Fred Shero

Position	Defense
Shot	Left
Nickname(s)	The Fog
Height Weight	ft  in ( m) 185 lb (84 kg)
Pro Clubs	New York Rangers
Nationality	Canada
Born	October 23 1925(1925--), Winnipeg, MB, CAN
Died	November 24 1990 (aged 65),
Pro Career	1947 – 1958

Fred Shero (October 23, 1925 - November 24, 1990) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach.

Playing career

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he attended the University of Manitoba and served in the Royal Canadian Navy in World War II. In 1945, he played for the navy team at HMCS Chippawa in Winnipeg, the Basil Baker Trophy winners. He played three seasons (1947-48, 1948-49, and 1949-50) with the New York Rangers.

Coaching career

He was the coach of the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers. He was the coach of the Flyers when they won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975. Through the start of the 2007-08 NHL season, he remains the winningest coach in Flyers history with 308 wins, plus 48 more in playoff competition. He was the coach of the New York Rangers when they reached the Stanley Cup Finals in 1979.

In 1974, he won the Jack Adams Award for NHL Coach of the Year. In 1980, he was a co-recipient of the Lester Patrick Trophy awarded for outstanding service to hockey in the United States.

Before leading his team to a clinching Game 6 victory in the 1974 Stanley Cup final, the teams first-ever Stanley Cup, Fred Shero wrote his most famous motivational line on the team's blackboard: "Win together today, and we walk together forever."

Trivia

In a 1999 Philadelphia Daily News poll, he was selected as the city’s greatest professional coach/manager, beating out legends such as Connie Mack of MLB Philadelphia Athletics, Dallas Green of MLB Philadelphia Phillies, Dick Vermeil and Greasy Neale of the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, and Billy Cunningham and Alex Hannum of the NBA Philadelphia 76ers.

His son Ray Shero serves as the general manager for the cross-state rival Pittsburgh Penguins.

See also

• Notable families in the NHL

External links

• Stats at HockeyDB
• Flyers Hall of Fame bio
• Hockey Smarts Runs in Shero Family from NHL.com Retrieved 7 Aug 2006.

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