awww too bad people can't vote for that position...
and this is one of my favriote clips of him
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yRm_K9OpYbo
2007-07-21 02:43:43 · 22 answers · asked by Harren 3 in Sports ➔ Hockey
I know he's very popular here in Canada, but I just find him way too over-the-top. He sounds like he just stepped out of the 1940s, and that clip you provided is a perfect example. He's best enjoyed if you decide beforehand that you decide not to take too seriously anything he says.
I've met him on a couple of occasions, and he's hardly been recognizable as the same person. Very nice, polite and much softer in his choice of words....I think a lot of his work on CBC is just for show.
2007-07-21 02:49:25 · answer #1 · answered by Craig S 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
yes, but only if there is a clause to state that Don Cherry would be replace after 1 season. This way, Cherry could change some of the stupid rules in the NHL -
1) bring back fighting,
2) remove those hard as rock elbow and shoulder pads that give players concussion,
3) maybe implement to force all players to keep the ear piece on their helmets as well
4) automatic icing
And if Cherry is replaced after just 1 year, he won't destroy the business side of NHL (or put NHL in that deep of another hole)
5) implement a minimum of 11 Canadian in a team rule, lol
2007-07-21 14:20:59 · answer #2 · answered by baypae 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cherry works as a commentator precisely because he can be biased and say whatever pleases him. A commisioner has to be a diplomat. Ask Minnesota how Jesse 'the Body' Ventura worked out as governor.
2007-07-21 13:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by balderarrow 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, you want a pro league run by a senior citizen who last had actual playing/coaching contact with the pro game way back in the early '80s.
Don is entertaining and has his heart in the right place but get real. We aren't annointing popes here.
2007-07-22 01:26:46 · answer #4 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but I think Don Cherry is kind of a pig. I would like to see him locked in a room with Gary Bettman and a camera, though. That would be good times.
2007-07-21 12:21:10 · answer #5 · answered by Cat Loves Her Sabres 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, and I am a Cherry fan. Don says what a lot of others think but he's an extremist and turns off as many folks as he turns on. He's also getting a little long in the tooth. I could see him being a consultant to new commish Ken Dryden (if it can happen, oh please make it happen).
2007-07-21 11:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If I could, I would. But he must drop his rants on Europeans and French-Canadians. It was embarrassing enough to have the Bloc Quebecois bring up the Shane Doan debacle to Parliament.
2007-07-21 10:52:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don’t know where to start with this.
I would vote to assassinate this complete moron.
The last thing the NHL needs is to be reduced to Professional Wrestling.
The NHL fans and players exhume pure class, and Don Cherry is nothing but a pussing-seeping-smelly, scabbing boil protruding from the NHL’s anu-s!
2007-07-21 19:26:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
As much as I enjoy his antics, and agree with him on some points, I feel he is not the type of man we need as commissioner. He belongs right where he is, as spokesperson and analyst of the game. That said, I don't know anyone I would rather have less than Bettman.
2007-07-21 12:30:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's not a young man. I think his TV demeanor is mostly an act. Everyone who has actually met him say he is very soft-spoken and polite in real life. It sure wouldn't be hard to do better than Bettman.
2007-07-21 15:30:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