3.03.2025 Bobby Clark about Sherro: Much was ahead of time - he was the first to bring assistants, Philadelphia began to play constant links. He studied with the USSR, was there - he and Tarasov were friends,

Bobby Clark said what Fred Sherro was ahead of time. - We began to play complete, constant links. The Soviets began to do this long before Canadians. Philadelphia began to function on the same principle. The five worked together, played together, everyone knew where everyone should be on ice. We trained, trained and trained so that it was easy for us to understand each other, and this has become the norm.
We first saw this in 1972 against the USSR national team, which played that way. They did it differently, but the main principle was just that. Sherro studied with the Soviets, and this paid off for us.
- That is, the head coach began to do this after the super series?
- wait. . . Oh no, I think he tried in the lower leagues. When he first came to Flyerses [in 1971], he began immediately. He had a system, and all the guys followed her, even if not always the same pairs of defenders came out with one or another three attackers. We all knew where there should be attackers or defenders, where anyone had to go. This was the first time in the NHL when we saw this.
- this is very interesting, because even in the Soviet Union, before Viktor Tikhonov, there were only the plays of attacks and pairs of defense, but different forwards could come out with various defenders. And only Tikhonov for the first time in the USSR created the five fetisons - Kasatonov, Makarov - Larionov - Krutov, who always played together.
- Sherro was much ahead of time. He was the first to bring the coach’s assistants. We had two assistants. All that he did was much, much ahead of the rest of the league.
- did he know Soviet hockey at a distance or traveled to the USSR?
- He was there! And they were friends with [Anatoly] Tarasov, they drank a lot together. Both were big drunkards! They smoked, drank and talked about hockey, ”said the former captain of Philadelphia.