Rogers has not and may not renew the contract of Don Cherry, potentially ending Coach’s Corner after 37-years, per Steve Simmons.
If this is the end, I for one am going to miss our eccentric suit wearing, Canada/Ontario loving, out of touch old man. pic.twitter.com/KxTiAycrve
— Complete Hockey News (@CompleteHkyNews) July 7, 2019
What a difference three years makes.
It looks like Don has been told he won’t be back on HNIC. ROGERS has been hemorrhaging money after acquiring the NHL broadcast and digital rights several years ago. New management at ROGERS is on the stick and clearly willing to part ways with their biggest price tags in favor of fiscal responsibility.
I like it.
ROGERS is a big ship and it takes a while for big ships to do a 180. Firing McCowan, Maclean and Cherry probably represent 3-4 million in salary. Traditionally radio/TV would fire 30 people making 100k, or 100 people making 30k or 200 making 15k.
Getting rid of big tickets in media sounds an alarm company-wide most companies try to avoid in favor of ‘quiet efficiencies.’
Don Cherry is $1,000,000 and the return on investment isn’t there anymore.
When companies downsize they look for two streams of employees to fire:
- Big salaries with lopsided returns, OR
- High maintenance employee’s who don’t play well with others.
Most media companies today don’t go after big salaries that represent their brand until they have to.
Now they have to and that’s smart business whether you like Don Cherry or not.
I admit I will miss watching Ron Maclean slowly lose the will to live whenever Don Cherry says something even your racist grandma wouldn't dare to say at Christmas dinner. pic.twitter.com/VNkJ8P0McY
— Allison Temple (@allitemplebooks) July 7, 2019
Despite their 30 plus year history, Ron and Don aren’t best friends. They’re partners based on history. Victims of old fucking eyeballs that refuse to accept anything new.
We don’t live in that world anymore, thankfully.
If you’re a young aspiring broadcaster, do everything. Start a blog and a podcast. Start three podcast’s and learn to become invaluable in your space. Learn the benefit of work honestly and be better in the hallway then you are on the air.
And before you take a shit on ROGERS, understand there’s only one constant in life.
Change.
People like us prove you can achieve critical mass without spending 4 million on three people and lose millions more forcing something that doesn’t work.
The media landscape has finally achieved digital equilibrium with traditional media and Rogers is locked into a traditional deal they signed YEARS ago. Imagine buying the rights to fax machines, falling asleep for a couple of decades only to wake up in 2019 realizing you can’t sell them anymore.
Tough day for the over 70, crowd and it won’t get any easier. There are a few other companies who are yet to clean house and July/August is traditionally the period we see these changes in media so hold on to your four-hour workday, media people. The digital enema isn’t all the way in there, yet.
And just like that…
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You’re right on the mark Dean! Except that sentence where you used “then” instead of “than”!
Yes Michel. I think you should WAKE UP.
Don will be missed ! I respect what he says, after all, look at the wealth of experience behind him ! All the awards, all those proud years, It isn’t right that he be let go. He said nothing offensive at all! (and in reference to Pres. Trump, there is a LOT of propaganda about him, read his statements or one of his books to learn what he is really like. Patriotic ! and a defender of the constitution like the founding fathers.. all this PC rubbish is sickening !! (right out of mau/stalin’s playbook, wake up folks ! )
What Don Cherry said was right!! I guess the truth hurts!! So you childish minded people that get so hurt so easily is totally ridiculous!! A legend in our country and “85” years old too!! Such disrespect shown to him by firing him!! SHAME on you!!
Grapes is not just on air talent, he is an institution! Firing him in the bullshit way that Rogers did sucks. His comment was not racial in any shape, manner or form. He expressed his opinion and truthfully I agree with him.
His bombast rants are usually much more exciting than the game. If Rogers is bleeding money now, just wait until they see the ratings fall even more with out grapes.
This being politically correct has gone way to far!
The president of the United states is literally a beacon for racism, xenophobia, and divisiveness, who spews toxic rhetoric daily to the masses. Don Cherry told “you people” to buy poppies and was crucified.. doesn’t seem right to me …
I’m with you with regards to Don Cherry…but not about President Donald Trump. President Trump has not said or done anything that you have mentioned. You should try and watch News Now, and Golden State Times…these two bring as much of Presidents Trump, Oval Office meetings..and meetings with all different nationalities. HE has accomplished a lot for All Americans. CNN! NBC! MSNCB (spelling) put a negative spin on any of his accomplishments.
Please give it a try, and then watch the democratic sponsor news outlets, and see for yourself, how they put their own meanings to his words.
