Posted on 11/21/2006 1:59:58 PM PST by CardShark
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario Clad in matching nylon workout pants and jacket, looking like he might be preparing to coach a game later that afternoon, the seventh-greatest Canadian of all time makes his way up through the stands at the Hershey Center in the western Toronto suburb of Mississauga.
Though he hasn't coached a National Hockey League game in 26 years, this is still Don Cherry's element the hockey rink. He has spent most of his 72 years in places like this, actually having helped design the Hershey Center for the major junior team he once owned and briefly coached here. But for all of that time spent behind benches and in dressing rooms and in front of microphones in similar places, Cherry remains an iconoclast, a controversial figure sometimes improbably isolated from the game to which he has given so much of his life.
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Cherry For President in 08 (after we make him a U.S Citizen) hehe
Thanks so much for posting this article. I have to say, Canadians are just about the nicest people out there, and I envy their allegiance to hockey. Wish it could be that way here in the U.S.
It just stupifies me that people would rather watch baseball on TV than hockey. What am I missing? It's like watching paint dry. OK, don't get me started.
GO SABRES!!!
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