Bob Clarke ditched his jersey and unstrapped his hockey equipment on Saturday night in a Wells Fargo Center locker room cramped with Flyers luminaries. Bill Barber, Clarke's old linemate, sat on the bench beside him. Dave Schultz, the team's original enforcer, stood by the door.
It looked like an image from the 1970s, when the Flyers bullied the hockey world. And for Clarke, it marked the end. The organization's greatest player said that Saturday night would be the final time he played hockey, the game that brought Clarke from Flin Flon, Manitoba, to South Philly.