Don Cherry is Don Cherry. Trump is a wannabe DICTATOR and wants to be like his IDLE Putti. Make America RUSSIA.
I was disappointed with the firing of Don Cherry.
I’m also disgusted with Canadians, that have nothing better to do in life than try to destroy a persons 38 year career over two words.
What a bunch of wisps at Sportsnet, as well as, Ron MacLean. You have no business apologizing for Don Cherry, you should have supported him. You know that he would have expressed his regrets next Sat. On Coaches Corner. You should have cut him some slack, and not fire him…talk about overkill.
I’m really going to miss him, but not Sportsnet or Ron MacLean.
Canadians, and new Canadians should all honour Veterans on Remebrance Day. Don was just upset that no one could be bother to honour people that died for our freedom.
I hope Don Cherry knows that I and a lot of people support him and wish him all the best.
Political correctness is done to death. Negative people jump on the bandwagon.,,anything to give themselves a platform to mouth off.
The media fosters this negativity because they feel negative stories sells papers. shame on all of you.
Hi Dean thanks for offering to discuss this topic. I understand the hot political environment we live in where every minutia of who we are and every word we say gets hammered in every way possible to stir up a negative twist if possible. Those who know Don on an everyday basis understand he lives in the Mississauga and Brampton community for decades which is about as immigrant dense as any community in Canada or US. You just can’t live and involve yourself here without being extremely supportive of immigrants and embracing of multiculturalism. You can detest Din for his crass behaviour but he says it Ashe sees it. My father who is 86 played with Jean Beliveau and Henri Richard and understood and enjoyed Don’s silly and entertaining ways. My children were raised in Don’s entertaining silly commentary. Don is Special motivating and loved Canadian in our Mississauga. And Brampton community. I’m thoroughly disgusted by the disrespectful treatful of him it’s shameful. Thanks Dean for this forum to express and give my best toJosh.
I have been watching HNIC since I was 5 years old. I am now 63. I will not be watching it any longer. I totally agree with Don Cherry on this. He did not insult any group, religion, faith, or minority with his comments. He crititized people for not not wearing poppies as a show of respect for our veterans who have served and died for our freedom. If you will fire him for that, you will fire millions of fans who agree with him including me, I buy two poppies every year to honour our fallen and anyone who doesn’t should not be allowed to live in this country. HNIC watch your ratings plummet. I am sure I’m not the only one to think like this. I’m nor racist, but I’m definitely Canadian.
How can someone who holds his country’s patriotism so higly be treated so poorly. Shame on all the people involved in his firing.
Folks, educate yourselves, you look stupid. Freedom of speech is not an absolute. That’s why you can’t spread hate literature, for example.
Also, freedom of speech is not guaranteed in the workplace when representing an employer. Nor is a job in the media guaranteed when your views don’t align with your employers.
Perhaps it is you that should educate yourself.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Fundamental Freedoms
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Either you have freedom of expression or you don’t. Legislation is always politically driven, and what was “reasonably acceptable” in 1982, sure as hell isn’t acceptable today, but it should be.
“Hate speech” is the politically correct perversion of “reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” In reality, there is no “hate speech”, without inciting or accompanying violence. We now live in a world where hurt feelings constitute hate.
My father and 4 uncles served in WWII. None of them were delusional enough to buy into the narrative of the war. They understood that wars are for powerful economic interests, nothing more. Many, many years ago, I met a WWII vet who told me that he sure as hell wasn’t fighting to make food banks a growth industry. Was he guilty of hate speech? After all, it’s our politicians who have created the conditions for it and thrown millions of Canadians, including vets, overboard.
I have never bought into Cherry’s “fighting for our way of life” mindset, but he is entitled to his opinion. His dismissal demonstrates the level of decay to which this country has succumbed.
Don has freedom of speech. He can start a blog, podcast etc and rant about politics all he wants to people who want to listen to all the things an old man hates today.
But HNIC is a hockey show, and that’s all I want to hear him talk about… not politics, not pro war propaganda, morality or reading obituaries. It’s a Saturday night Hockey show.
The only mistake Rogers made was not firing all the producers who’ve let him go off script all these years. They created the monster.
I’m with Don Cherry. People should have freedom of speech. Some people may not agree with what he said but that’s how it goes. Not everything someone says is going to go well with everyone. People are bowing down to much to immigrants in this country and they are not the greatest immigrants either. So Don Cherry, if he wants it, should get his job back.
I will not watch hockey on hockey night in Canada again . Don Cherry is all Canadian and firing him was wrong. people took what he said to personal , i think he was saying everybody should wear a poppy and that is all. he is so proud of our Canadians who gave us our freedom.
