Don Cherry
| Don Cherry | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Don Cherry pictured at the CBC Winter Launch in 2010 | |||
| Born |
February 5, 1934 Kingston, Ontario, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
| 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 | ||
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.
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 appeared to suggest Canadian immigrants did not adequately show support for Canadian veterans by purchasing a poppy on Remembrance Day,[4] though he later clarified he was referring to all Canadians.[5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Don Cherry: Canadian hockey pundit fired for poppy rant". BBC News. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
- ↑ "The Don Cherry Lexicon". CBC. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ↑ "Don Stewart Cherry". The Hockey Hall of Fame. 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.
- ↑ Temming, Stan (2019-11-13). "Don Cherry explains what he meant by 'you people' in poppy rant". Yahoo Sports. Archived from the original on 2025-12-06. Retrieved 2026-03-05.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
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- 1934 births
- Living people
- Boston Bruins coaches
- Boston Bruins players
- Canadian ice hockey coaches
- Canadian ice hockey defencemen
- Central Professional Hockey League players
- Hershey Bears players
- Ice hockey people from Ontario
- Jack Adams Award winners
- National Hockey League broadcasters
- Ontario Hockey League players
- Sportspeople from Kingston, Ontario
- Rochester Americans players
- Sports commentators
- Springfield Indians players
- Windsor Spitfires players