Don Cherry
Donald Stewart Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian former[1] ice hockey commentator. He is also a sports writer, as well as a retired professional hockey player and National Hockey League (NHL) coach.
| Don Cherry | |
|---|---|
| File:Don Cherry in 2010.jpg Don Cherry pictured at the CBC Winter Launch in 2010 | |
| Born | 5 February 1934
(aged 91) |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb) |
| Position | Defence |
| Shot | Left |
| Played for | Hershey Bears Boston Bruins Springfield Indians Rochester Americans Vancouver Canucks (WHL) |
| Playing career | 1954–1972 |
In 2004, Cherry was voted by viewers as the seventh-greatest Canadian of all-time in the CBC miniseries The Greatest Canadian.
Cherry played one game with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five seasons.
From 1986 to 2019, Cherry co-hosted Coach's Corner—a segment aired during CBC's Saturday-night NHL broadcast Hockey Night in Canada.[2][3]
In November 2019, Cherry was fired by Sportsnet from Hockey Night in Canada for comments that suggested Canadian immigrants liked military veterans dying and benefited from it.[4]
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Cherry was inducted into the American Hockey League Hall of Fame in 2019.
- Cherry Maclean.jpg
Cherry with Ron MacLean at the 2002 Winter Olympics. The two were partnered on Coach's Corner from 1986 to 2019.
References
- ↑ "Don Cherry: Canadian hockey pundit fired for poppy rant". BBC News. 11 November 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50241256. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
- ↑ "The Don Cherry Lexicon". CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/doncherry/stories/lexicon.html. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ↑ "Don Stewart Cherry". The Hockey Hall of Fame. http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=12256. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
- ↑ "'I don't regret a thing': Don Cherry speaks out on his firing and Ron MacLean | CTV News". www.ctvnews.ca. 11 November 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
Other websites
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or ESPN.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