Of all the groups mentioned that have been hurt, Don Cherry criticized none of them. He criticized people who didn’t respect the poppy. The great irony here is that the people who died defending free speech, are now seeing from their graves, the death knell of freedom of speech, which is quickly followed by loss of all freedoms, the very thing our fathers and uncles and sons and daughters died to protect. That’s why you have an over 70 crowd kiddo, to remind people that freedom is worth dying for. God’s speed all
whose the bigger offender ?? Our black face prime minister or don cherry.
Neither one is an offender.
Many Canadians, young old or otherwise, don’t understand that we have fathers, grandfathers or brothers that died or worse, came home, after the war with a multitude of challenges. They are thinking that they are all gone and who cares! Having said that, the funding from the poppy sales goes to support all of the military associated legions, monuments and/or in some cases hospitals programmes or overheads across the country. These funds support the ability of all the associated members to honor and remember those who fought for the insurance of our way of life here at home. Lest We Forget
P.S. 8th generation with a history of many military heros
So you absolutely support idiot Don Cherry when he wanted to send our boys to Iraq with Bush in 2002 and called out our country for not doing so? Where the hell was Don when Harper was hacking away at Vet benefits and closing offices (no photo op there). Why do you not know that the Legion is not an exclusive military/RCMP club any more and its support of veterans is almost intangible now (I quit the Legion over it)? Do you actually know anything about Canada’s participation in the World Wars beyond your little story? What about the Boer War, too far back to bother with? Do you actually know how long 8 generations is? Longer than Canada has existed, much longer than any Canadian Armed Forces has existed. Do you take a moment to express private regret for our war crimes. Yes, Canada did have a single war crime event in 1944 in Holland, no we weren’t charge but we were investigated, luckily we were on the winning side.
I am so tired of the self-righteous thinking that military service, especially in the past, was valiant. I served, my father was a 30 year man, and I have a degree in Canadian Military History. I am damn proud of Canada. A country of 10 million people that carried the weight of countries with 5 or 6 times our population. WE carried a beach at Normandy and yet France got the seat on the Security Council.
The historians still care and remember, but they remember things a lot differently than you. They know those kids didn’t have a clue what they were getting into. They knew the fought with the bravery of the innocent. They know that Canada’s wars usually were a result of the foreign policy of the US or Britain (only WWII was a “clear” war). I know all this and I still wear a poppy and fly a Lest We Forget flag and the moment I feel like I am being forced to, I will stop.
I don’t need Chicken Hawk Cherry or your fantasies to remember the wars, but the two of you still have a lot to learn about them apparently. Even if i believed you (I don’t), your stance is ridiculous. It is comical that you call out people for exercising a choice and then talk about freedom.
You are not a Canadian if you don’t understand what Don is saying .what he is telling people is to support our troops .What you are saying it is alright not to wear a poppy I am on Dons side all the way Give your Head a shake and think about what you have Done.
V
On Dons’ side of understanding the respect the honoring and remembering our foundation of freedom as well!
I hope the day never comes when Canada has to stand up and defend its values. One citizen is chastised for using the freedom that was afforded by the generation before him. What makes anyone today think that as a country we have the guts or backbone to defend anything? Imagine, a country of hurt feelings and sensitive egos? Get over yourselves Canada, buy a poppy.
Ditto!
Don Cherry never said IMMIGRANTS so stop the horrible accusations towards him!! Immigrants come over here and think they can tell us what to do.!! Who do think we are!! SICK!!! Grow up and get over such sicko hurt feelings!! It is absolutely childish and you all need baby food!! I hope you loose lots of money Rogers!!
The man tells it the way it is
Where is super Fan , He is Canadian and has millions of followers, support the truth
Cherry can go be an advisor to Trump…
Shame on you…..
Freedom was given to us on this Day nov. 11. Freedom is not free. many died so Don Cherry and many others have freedom of speech. Anyone who can’t understand that, is not Canadian.
The Government of Canada needs to step up.
your spot on
Freedom was given to us on this Day nov. 11. Freedom is not free. many died so Don Cherry and many others have freedom of speech. Anyone who can’t understand that, is not Canadian.
Amen
Recognizing virtually every Canadian comes from a Family Tree that at one time – upon coming to Canada (like mine escaping the Famines of 1840’s Ireland) – my Great Grandfather
was considered “you people” by many. For many years Irish Canadians were despised by many. Thankfully, those days are in the rear view mirror.
I am a very proud 4th generation Canadian of Irish ancestry but Canadian first.
