Posts About "Don Cherry"
Sour Grapes: Don Cherry Is Biased Against The Maple Leafs
In a not so surprising move, hockey personalty and former NHL coach Don Cherry called out the Toronto Maple Leafs organization on Twitter Tuesday over the treatment of prospect Nazem Kadri. Kadri, 21, was drafted by the Maple Leafs in the first round (seventh overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. At the time he was drafted Kadri...
Dispatches From Planet Hockey: See U In Buffalo Edition
September 26th, 2012 by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor BEGIN DISPATCH::TERRESTRIAL TIMESTAMP NINER-TWO-SIX-NINER-FIVE-SIX-GEE MINUS SIX "We're going to be watching a lot of hockey, come October." That rather optimistic statement came from Phil Housley, one of the coaches who will be standing behind the bench for this year's CCM/USA Hockey...
Lockout Opportunity: Hits to the Head
September 21st, 2012 The NHL has entered its third lockout in as many tries under Mr. Bettman’s commissionership. The fissure, and therefore the dominating storyline, centers on distribution of hockey related revenue, contract term limits, and escrow. In short, finances. The blame game is also taking up a healthy amount of copy. However, unlike the...
Staal or Van Riemsdyk - Who Wins the Fresh Start Challenge?
August 27th, 2012 When the NHL's regular season ended in April, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes looked like very similar teams separated only by two points near the basement of the Eastern Conference. Both squads were expected to make a push for the post season, but alas, both fell well short. So why are the Hurricanes all...
Exploring the CBC's Digital Archives
July 6th, 2012 Is the looming labor dispute making you jaded? Free agency getting you down? Lose an hour or two this off-season in the CBC Digital Archives for Hockey. Lots of great audio and video clips recounting hockey's past from several different angles, with plenty of gems to uncover. A few samples: "I have always given my utmost ..." 1960:...
CBA 2012: The Quotable Labor Dispute
July 1st, 2012 With word that talks have begun- strike that: With word that the two sides in hockey's labor dispute have agreed that in fact they are both in New York City at the same time, here is a selection of quotations from sports labor issues, past and present. Quotations are in chronological order. The best (as in the most stunning) was not...
Get Pat Burns To The Hockey Hall Of Fame!
June 27th, 2012 There is something about a guy who was once a no nonsense cop that became a Stanley Cup winning coach. In between, Pat Burns was unabashed and gruff but he certainly was never dull. The truth is that Coach Burns may not have been the world's best hockey coach but he was something more. This was a guy who was the best...
Playoff Seeding & NHL Analysts: Two Severe Flaws of the NHL
April 10th, 2012 While we were all getting over the arrogant commentary presented over Philadelphia airwaves by NBC hockey analyst, Mike Milbury, other coaches and analysts felt entitled to chime in and bash Sidney Crosbyand the rest of the Pittsburgh Penguins organization. After Brooks Orpik dished out a questionable and dirty knee-on-knee hit to...
Cherries of Wrath! Don Cherry and Other Low Hanging Maple Leafs Fruit
April 4th, 2012 If you’re not Canadian or if you’re not a hockey fan, you may not get Don Cherry. He is a Canadian institution almost more so than the broadcasting corporation that he works for. For 7 ½ minutes every Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada, ‘Grapes’ as he is commonly referred, gets his time in the spotlight. He is a...
Don Cherry Was Wrong This Time
March 5th, 2012 Don Cherry is a legend. As many of our readers know, I have been quick to defend him in the past when people would go crazy over every little thing. We’re too politically correct in this day and age and if people can’t put up with hurt feelings because of someone’s opinion then we have gone entirely too soft in North America....
Kings Write Winning Screenplay Against Senators
January 24th, 2012 It was a pairing of All-Star goalies, as the Ottawa Senators and Los Angeles Kings squared off in L.A. Although it would ultimately be the Kings fourth line, helping to propel the club into first. A game where one could use the names Kyle Clifford and Gordie Howe, in the same sentence. For an inter-conference battle, there was...
Hockey Book Review: Black and Gold
December 26th, 2011 Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs (Revised & Updated). Photography by Steve Babineau. Written by Rob Simpson. (2012, Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. 290. CAN $39.95 / US $34.95. ISBN 978-1-118-17278-0.) When I look at the cover of this book,...
Welcome To Subban Land
November 28th, 2011 The Subban brothers may be the next generation of Staal's or Sutter's, and they should be the flashiest one yet. P.K.'s obviously already established himself as a household name, and although the other Subban's aren't quite there yet, it'll come in time.
