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  A Month of Hockey Quotes
In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
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  Don Cherry (hockey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don Cherry was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Cherry is the part-owner and the former coach of the Ontario Hockey League's Mississauga IceDogs.
Cherry has a strong dislike of the "European style" of hockey, and has often insulted French Canadian hockey players on his show, blaming them for bringing diving, high-sticking and the introduction of visors into the league, while taking the jobs of "good-old Canadian boys."[7] On the subject of visors, Cherry is particularly outspoken.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Cherry_(hockey)   (1996 words)

  
 Don Cherry | NHL Hockey Coach and Commentator
Don Cherry is known as one of the most controversial hockey commentators as well as an excellent hockey coach.
Cherry played his early hockey as a defenseman with the junior Windsor Spitfires and the Barrie Flyers.
In a special poll, Don Cherry was honoured by his fans by being voted as one of the top ten "great" Canadians.
www.canada-heros.com /cherry_don.html   (310 words)

  
 Celebrity1000.com - Your Ultimate Entertainment Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Born in Kingston, Ontario, Don Cherry entered the sport of Hockey during the time when the "Great's" were flying across the ice and into the hearts of fans.
During this time, Cherry played for the eastern league, then the western league, was sent to the American league and finally to small-town Canada.
Cherry quickly became a favorite of fans for his straight talking analysis of games and has become a well known figure in Canada.
www.celebrity1000.com /celebritysites/male/doncherry   (358 words)

  
 Don Cherry News
Don Cherry refuses to be predictable by George Gross Controversy has followed Cherry all the way into the television booth.
Don Cherry, once voted the 7th Greatest Canadian and deemed by the National Post to have the most beautiful mind in the country, had opted against tossing his hat and high-collared...
Don Cherry has joined a large group of NHL players in condemning Dick Pound's assertion that as many as one-third of players in the league use performance-enhancing drugs.
www.topix.net /who/don-cherry   (629 words)

  
 VH1.com : Don Cherry : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
Coleman and Cherry's elastic relationship to pitch and swing-time were certainly a liberation from the tyranny of equal temperament and literal pulse.
Cherry was not gifted with extraordinary chops, but those are classicist concerns, and his was a wholly romantic art.
Cherry's greatest strength was less easily quantified, less tangible: an ability to convey emotional depth via a subtle manipulation of musical elements.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/cherry_don_1_/bio.jhtml   (928 words)

  
 NSHL - Don Cherry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Don played in 16 professional seasons, most notably with the Rochester Americans, the team he would first coach before becoming a famous NHL coach.
Don was hired in 1974 as the Bruins coach, and quickly became a fan favorite in Boston.
Don, who's wife Rose and Yorkshire Terrier named Blue are almost as equally as famous, also has done numerous TV ads, video releases and book deals.
www.nshl.com /hall/cherry.html   (436 words)

  
 Don Cherry
Don Cherry is the name of more than one notable person.
Don Cherry (hockey) for the hockey coach and commentator, born 1934
Don Cherry (jazz) for the jazz trumpeter, 1936-1995
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Don_Cherry.html   (74 words)

  
 Don Cherry Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
Don Cherry is not only a hockey icon; he's a national treasure.
Cherry's wildly popular "Coach's Corner" on Hockey Night in Canada, co-hosted with Ron MacLean, is often the most watched segment on the CBC and is a mainstay of Saturday night television.
Don Cherry's live appearences bring all of the energy, humour and fun of "Coach's Corner" to major corporate and association events.
www.thelavinagency.com /canada/doncherry.html   (381 words)

  
 Don Cherry
Born in Kingston, Ontario, Don Cherry entered the sport of Hockey during the time when the "Great's" were flying across the ice and into the hearts of fans.
During this time, Cherry played for the eastern league, then the western league, was sent to the American league and finally to small-town Canada.
Don Cherry was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
www.lycos.com /info/don-cherry--hockey.html   (575 words)

  
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Don was furious at the CHA for airing those controversial television ads that have shocked the hockey world.
Don's rise to the NHL was an arduous one.
While Don often comes under fire for being controversial, he is unwavering in his believes, his support of Canada, and the game of hockey he grew up with.
canadianhockeyparents.com /don_cherry.htm   (783 words)

