TORONTO - Over the past 31 years, in a business
in which 15 minutes of fame is often all you get, Don Cherry has probably lost
count of the number of times somebody wanted him fired.
If it wasn’t his own bosses or the more cerebral and
dainty CBC upper management types, it was politicians in Quebec, or upset
hockey executives, or angry European players, or Brian Burke, or somebody he
tripped over who just didn’t like his inventive use of language.
But soon, his own people at CBC Sports may be faced with a
most difficult decision. Soon, as negotiations to renew Hockey Night In
Canada’s contract with the National Hockey League commence, a determination on
the future of Cherry and the ever-popular Coach’s Corner segment will have to
be made.
It may, in fact, be forced. More…
Shacks’
Take: Regardless of what some
bloggers and writers may think and despite his bombastic and meandering ways,
Don Cherry knows more about hockey than any three of us in a room. He’s been right about how rule changes would
affect the game consistently and he’s amusing as hell. Neither the NHL nor Brian Burke should have
anything to do with his retirement from hockey and the CBC. When the Canadian people don’t want to hear
what Don has to say anymore or when the Don is done talking that’s when Coach’s
Corner should end. Not a second before.
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