Scoop- you & I are totally on the same page here. First thing I thought of after reading Stewy's blog was the Schultz / Rolfe incident. I love the "Broad Street Bullies" documentary that you may be familiar with! I was reminded of the quotes from the Flyers regarding Schultz / Rolfe.

"Davey just hammered him..." Bob Clarke

"Oh my God Almighty! He hit him a number of times & then he grabbed his hair..." - Joe Watson

"He was pummeling him, and not one New York Ranger came to his defense. Now this woulda never happened with a Flyer team. If somebody was getting beat up, watch out!" Gary Dornhoefer

"That kinda showed us that, ya know, wait a minute: these guys aren't gonna stick together or back one another up. I don't think there was a guy on our team that didn't really believe that we were gonna beat them." Bobby Taylor

The point is not to say that the Rangers should have jumped Burrows and beat him to a pulp. Things happen over the course of a season as a team forges its identity that are indicators of how strong a team pulls together and truly plays for one another. Teams that are strongly galvanized greatly improve their chances of playing far above their collective skill level. Just as teams that don't stick together can find themselves greatly under-achieving...
- Doubles

Exactly my point and the perfect example of this was the Flyers under Fred Shero in the mid 1970/s the players of which (many of whom I still see often) are as close to each other now as they were then. I certainly am familiar with the HBO "Broad Street Bullies" film as I both appeared in it and provided the producers with a great deal of background information for it. (I also appeared in and provided much material for the Flyers 40th Anniversary video produced by NHL Productions a couple of years earlier.)

One of the stories I told in my on camera interviews for both films was about a rookie defenseman named Steve Short who took a run at Bob Clarke on the first day of training camp in September, 1974 and ended up having to visit the hospital emergency room a few blocks from the Flyers' then training facilities at the Class of '23 Rink on the University of Pennsylvania campus every day for a week as each of Clarke's teammates took a piece of Short in practice to emphasize to him that it was against the code to abuse Clarke or anyone else on the team.

When the Flyers won their first Cup in 1974 the advantage they had over the Atlanta Flames, New York Rangers, and Boston Bruins in that playoffs was that every Flyer had every other Flyer's back. As Fred Shero said, "Win today and we will walk together forever" and that's exactly what they did then and as still doing today six weeks shy of forty years after Clarke, Parent, and the rest of that Flyer family carried the Cup around the Spectrum ice on May 19, 1974.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgle_jJIcTM