  
 Don Cherry ..Leaving Hockey???? - Lotto 649 Lottery Forums
Don Cherry, right, has not yet reached contract terms with the CBC for next season.
Since news broke that Cherry might not return to Hockey Night in Canada, the CBC has received hundreds of emails, the vast majority of them demanding that Cherry be brought back next season.
Cherry will be back next year if there is hockey, and he will even get a big fat raise on top of it.
www.lotto649.ws /anything-goes/3575-don-cherry-leaving-hockey.html   (988 words)

  
 Hockey Don Cherry Biography for Hockey Fight Fans
Hockey Don Cherry was born in Kingston, Ontario and he played junior hockey for the Windsor Spitfires.
Hockey Don Cherry moved forward and he made it all the way to the NHL.
The Don Cherry biography 'A Vintage View of Hockey' is one of the best books I've ever read and it's loved by fans all over the world.
www.hockeytribute.com /don-cherry.shtml   (485 words)

  
 CPF-BC & Yukon Up-Date on CBC, Don Cherry and Hockey Night in Canada
Cherry is an extremely talented communicator who does not need to denigrate other groups to be entertaining or informative.
He is the most prominent hockey commentator in a country fascinated by the game.
We are asking Don Cherry to change his approach and not make derogatory comments toward French Canadians or others.
cpf.bc.ca /bc_html/PressRel_2004/FramePages/f_prCherryUpd.shtml   (406 words)

  
 Don Cherry Web Page
As a teenager, he played hockey for the Barrie Flyers and in 1955, he played one playoff game with the Boston Bruins.
Cherry's Bruins finished first in their division four seasons in a row and he was the NHL Coach of the Year in the 1975-76 season.
Cherry was the fastest to coach in NHL history to reach the 250 win plateau and ranks fifth in winning percentage among coaches with more than 400 games behind the bench.
www.g2creations.qc.ca /powerplay/stars/cherry.html   (316 words)

  
 Teal Sunglasses: Don Cherry and the CBC....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Cherry supporters are screaming about censorship, and how dare the CBC tell Don Cherry to tone it down.
Me, as a long-time fan of Don Cherry, I can only say that his act has worn very thin the last few years, to the point where I just don't find him very interesting or informative any more.
But the hockey that Cherry wants to bring back to the NHL went away long ago, and honestly, all I can say is -- good riddance.
www.plaidworks.com /chuqui/blog/001301.html   (769 words)

  
 The Hammer - CBC "Concerned" About Cherry's On-Air Goat Sacrifice
The producers of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada are vowing to "look into" the puzzling and bizarre actions of hockey commentator Don Cherry during last weekend's installment of Coach's Corner.
Cherry then began to hit himself over the head repeatedly with a plastic mallet, all the while telling the nation's children "this is how they should do it."
Finally, Cherry sacrificed a goat on-air, as members from the Toronto chapter of the satanic Temple of Set shouted their encouragement.
www.thehammer.ca /content/2004/0222/don_cherry.html   (703 words)

  
 CBC Sports Online - Coach's Corner
Don lends his unwavering support to Wayne Gretzky.
Don thinks Paul Henderson should be in the Hall of Fame, and reminds us not to forget about Remembrance Day.
Don says teams that run up the score are asking for trouble and calls Carolina's Eric Staal the next superstar.
www.cbc.ca /sports/hockey/hnic/coach.html   (755 words)

  
 LCS Hockey - Don Cherry: A Decade of Fighting, Beer, and Pretzels
Don Cherry: A Decade of Fighting, Beer, and Pretzels
Don Cherry kicks a hole in the TV screens of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada viewers every Saturday night.
And for the last decade, he has put out an annual hockey video tape to try to grab the folks smart enough to normally give his intermission show, Coach's Corner, a miss.
www.lcshockey.com /issues/111/111cherr.asp   (421 words)

  
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 SI.com - Writers - Michael Farber: CBC's delay on Coach's Corner is a copout - Sunday February 8, 2004 1:09AM
Cherry implied that players who wore them lacked courage -- he said that they might be viewed as "sucks" -- and noted that it was mostly European players and "French guys" who had donned shields.
Either the players or Canada is inured to Cherry's act, or there is a sizable part of the population that agrees with him.
In the worst of all possible compromises, the network took a wimpy, political approach to the problem that is both an insult to Cherry and to the audience of hockey's flagship program.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/writers/michael_farber/02/07/cherry   (752 words)

