Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changed the image and style of the Flyers is Coach Pat Quinn, 36, who last January inherited a dispirited team holed up in the cellar of the Patrick Division and dreaming of past victories. Though he had played a plodding but physical game of hockey in his own nine-year career as a defenseman-he is best remembered for leveling Boston Superstar Bobby Orr in 1970-Quinn turned the team toward more Soviet-style passing and skating. Says he: "Some people are amazed that I can coach a system like this. Well, just because I couldn't play...
...simple tactic of stationing a man in front of the net and trying to force the puck to him through the melee after digging it out of the corners. The attack was as static as it was predictable: players stuck to their assigned roles instead of improvising. Under Quinn's system the forwards bring the puck up the ice, crisscrossing like the Soviets as they come, and defensemen, spotting an opportunity, may join in the attack...