Reliving the 2005 Philadelphia Phantoms Run to the Calder Cup

20th Anniversary of Phantoms Triumph

By Scoop Cooper

This was my view from the TV broadcast booth at the then Wachovia Center as the scoreboard clock hit “00.0” on that sultry late Spring evening of June 10, 2005 as the AHL Philadelphia Phantoms and a Calder Cup record crowd of 20,103 fans began to celebrate Philadelphia’s second Calder Cup championship by sweeping the Chicago Wolves in four games in the finals. Despite there being no Flyers hockey in 2004-05 because of the lockout...