TORONTO – When the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto inducts its class of 2013 on November 11, one of the most innovative but misunderstood figures in the sport’s history will take his place among the game’s greatest builders. Nicknamed “the Fog,” the late Fred Shero, who passed away in 1990 at the age of 65, was a study in contradictions.

A studious, bespectacled and shy man who preferred to communicate with players via written messages rather than verbally, Shero was often reviled in the hockey world as a purveyor of “goon tactics.” In reality, this image obscured the fact that the two-time Stanley Cup winning coach possessed one of the sport’s most progressive-thinking minds.

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