Don Cherry’s comments on Saturday night crossed a line for which is deserving of dismissal.
Finally, someone with intelligence here.
Let cherry apologize, he did not say the word immigrant did he.He meant people in general anyone not wearing a poppy !
Exactly!
Let’s be honest…he wasnt referring to Irish immigrants like himself….just “other immigrants “ which is what makes his statements racist.
He doesn’t want to apologize.
its true! everything Don said! these people who come to Canada, don’t care , they want to change out land to their shit hole country. no not ever good! well done Don for speaking up! CBC is dead anyway..
Right on!
i support Don Cherry comment, it time to talk clear
Don Cherry has gone too far; FIRE HIM
Cherry has always been a thorn among the roses……We’ll miss his unique and honest commentary!
Excellent job ! Great articulated inspiring article
Who cares what you think.you dont speak for canada
I have never been a Don Cherry fan.I usually go get a beer or something when he comes on.However I realise he has a huge following,lots of people love the guy.He should stick to hockey stuff when he’s on air.
Bingo. That’s the biggest problem I have. And why the producers should have been fired long ago for letting him off the leash. His Obnoxious lack of respect for Ron McLean was a bad example for children as well.
That anti-French Canadian racist should have been fired 20 yrs ago! Good riddance to bad racist trash!
Francophones discriminate against anglophones all the time. You are a complete hippocrit.
What did he say that was racist Ithought in Canada it was free speach
Shut the fuck up don cherry is one of the best men in the world he doesn’t deserve any of this bull shit you are all goofs
Holy shit , being English in Quebec we get that everyday … Smarten up
Don Cherry was a great coach and anouncer ,he knows the game inside out.Thier is freedom of speach , HE MADE A COMMENT YOU PEOLPE SHOULD WERE POPPIES,AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE . SO WHAT ? all THESE IMMIGRANTS DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT OUR VENTERANS, BUT THEMSELVES. tHEY CRY ABOUT EVEY LITTLE THING .iF THEY DONT LIKE IT GET ON PLANE AND GO BACK TO THE COUNTRY YOU CAME FROM ps has any of thes so called canadians joined the military I bet not Im sick of winers
Is this what you think. So you speak mandarin Well you raciest bich ,you came to canada a couple of years ago ,and think that a man who has given so much to hockey and charity, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR CANADIANS THROW YOUR GARBAGE ALL OVER THE PLACE, SPEAK MANDARINE BEHIND PEOPLS BACK. LOW LIVES LIKE YOU SHOULD JOIN THE FORCES .i’D GIVE YOU A WEAK AND YOU WOULD BE CRYING FOR YOUR MOMMY.GO BACK FROM THE HOLE YOU CLIMBED UNDER FROM AND DO NOT COME BACK TO CANADA .PEOPLE LIKE YOU IS THE SEASON THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO SHIT PUY A TICKET AND LEAVE
You’re an idiot.
I got screwed in this CBD scam. How is this possible??? The “A” hole I spoke to assured me it was coming. He said do you think we are treating you unfairly? I said what do you think. There was nothing in your ad saying it was a USA company otherwise no one would place an order. I said do you hate Canadians and want to screw us. I asked for his address in the USA and would not do that. VISA would not refund me so I hope the border customs people are using my product and hope those who have family and friends suffer terrible pain in their lives as we thought we would get some relief from what we suffer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got an email update yesterday that the package was returned to the shipper. Hopefully refunds will be processed soon!
Morning Dean, Garry MacKenzie here in Wpg. 46 days ago a posting of Don Cherrys changes and an opportunity to order CBD,
We did this and Things have not been Good,just replies to my emails no results.Think you could have Don look into this? Garry
I ranted a few minutes ago but I cannot even find the add anymore for the CBD oil.
I agree no add to be found. I challenged the company on overcharging me me over $300.00 boy am I a sucker.
I too got screwed by this CBD oil scam. Everything I read in the add indicated this was from Canada and sure enough, I got charged in USA dollars. I called the company every week for 5 weeks and spoke with people that kept assuring me I would get my product and if not, they would come good for it and ship me more. The one guy even told me he was shipping me a complimentary bottle from the Canadian warehouse. Now when I call, you get a automated message saying if your shipment is to Canada, your shipment may be stopped at the border and there is no refund available if the border holds the product or if Canada Post loses it.
I’ve been duped by this scam as well. Fraudsters!! They don’t even tell you the shipment is coming from the U.S. I didn’t discover this until I tracked the package. My credit card company won’t refund me and I don’t have the product. Valuable lesson learned! Hopefully this company will be held accountable.