  
 CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Hockey - NHL: Cherry exact same guy on and off camera
Cherry is going to talk to a bunch of construction guys but not all of them will be the hard-hat, lunch-bucket type of guys.
I remember he told me in the prospects game in Kitchener 'I'm going to make the National Hockey League and I'm going to be effective.' He's a hitter and a banger and he's got a rocket shot.
Cherry is the voice of hockey in Canada.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Hockey/NHL/2006/02/06/1428267-sun.html   (843 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - Politics: Don Cherry shows up in Commons
Cherry, who sat in the visiting dignitaries gallery during the daily question period, was befuddled by the protest.
Cherry said the hollering and histrionics of question period reminded him of his Coach's Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada.
Cherry, who was uncharacteristically clad in a subdued suit and tie, suggested he could not afford a shift to politics.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Politics/2006/11/07/2265775-cp.html   (529 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NHL - Report: CBC 'censors' Cherry by erasing debate from site
For Don Cherry, apparently not all speech is free.
During the debate, Cherry apologized on behalf of Canadians, saying that "years of pride went down the drain" with the Canadiens fans' behavior.
But the fact that neither MacLean nor Cherry were disciplined for their exchange seemed to irk others within the news organization.
espn.go.com /nhl/news/2003/0404/1533887.html   (752 words)

  
 Prominant hockey analyst Don Cherry called the potential decision "sad". | SportsFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Hockey karma is at an all time low.
Hockey is probably the most expensive sport you can play as a child (among the common and popular sports).
Besides, kids at that age should be playing street hockey and developing their eye/hand co-ordination by trying to stick-handle a bouncing tennis ball.
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 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The end of Don Cherry on the CBC -- if the sources who spoke to my colleague Gayle MacDonald this week are correct and this is, indeed, the end -- fills me with sorrow.
Cherry told Rome the CBC was "awful upset" about his and Ron...
Cherry, wearing a tie emblazoned with U.S. colors, apologized on behalf of Canadians, saying that "years of pride went down the drain" with...
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 CBC re-signs Don Cherry - Hockey Critic
Hockey fans in Canada (and across the world) may find themselves without NHL hockey next season, but may rest assured that hockey commentator Don Cherry will be back on Hockey Night in Canada.
Many will recall that we went through a worse ordeal two years ago when CBC came to its grips just in time to sign the other half of the show, Ron McLean.
The 70 year old Cherry has had a pretty tumultuous relationship with the CBC and will most likely still operate with a 7 second delay to keep the censors happy.
www.hockeycritic.com /item/62   (107 words)

  
 RSS Hockey - Steve Shickles
COLUMBUS, Ohio - On the night NHL Entry Draft history was made when Americans went 1-2 for the first time, the Rangers may well have come away with the steal of the first round by reaching across the ocean to Russia to grab consensus top-five pick Alexei Cherepanov 17th overall.
During the second intermission in last nights Stanley Cup Finals, Don Cherry makes his NBC debut and talks about fighting in the NHL with Brett Hull.
The longest overtime game in NHL history was played on March 24, 1936, when Detroit needed 116:30 of extra time to beat the Montreal Maroons 1-0.
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 Inside the CHL features David Branch and Don Cherry
The show can be accessed at www.chl.ca and will also be available for CHL teams to use as an intermission feature on their local radio broadcasts, with a new show available every two weeks for the 2001-2002 season.
Cherry was a guest on the first show and he gives an update on his IceDogs, who continue to struggle in the OHL standings, even with the most famous coach in Canada behind the bench.
The National Hockey League teams will select the forty players that will participate in this classic event, with the first series of players to be announced early next month.
www.chl.ca /CHLNews0102/1116_daily.html   (1138 words)

  
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Don Cherry, (accompanied by his dog, Blue) has assembled some of the funniest moments in hockey...
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 Ron Mclean Sports Broadcaster, Don Cherry, Hockey
Ron MacLean is best known for his role on Coach’s Corner, with the ever-controversial Don Cherry.
In high school, he assumed the midnight newscaster job on Friday and Saturday nights, and was promoted to disc jockey at the station.
In 1984, a hockey producer (John Shannon, former executive producer of HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA) saw MacLean doing an ad-lib weather forecast and hired him to host the Calgary Flames telecasts on CFAC, an independent TV station in Calgary.
www.corporateentertainers.ca /ronmaclean.htm   (277 words)

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