re don cherry help me out here in article mfpirbo wbli ispc andrew cmu edu william k willis ww a andrew cmu edu writes as a person who has rarely even seen don cherry and doesn t know anything about him i don t know whether it is just this area pittsburgh of the usa that is deprived of his broadcasts or whether he s a canadian thing altogether seriously what is he all about i he s a canadian thing former coach of the boston bruins and colorado rockies from the summaries that get posted i gather that his ongoing beef this year has been the conventional wisdom that canadian hockey is doomed to be second or third rate behind the perceived emergence of the u s and european programs know he was a coach at one time and from the volume of posts about him someone surely is getting a steady diet of him somehow but my question is what is the deal with him secondly are the comments of his that i after he left the rockies he got a job with cbc s hockey night in canada and hasn t looked back since actually he did work for cbc at least on playoff season after the rockies were eliminated read about on the net merely flame bait or do people actually take him seriously i gotta tell you from what i see he really sounds like an i d say it s a combination of flame bait and serious journalism the closest thing you ll find to cherry in the u s is stan fischler a self described hockey maven the similarities are that they both say things that get people upset the difference is that cherry knows the game and fischler doesn t ass let me know maybe i m missing something don s a character if he were completely rational and noncontroversial he wouldn t have a job by some definitions he could be called an ass but then some people feel the same about mike lang another character that i wish would get wider exposure only one national telecast last year mike eisler mre eng sun com not only are they leafs the best team but their fans are even more intelligent and insightful than pittsburgh s their players are mighty bright too i mean he really was going to get his wallet back right jan brittenson on leaf pen woofers in rec sport hockey