They have this response down pat as I got the exact same bullshit answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
I have received the same lame response. We as CANADIANS have been SCREWED by the u.s.a once again. What else is new.No government people to back us up as usual, but hey that is another issue.
He should be fired.
His advertising for his cod oil is a fraud for Canadians.
I ordered his cod oil, paid for it only to find out it is shipped from USA and will not clear customs.
Called company and no refund or re shipping.
FUCK YOU DON SCAMMING CHERRY
Rob I also ordered from Canada and seeing as I did not receive anything I contacted my bank and Visa will reimburse me. I also paid in US funds that I never knew about. I also plan to call the RCMP as this was a scam
Don Cherry is a crook. He was on Facebook selling CBD oil. I ordered some thinking it was from Canada only to find out that it was being shipped from the US which is against the law in Canada & the US. The CBD oil was seized at the border.
I contacted VISA and I had to send them my shipment confirmation, wrote a nasty letter saying everything within the add showed Canadian, 100% Canadian grown hemp, all testimonials Canadian. My wife had a copy of the add on her computer that we were able to send. It was the VISA fraud department. I also sent the phone number and my order number. VISA advised me it would take about 30 days for them to investigate, The next morning I got an email from customer service of the CDB oil saying a refund had been issued to me and so I check on my banking and sure enough, the refund was there.
Rob
Wondering if you have tried getting your money back. I would like to know , as I fell for same thing. With same results. Please email me.
you suck the Don is the man
Don is a virulent racist. if you support him, it says more about you than i need to know!
Agreed!
Don’t do it! I look forward to Don and Ron every Saturday night during hockey season. I love it.
Yeah, by all means, let’s keep a virulent racist on Canada’s public TV… (sarc)
How dare HNIC!
I never was a fan of Cherry. The one thing he had going for him, he was Canadian.
For years now, he seemed to lose track of what he was saying mid sentence.
Face it fans Cherry was losing it. How much lower could he go.
Often time’s I find reporters out of touch with real people. Maybe its because there social groups are small and filled with people just like them. So we see reporting like this one according to journalists. From where live in South Western Ontario Don is loved and his attitude/character is what real people love to see strong and agressive. Well these elite believe they smarter and we will be told what to like or else.
Yeah they probably love him more in the Southern USA… Cherry should buy a pointy hood and move down there, with his own kind.
This story was nothing more than sensationalism. A sad attempt to gain readership. Cherry himself confirmed in July he would be returning to HNIC. Whether you think Cherry is overdue to exit or not, this type of journalism is unprofessional. I won’t be clicking this link again.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/don-cherry-hockey-night-in-canada-return-1.5203326
https://theathletic.com/1255416/2019/10/01/sportsnet-president-bart-yabsley-addresses-a-summer-of-change-and-don-cherry/
This story was nothing more than sensationalism. A sad attempt to gain readership. Cherry himself confirmed in July he would be returning to HNIC. Wether you think Cherry is overdue to exit or not, this type of journalism is unprofessional. I won’t be clicking this link again.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/don-cherry-hockey-night-in-canada-return-1.5203326
https://theathletic.com/1255416/2019/10/01/sportsnet-president-bart-yabsley-addresses-a-summer-of-change-and-don-cherry/
Dean and whomever from cfny ….kind of boring. what has changed.
strombo was a breath of fresh air, but old school could not handle that.
Grapes in necessary and they have to let him leave on his own accord. It is more than money. Don is kind on like Art Donovan (NFL) only he (Cherry) is Mr Canada.
Say what ? Strombo was the absolute worst, was he from Canada or deep south USA?
He had no clue what he was talking about! Cherry still needs to go!
Would like to see Steve dangle , Elliot Friedman and gotta like Blundell calls it the way it is..LOL
Don is the only reason watch it. If you’re going to do this cut off CBC as well. Don will be missed big time. I mean any idiot can rattle off facts about games. Don brings more than that. For me the game is not enough. They’re going to lose a large chunk of audience. The NHL has made the game boring as watching a two tortoises playing tennis. Making it fast isn’t enough and anyone who hates Don can stick a “Sherwood” up his ass. DON RULES
Exactly
Finally they got rid of him and the others mentioned in the article and I am a leaf fan but cherry was a Boston fan through and through.. Love Bobby orr but another story about him and I will throw my tv. Cherry should have been gone 10 yrs ago…Now maybe Rogers can lower our cost so people can stop streaming…Yeah right but a good thought… tired of hearing about to much coverage for the leafs , news flash biggest fan base which makes sense to go after , 2nd leafs are in ontario figure it out…wonder how much other teams get talked about in montreal, wait I know ..hardly, why because their team is montreal..
