Fred Shero
Fred Shero Alexander ( born October 26, 1925 in Winnipeg, Manitoba; † 24 November 1990) was a Canadian ice hockey player (defender) and coach, who played from 1947 to 1950 for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League and from 1971 to 1981, the Philadelphia flyers and New York Rangers trained. In 2013 he was honored with induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Career
At a young age Shero had to decide between boxing and hockey. He decided against a career as a boxer and played for the New York Rovers of the Eastern Hockey League.
In the 1947/48 season he played mostly with the St. Paul Saints in the United States Hockey League, but was also in 19 games in the squad of the New York Rangers. In the next two seasons, he had a regular place at Rangers. He played one year for the Cincinnati Mohawks in the American Hockey League and for the Seattle Ironmen in the Pacific Coast Hockey League before it for four years back had a longer-term team in the AHL with the Cleveland Barons. After two years with the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League and one year with the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts in the Quebec Hockey League, he ended his active career in 1958.
Immediately thereafter, he began his second career as a coach. His first stops were the Moose Jaw Canucks of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, the St. Paul Saints, which is now played in the International Hockey League and the St. Paul Rangers in the Central Professional Hockey League. From 1967, he coached the Buffalo Bisons in the AHL, with whom he in his third season the Calder Cup won. He changed immediately afterwards in the Central Hockey League with the Omaha Knights and brought immediately to the Adams Cup.
After so many successes, the NHL became aware of him and from the 1971/72 season he was behind the band of the Philadelphia Flyers. His team, which was also called the " Broad Street Bullies " played very physical. So they managed to hold out against the Original Six teams. In the 1973/74 season the Flyers were the enlargement of the NHL in 1967, the first new team that could win the Stanley Cup. Shero received this year was also the first of the newly introduced Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. The following year, the team at Bobby Clarke defended under Sheros directed the title.
For the 1978/79 season he became a coach and general manager of the New York Rangers, which he led in his first year in the Stanley Cup Finals. After a weak start in his third season, he was replaced before the end of the season Craig Patrick.
In the following years he worked primarily in radio and television in the environment of the New Jersey Devils. He interrupted this task for a short coach Engagement in the Netherlands. In 1990, he died of stomach cancer.
His son Ray Shero is active in hockey management. In 2006, he broke Craig Patrick, the man who inherited his father at Rangers, as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins from.
NHL stats
Sporting successes
- Calder Cup: 1953 and 1954 ( as a player ); 1970 ( as coach )
- Adams Cup - CHL: 1971 (as coach )
- Stanley Cup: 1974 and 1975 (as coach )
Personal Awards
- EAHL First All -Star Team: 1947
- AHL Second All-Star Team: 1954
- Louis A. R. Pieri Award: 1970
- Jake Milford Trophy: 1971
- Jack Adams Award: 1974
- Lester Patrick Trophy: 1980
- Participate in the NHL All-Star Game: 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978 ( as coach )
- Inclusion in the Hockey Hall of Fame: 2013