Word: sheroes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Underlying the Soviet strength are stamina and disciplined play. "What they have over the N.H.L. is precision passing," says Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero. "It comes from playing with the same teammates even in off-rink sports like soccer and basketball." Hockey conditioning begins with six weeks of dryland training before players ever step on the ice, including such grueling exercises as handling sticks with 20-lb. weights. Pulse rates are monitored to check whether athletes are putting...
...Philadelphia team, which began the final game with the good-luck singing of Kate Smith (the Flyers have a record of 43-3-1 after her performances of God Bless America before home games), protected its league championship with a 4-to-l victory. Said Flyer Coach Fred Shero, with obvious relief: "Nobody had better take the Islanders for granted next season...
...Shero still faces the most important part of this season: the finals against high-scoring Buffalo, which will be the N.H.L.'s first championship series between two expansion teams. Fired along by the shooting punch of its "French Connection" line-Center Gilbert Perreault and Wingers Rene Robert and Richard Martin-Buffalo reached the finals by humiliating the Montreal Canadiens four games to two. The outcome of the Flyers-Sabres series, which opened last week with a 4-to-l Flyers victory, should boil down to how well Goalie Bernie Parent and Philadelphia's hard-checking defense contain...
Hockey [Feb. 24] is a sport of grace and finesse-a flowing, whirling, incredibly fast spectacle of great beauty and only occasional explosions of violence. Fred Shero and his bush-league bullies are perverting this finest of games and transforming it into a scene of bloody brutality and mindless pugilism more suitable to the ancient Roman arena...
Hail Nero Shero...