Philly Flu - urban legend or based in reality?

[seventieslord]

We've all heard that during the heyday of the Broad Street Bullies, opposing players would contract the "Philly Flu" prior to a game at the spectrum, ostensibly because they were afraid of playing the Flyers.

Now that game logs spanning the history of the NHL are available, this can be confirmed or refuted. If there are numerous instances of a player playing in the games both immediately before and immediately after a road game in Philadelphia, then the legend is confirmed.

But checking the records game by game and player by player would be too labor intensive. If anyone can quickly answer this question, I imagine @pnep can.

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[pnep]

Season	#PHI_FLU *
1967-68	7
1968-69	15
1969-70	15
1970-71	8
1971-72	11
1972-73	19
1973-74	17
1974-75	12
1975-76	9
1976-77	11
1977-78	13
1978-79	8
1979-80	18
1980-81	20
1981-82	28
1982-83	22
1983-84	11
1984-85	14
1985-86	16
1986-87	19
1987-88	22
1988-89	22
1989-90	25
1990-91	24
1991-92	23
1992-93	17
1993-94	20
1994-95	13
1995-96	17
1996-97	26
1997-98	19
1998-99	15
1999-00	21
2000-01	20
2001-02	13
2002-03	8
2003-04	15
2005-06	14
2006-07	12
2007-08	10
2008-09	15
2009-10	13
2010-11	12
2011-12	9
2012-13	9
2013-14	16
2014-15	19
2015-16	7
2016-17	12
2017-18	9
2018-19	17
2019-20	13
2020-21	2
2021-22	12
2022-23	13
2023-24	12

* - Skaters only

 

[pnep]

* - Skaters only

SEASONS_#PHI_FLU

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[pnep]

* - Skaters only

SKATERS_#PHI_FLU

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