NO Coaches Corner??? Cherry the ONLY guy with enough guts and KNOWLEDGE top speak the REAL truth ( in his opinion) about players and the game. MANY sports broadcasters echo what he says during Coaches Corner because they KNOW the SOURCE is reliable and knowledgeable.
Sportsnet losing money , maybe THAT segment is not as profitable as the past but MANY tuned into the game because part of the draw IS coaches Corner.
over 18% of Superbowl viewers in the USA tune into the game JUST for the commercials, they could care less about the game, and many in Canada who are fortunate enough to get American direct feed without signal substitution do the same.You have to SPEND money to make money… Dropping Coaches Corner is just lowering ratings even more…. Another smart move by Rogers Sportsnet . The blunder a multi billion dollar deal with NHL same way TVA Sports blundered French NHL playoff contract for 100’s of millions .. both of these are Titanic Sports networks destined to sink slowly and more bad business decisions made.
CBC makes money from NHL broadcasts , RDS same… how MUCH is an NHL game worth really???? free streaming , digital antennas becoming more popular , fewer people subscribing to TV providers … Sportsnet is a specialty channel… NO specialty sports channel worth paying for any more
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Pc hockey . Maybe way for the pinkos . Fuck you Blundini you’re irrelevant
Get Steve Dangle in there!
I agree – it’s time for HNIC to move on from Don Cherry – I really stopped watching Coaches Corner a few years ago – as Don was stuck in the past….
Stuck in the past, as in calling out players for cheap shots which included running players on icing calls, or questioning why referees don’t call intent to injure penalties?
Don’t know about you, sonny Jim, but I was watching HNIC when we got our television in the mid 50s. I grew up and played with guys who went on to the NHL. Today’s hockey is vicious. It makes the Broad Street Bullies look like choir boys. High sticks and elbows on 90% of body checks. Stuck in the past Cherry was into hard nosed hockey, not cheap shot hockey. I don’t agree with all of his opinions, but at least he was honest about them, unlike the current crop of PC bootlicks.
If Rogers wants to save money, fire the assholes running the Blue Jays (boring). Shapiro & Adkins couldn’t run a peewee team. They keep saying (5 years now) they’re rebuilding, well were fed up. B.J. Attendance down yet still higher than it should be. Don adds color and entertainment to coaches corner and you’ll not find a more
sincere Veteran supporter, the people responsible for us being able to enjoy life.
Amen don cherry is 100% correct
Rogers made a BIG financial error with the 17b dollar contract with NHL and obviously it has not paid off.
Coaches corner was /is a very popular 1st period show,,, 7min was not enough.
MANY people tuned in JUST to watch HIM and RON.
Rogers Sportsnet is making a BIG mistake again …
I have little doubt he will be picked up by someone and THAT someone;s revenue will increase while Sportsnet slowly slips into an Abyss
It’s only ten years later than it should have been. Professional sportscasters are supposed to keep an air of impartiality and Cherry did anything but. People used to talk about how terrible Bob Cole had become but his greatest victory was the fact that people were shocked to discover that he has been a lifelong Habs fan. The fact that he was able to hide this fact is a testament to his professionalism and integrity. Cherry had neither of those and to be honest, he really wasn’t all that qualified to be the “Coach” on “Coach’s Corner”. I mean seriously, what achievements had he reached as a coach? He won the Jack Adams Award even though he was eliminated by the Habs with the most stacked Bruins team in history. He hasn’t succeeded ANYWHERE he has coached and marred the face of the CBC with his racist views. He also alienated anyone who wasn’t a Leafs fan which meant that if you were Canadian, a citizen whose taxes went to fund this asshole, but you were a fan of the Canucks, Oilers, Flames, Jets, Senators, Canadiens or Nordiques, you knew that if they your team was playing the Leafs, all of the CBC would be against you. Is it any wonder that Habs fans stopped watching the CBC and switched to RDS (even the anglophones!)?
The CBC is so Toronto-centric that it sickens the rest of the country. Let’s do a little quiz that is a good example of this:
Pretend that you’re the decision-maker for HNIC at the CBC. You have two feeds, one national and one regional. Two NHL events are happening at the same time and you must choose which one goes on which feed:
Event #1: The Montreal Canadiens retire the number of Bernie “Boom-Boom” Geoffrion, a member of the HHOF who is most credited with innovating the slapshot.
Event #2: The Toronto Maple Leafs honour the 1000th game of Tie Domi, a highly-paid goon who was guaranteed to be forgotten sooner or later.
