data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.hockey.54167 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Mark McKinzie)
Subject: Re: Don Cherry - help me out, here
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
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"William K. Willis" 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
>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
>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
>ass. Let me know - maybe I'm missing something.
From his Topps "rookie" year (as coach) card (74-75):
"For the past couple of seasons, Don has been the highly-successful
coach of the Rochester Americans of the AHL, but he is getting his
first shot at an NHL job with the Bruins. Named Coach of the Year
in the AHL the last two years, and he aims to make the Bruins a
rough team again, as they were a couple of years back. Although
he played 16 seasons of professional hockey, Don never played a
regular-season NHL game. He did appear in one playoff game for
Boston in 1956-57. Don's brother, Dick, played two seasons in the
NHL with Boston and Philadelphia."
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Mark McKinzie | Listen, if they're going to buy lunch boxes,
[email protected] | they might as well buy David Cassidy lunch boxes.
UW Dept. of Mathematics|
Madison, WI 53706 | -David Cassidy-