don cherry coach s corner summary april here s a summary of don cherry s coach s corner from april it was taken from a tape delay of a vancouver winnipeg game but it was filmed during the toronto detroit game that night i think it was also shown during the calgary la game warning anti fighting people may want to skip this post topics don s tie doug gilmour wings leafs quebec montreal boston buffalo wendel clark fighting and stickwork episode summary once again the episode started with a shot of don s tie this was a different tie than last time don pointed out some of the characters on the tie but gave them different names felix the cat sylverster maclean daffy duck etc ron maclean asked don what he thought of the current wings leafs game don thought it was good burns told the leaf players they won in their building we re going to win in ours don then began to praise gilmour again don pointed out that gilmour has never got less than points or a goal in any game since he got points in a game against st louis don also claims that he gave a lot of encouragement to gilmour which was partly responsible for his good play several clips were then shown of gilmour from the series a hit on constantinov and a pass to andrewchuk resulting in a goal on the game itself the wings were taking a lot of penalties in the first period the wings have enough talent to score short handed however and when the leafs get a power play coach burns tells the leaf players don t let them score on you ron brought up the previous quebec montreal game note montreal won that game in overtime despite having a possible game winner disqualified because it was batted in with a high stick don thought the high stick was obvious even without the use of instant replay on the buffalo boston series note buffalo is currently winning the series don gave full credit to goaltender grant fuhr fuhr should be getting the team s playoff checks for his play wendel clarke has recently been criticized for his performance during the detroit toronto series don defended him by saying that he can t play the way he should because of the league s new rules this used to be a rough and tough league now its all hack and slash don lays the blame on gil stien for the problems don s opinions on fighting and stickwork are shared by wings gm and coach bryan murray a clip from a news conference by murray was shown in which murray made statements claiming the elimination of fighting increases stickwork don also read a newspaper article in which murray makes the following statements players don t fight because they re afraid of getting thrown out of the game as instigator instead they settle grudges by getting their sticks and slicing each other is this what the fans want to see i guarantee there wouldn t be as many slashes if fighting were kept in the game don warned league commisioner gary bettman to smarten up with fighting in hockey he went on to say that before there used to be one guy cut with a high stick in a series now with no fights someone gets cut every period rating typical anti fighting posturing but here don s opinion is supported by murray i d give it a out of
