The Flyers won the game 5-1, but the ugliness of the incident lives on. Cummins got three stitches, a $300 fine and a three-game suspension. I don't know who that goon was, but you can bet if he stays around, there will be a lot of people taking runs at him.'Ĭlarke received 12 stitches from the incident. Quotes from the Flyers included Bob Kelly saying, ' Cummins got what he deserved' and Bill Flett adding, 'It's easy to kill somebody. There's gotta be six guys pounding him while this was going on.' Ed Van Impe was going around jabbing Cummins with his stick-spearing him. Winger Joey Johnston of California told Hockey Digest, 'Bob Kelly went out with his stick and Dave Schultz and then the rest. I picked up my stick and did the same thing.' 'I got a stick in the eye (from Clarke),' Cummins remembered. Years later, Cummins recalled the incident in the book, Shorthanded: The Untold Story of the Seals, Hockey's Most Colorful Team. On December 2, 1973, the 'Broad Street Bullies' were at their fighting best (or worst).īarry Cummins, a journeyman defenseman of the California Golden Seals, found out what happens to opposing players who dared lay a finger on Flyers captain Bobby Clarke.

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