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Philadelphia Flyers Coach Fred Shero has a simple formula for hockey games: "If you keep the opposition on their asses," he says, "they don't score goals." Since the opening face-off of the season, the Flyers have executed that rough-and-tumble philosophy with savage enthusiasm, sending opponents sprawling across the ice at every opportunity. The tactic has worked: the Flyers finished with the second-best record in the National Hockey League and last week became the first expansion team in the league to play as a serious contender in the Stanley Cup finals...
...times makes hockey resemble a roller derby or pro wrestling with his wild punching sprees. Against the N.Y. Rangers in a semifinal Stanley Cup game, Schultz slugged Brad Park four times while the Ranger defenseman was pinned to the ice by officials trying to stop the fight. Coach Shero applauds such tough tactics: "Speed, skill and strength make a hockey player," says Shero. "Schultz realizes he does not have speed or skill, so what is he here for? To beat up the other...
...Coach Shero, "The Broad Street Bullies" are an extension of his own Darwinian ideas. Explains the former Ranger defenseman: "In professional sport, the strong survive and the weak fall by the wayside." To keep his players tough, Shero does not smother them with compliments when they play well. "That's just the way I am," he says. "I told my wife 'I love you' once, and that was the day we were married...