Effort. Playing hurt. Overachieving. Three times in that decade, Flyers teams - two of which had a hockey bag full of good excuses - battled their way to the Stanley Cup Finals. Poulin battled through knee and rib injuries to score a two-man disadvantage goal to close out Quebec in the semifinals in 1985, but the 1984-85 Oilers, with six future Hall of Famers, simply overwhelmed them in the Finals. Playing after their best scorer, Tim Kerr, busted a knee and with Poulin, their captain again playing with broken ribs, the 1987 team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to push the historically talented Oilers to seven games. Facing an Islanders team at the start of its four-year run of Cups, the Flyers were undone in the spring of 1980 by some critical calls, including an unheard-of-at-the time penalty in overtime of Game 1, and Leon Stickle's infamous no-call of an offsides that led directly to a go-ahead goal in the deciding Game 6.