In 1973-74 Ashbee was named a 2^nd team NHL All Star, was 4^th in Norris Trophy voting, and was a team high +52 for the season way ahead of runner-up Bobby Clarke (+35). Ashbee’s playing career ended that year during the playoffs when he took a puck to the eye off the stick of Dale Rolfe of the New York Rangers. Ashbee spent the next three years as a Flyers assistant coach. Near the end of the 1976-77 season, Ashbee was diagnosed with Leukemia. He died a month later on May 12, 1977.  The Flyers retired Ashbee’s #4 and annually award the Barry Ashbee Trophy to the Flyers best defenseman as voted by a panel of local sportswriters.

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