Bernard Marcel Parent (born April 3, 1945) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs, and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Philadelphia Blazers. Parent is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time. During the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons, in what many consider the finest consecutive seasons ever by a goaltender, the Flyers won two Stanley Cups and Parent won the Vezina Trophy and Conn Smythe Trophy both seasons. In that two-year run of dominance, Parent posted 30 shutouts in regular and post season play combined. A 1984 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Parent was rated number 63 on The Hockey News\' list of The Top 100 NHL Players of All-Time in 1998. Parent remains an iconic fan favorite in Philadelphia more than three decades after his retirement. In 2017 Parent was named one of the \'100 Greatest NHL Players\' in history.\n', '

Parent is the youngest of seven siblings. He grew up in Rosemont, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. Parent\'s hero as a young boy was Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante, whose sister lived in Parent\'s neighborhood. Many times Parent watched out for Plante\'s visits to his sister and her family. Plante later became his teammate and mentor in 1971 for Toronto Maple Leafs, when Plante was 43.\n', '

As a Québécois, Parent\'s use of English was a never ending source of locker room and bus trip humor, especially when he was excited. During his early playing career, Parent did not conduct interviews in English for fear of saying the wrong things.[citation needed]\n', '

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