When someone who was always called a kook starts to be called an innovator, it means he’s not very innovative anymore.

— Fred Shero

Yesterday’s posthumous selection of Fred Shero for the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto took decades to happen. Shero was an iconoclast — a soft-spoken and often shy one — whose approach to hockey coaching and hockey strategy often ran counter to the convention

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