Now, which of these is more interesting to people outside of Toronto? Retiring the number of a man who helped to improve the game as we know it or The Toronto Maple Leafs’ goon who had become the face of the franchise because the team had no real talent
on it to fill seats? Guess which one the CBC chose.
Why do French Canadians do it doggie style every Saturday night?
So they both can watch the hockey game!
Great comment….maybe you should have a blog as well!
Your bias habs rermarks just fell on deaf ears .keep watching RDS .Habs suck.
I will miss the Don Cherry/IF this is true. I am so tired of politically correct that even if I do not agree, he is refreshingly opinionated and honest. And you young man are just plainly rude about anything that you think is old or old fashioned, but in reality anything that is not what you personally believe. Hoping for a job are you?
Go Fuck Yourself, Don Cherry wouldn’t even talk to a bum stabber like yourself,
Is that politically correct asshole
If this is true HNIC will finally become completely boring. Boring hockey, boring commercials, boring Rogers . Will I have to watch UFC on Saturday night or go and watch some really exciting Junior A hockey. NHL is pricing itself out of business. Betman is an idiot.
Your choice of flavour is incredible, Hockey to UFC to Junior A Hockey, I really don’t think Rogers gives a fuck about a clown like you, Entertainment, extreme, upcoming entertainment, your the type of guy, when doing a threesome with your buddies wife, is should i stick it in Franks ass, or his hot wife Renata’s pussy, Frank bend over! Dickwad,
Your tweets are from over two months ago. This is old news, and Don Cherry has already responded to the ‘rumours”, and confirmed that he will be returning. 10 minutes of research would have show you this.
Hey Fucknuts, Deans right, I aint signed, so fuckoff, and buy Bud
We will miss you Don.
This could be good, but could also be a big mistake. Then again, who am I to say.
Louis your nobody, Your indecisiveness leans toward a meek and tiresome living, man up, have an opinion, believe in that, respect other peoples opinions, Now stand up, walk over to that window, open the curtains, let the light shine in a say ” I wanna move from my Moms basement apartment”
sad to see him go, but change is good. But not to people who never laced a skate or spit out a tooth. As much as hockey has evolved you need to bring the history of the game along with it. I would sooner listen to ex players, coaches or management with there colorful anecdotes than some writers who think they know anything about hockey. And yes maybe it was time for cherry to move on, who will replace all of his history and knowledge other than a hockey guy.
This guy is clueless and obviously does not know hockey. He is q gluck bait journalist, which is becoming more and more prevalent in todays media ( Simmons, kypreos,farber, etc). HNIC tried a diff approach with strombo. I love strombo but he doesnt know hockey. He is a media guy not a hockey guy and it showed quickly. Rating dropped and they begged maclean to come back(at a hefty raise nonetheless). Cherry and Maclean are not going anywhere, they are the backbone of that broadcast. Bad enough they let bob cole go. Sportsnet did good by getting rid of cox and kypreos. I did like doug maclean tho, he was a good hockey guy.
JL your a Dick, the man is talking about economics, money, returns, value for cash, Mcown, great guy, listen to him for 20 years, wish he was still there, I dont listen to prime time anymore, the fill ins are shit entertainment. Doug Maclean was/is a cunt, drafted his own son-in-law and when he was a bust with the teams he played for he stood up for him, sounds like you got a taste for men’s asses
I believe it is u who is living in a dream world
I love those 2 guys n dont care what they make its entertainment where you on the other hand should take the stick out of your ass who do you think you are lol maybe they’ll give u the job lmao I doubt that but goodluck to you
I hope not?!!! Don Cherry is the last of the real men before the millenials and politically correct pussies of the world took over!!!…😠
Great Canadian, should have went into politics. Lol
Money talks, that’s all the panel talk about.
Don talks about actually hockey and Canada’s heroes…
Will miss the guy.
Your an idiot. Plain and simple.
You’re an idiot for using “your”
Plain and simple.
I won’t make a point of watching hnic anymore I’m mid 50s watch religiously big big leaf fan and cherry fan if hes gone it will be a hit and miss going forward if I watch from now on
Obviously, you have some sort of disability, mainly mental, Dons on for 3 minutes after 20 mins of playing time, which is usually approx 38 min of real time. Your not paying attention to what really happens in the other 38 mins. Therefore, your not watching the fucking commercials, that pay for that 38 mins, and Don. Really Cunt, you have to ask yourself the big question, what the fuck are you watching?
Maybe, but if your wrong and he comes back I hope you post something apologizing
Just for you Asshole I will
If the company thinks they have it rough now, wait till their BEST commentators(Cherry and Maclean are gone, they’ll sink faster than The Titanic! It’s a shame when Corporate can RUIN a great game like hockey. Truely sad!
