Fred Shero inducted into the HOF.

[Phillygrump]

No Lindros though.

@DNFlyers: Flyers Stanley Cup-winning coach Fred Shero has been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[jammer2]

@Phillygrump long overdue!!

After the Blues beat us up, Shero changed the way the game was played. He proved you could win and goon it up at the same time.

Edited July 9, 2013 by jammer2

[Lindbergh31]

No Lindros though.

@DNFlyers: Flyers Stanley Cup-winning coach Fred Shero has been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Long time overdue, some of his ideas when it came to coaching were ahead of his time. Glad to see him in the hall.

[Clarke2Leach]

It took way too long, but I'm happy he's finally in there - totally deserving.

[EDI-Flyer]

Fantastic to see him finally get the recognition he deserved...

[Phlyer1]

@Phillygrump long overdue!!

After the Blues beat us up, Shero changed the way the game was played. He proved you could win and goon it up at the same time.

Actually it was Snider who tired of the beatings the Flyers enured and he elected to get tough guys but they were also tough guys who could play the game. Great news to hear.

[jammer2]

@Phlyer1 Ah yes, Freddie was just the benefactor of Snider's demands. Coming back to me now.

[radoran]

@Phlyer1 Ah yes, Freddie was just the benefactor of Snider's demands. Coming back to me now.

Whatever good happens, it's Mister Snider. Whatever bad happens, it's someone else. Except Bryzgalov. Or something.

Shero did what the great coaches do - he took the advantages given to him in the rulebook and took them as far as possible, even just over the line, in pursuit of winning.

Bowman did it with the "left wing lock" as did the Devils and the "trap" (very similar...).

Coaches know the NHL rulebook is more like a list of guidelines and that little of it is actually called as written.

The best ones use that knowledge against the rest of the league.

Glad the Fog finally rolled in at the Hall.

[TedZep]

I just swung by to pay my respects: Congratulations Coach!

[doom88]

Ridiculous it took a two time champion over 25 years to get in the hall. Kind of like Art Modell in the NFL, and the whole tv thing...kind of made them the multibillion dollar industry they are today

[mojo1917]

Well deserved and about friggin' time.

[hf101]

First coach to use video tape.

First coach to have a morning skate.

First coach to emphasize off season training.

Shero was a true innovator to the game, a shame really that he could not have been inducted while he was alive.

[jammer2]

@hf101 He was way ahead of the curve with a lot of things. He also implemented a lot of forechecking techniques that were unheard of at the time. A lot of people think of him as the guy who coached the goons...but his track record as an innovator is well documented.

[EDI-Flyer]

For anyone interested in learning more about the early origins of the Flyers and their evolution under Shero I can thoroughly recommend Score! by Gene Hart. http://www.amazon.com/Score-Twenty-Five-Years-Street-Bullies/dp/0929387171/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373450754&sr=8-1&keywords=Score%21+Gene+Hart

A tremendous read and well worth the $.

[yave1964]

Shero was an amazing coach who deserved the recognition by the Hall much sooner. His trip to the Soviet Union to study Russian Hockey style when everyone else involved in the game derided the Soviets was monumental, he revolutionized the game, team toughness had been around forever but he took that to another level and his Flyers became the first expansion team to win a cup, they liked it so much that they did it again.

He went to another cup finals and lost to Montreal, then in 1979 he took his New York Rangers to a finals and lost as well. One hell of a coach who lived and breathed hockey. Well deserving.

What kept him out for so long is three fold

The Bullies persona that his team had, as if fighting was the only reason they won two cups.

His alcoholism

His reputation as a flake, even his nickname worked against him

A brilliant man. If I had a chance to sit down for dinner with any person from Hockey's history and discuss the game he would be on my short list of people. Congratulations to 'The Fog' and his family. Well deserved.

[sarsippius]

Two Cups, beat the best team in the world in '76, brilliant innovator. It's about time.