Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style Flyers, like many other teams playing in the league today, built their offense around the 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...