Rogers will sell the Blue Jays and Rogers Center next and just keeping the broadcast rights, then some of the fired big name Sportsnet talent will get contracts with TSN and their ratings will rise and take over as the #1 sports station ‘Get your popcorn ready”
Rogers needs to improve the production just like football did years ago. The 2 shot from the 25th row is outdated and hard to watch for any new fan. Improve the product show how great the game is correctly and watch the viewership climb. Stop pointing fingers at everyone else and fix the product. The players are amazing show there artistry of the game. New tech and cameras adopt the way NFL and NBA bring the game into the living room and this will fix it I think. Oh and do more shows about the players and there stories. I for one want to see the game grow but it seems to be held back by some kind of old tradition or red tape. Don Cherry is a legend and he should be left alone and honored for the work he has been doing.
2cents
Hockey needs to go the way of football, basketball, and soccer, and have just one 15-minute half-time instead of two 15-minute intermissions. One less break means fewer taking heads sucking up the oxygen with inane nonsense which means fewer analysts to pay. Push for it, Rogers before bankruptcy beckons.
I meant to write “talking” heads but “taking” heads kind of makes sense, too.
You obviously never played competitive hockey. Ice would b shit, and unplayable
Don who???
Bs don cherry is biggest thing in canada he is the best we will misd big don here in rochester new york i hopr now tgat station fail take the money and pay some dirt bag losers
Sucks I won’t watch after first period.
Dean I’ve worked at the two biggies for many years and you’re right on. Change is inevitable. Media is changing. The hockey deal is back loaded so Rogers will continue to lose $$$ til the deal is done. The leafs can win the Cup for 5 years and they will never recoup that money. Sad but true. November is usually when the axe falls.
What kind of NPC garbage is this? Don Cherry is a Canadian legend!
LIKE IT OR NOT Hockey on television is a BUSINESS FIRST!! Don Cherry is very expensive. There are cheaper ways to do things and the viewer will still be there.
Well that’s it then. Rogers just lost a huge group of hockey fans that it couldn’t afford to loose.
No.
Rogers is now going to spend $5, and still make $6 (or so) instead of spending $5000 to make $6000 (or so)
Who cares if viewers go away in droves if the costs also go away in droves.
It’s not worth it to be number one at something if there is no profit in doing so.
If being number 3 has a higher return on the investment isn’t that where you would rather be???
About time. MacLean can’t even understand him anymore.
Give Burkie a lengthier segment. Always a good learning moment with him, and good for laughs when he gets flowery with his words!
Sad day if it’s true. The reason Rogers is bleeding cash isn’t the salaries. For starters nobody watched the playoffs past the first round because nobody cared about the teams. Rogers paid an obscene amount for the NHL rights and expected the fans would fall in line. Personally I am sick to death of the panels, over analysis, obnoxious talking heads, war rooms, manufactured drama and all the other b.s. Broadcast the games, give us good commentary, not the history of somebody’s one eyed uncle who cleaned the ice with a chamois in 1942. You know like the CBC used to.
Hugh mistake towards tradition but unfortunately in a world of snow flake generation it’s over for a call as you see it kinda guy I think it’s a reason that as a hugh hockey fan and played the game and past this on too my kids hockey won’t be what it use to be for sure sad actually why bother watching anymore
Learn to use a period.
The same reason Dean is no longer on the major market radio station he used to be…. he became irrelevant to the times as well. Everyone has there day. Rogers will no doubt ruin, if they even attempt to resurrect Coaches Corner. See ya later Hockey Night in Canada…
Irrelevant enough for you to leave comments on our blog. Congrats.
Where do I click “like” for Dean’s comment
“Irrelevant enough for you to leave comments on our blog. Congrats.” lol
Excellent point!!
rule #1 don’t tell the emperor he’s not wearing clothes!
“Irrelevant enough for you to leave comments on our blog. Congrats”
100% cringe reply! Heaven forbid someone speak the truth on your site.
tells it the way it is NO B. S.
tells it the way it is no bs
That is a shame. Atleast have his last year and then that’s it. But Roger’s is Roger’s. Never doing anything properly
One would hope so.
Sign of the times nothing lasts forever
Ahhh, who are you ? Ha!
Ill never watch sports Net again if Don Cherry is fired
They made a huge mistake replacing bob cole with Jim hughson so why wouldn’t they botch this too? Rogers the people who brought you reverse billing and Ted Rogers statues-everything they touch turns to shit.