Posted on 11/11/2019 12:38:58 PM PST by airborne
Sportsnet has confirmed that Don Cherry has been fired from Hockey Night in Canada over recent remarks that caused uproar.
Cherry, 85, had singled out new immigrants in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont., where he lives, for not honouring Canada’s veterans and dead soldiers.
“You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said Saturday night. “These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.”
In a statement issued on Twitter Monday afternoon, Sportsnet said that after discussions with Cherry, it had been decided that it was “the right time” for him to step down immediately. Sportsnet said Cherry had made divisive remarks that do not fit with its values.
“Sports brings people together — it unites us, not divides us,” the statement from Bart Yabsley, Sportsnet president, said. “Following further discussions with Don Cherry after Saturday night’s broadcast, it has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down.
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The invaders love what they could never build themselves.
These are low-trust, economic invaders who don't give a damn about the natives.
In their opinion, the natives are just a means to the good life. The invaders have no allegiance to the western nations, only to their bellies.
If they get the numbers to outvote the heritage population, they will, and they will convert the nation into the sh!thole from which they came.
How can they sustain that which they could never build in the first place?
See South Africa as the prime example
I remember Don Cherry playing for the Rochester Red Wings back in the mid-sixties. Gerry Cheevers was their goalie at the time. Back in the early 90’s, when I went to Canada to search for my family history on my mother’s side, I discovered that Tim Horton was a cousin of mine.
I can assure you, the Flyers fans were not part of that BS.
Bullshit
Don’t mean to be picky but you must be referring to the Rochester Americans, the AHL team that would have been the Leafs’ farm team in that league. The Rochester Red Wings was the Triple AAA team.
I don’t really understand the lyrics but I like the beat ;’}
Duh, you’re right. I meant the Americans (Amerks). My Dad was a Red Wings fan. Thanks for replying with the correct team. My old brain needs jogging from time to time.
Agreed, and I’ve expressed those sorts of sentiments on other hockey related threads. When helmets began to be legally phased in (through grandfathering) in 1979, the stickwork and cheap shot offences really began to increase and accelerated even more so with the instigator rule and more and more players wearing visors.
It’s interesting to consider how very wealthy ones like Bobby Hull or Frank Mahovlich or Bobby Orr or Phil Esposito or Guy Lafleur or even Ron Duguay and many others from the ‘60s to ‘80s era would be from endorsement dollars today because they were that recognizable from not wearing headgear. Even though helmets may have become that fact of life about the game by the near end of the 1970s by preventing injuries, still it looked better before with those aforementioned names and it may have been nice to have accommodated for that sort of thing.
Geez Louise, has this idiot ever heard of the modern American NFL???
DANG!
Lord, I loved minor league hockey back in the ‘60’s...The ECHL (East Coast Hockey league) was fantastic...Sometimes during the fight a hockey game would break out....
Knoxville Knights vs Nashville Dixie Flyers.....
Hockey is sooo boring now.Bring back the fighting!
Or maybe the Hanson Brothers.
If actually true, that would be an island of sanity in their sea of warped ideologies. As it is, I believe that the birth rate among even Hispanic immigrants to America is going down, in spite of their radical activists' plans to replace us. I suspect the only ones who don't even consider contraception are guess who in Minneapolis, parts of Maine, and other parts of the country.
GMTA!
The best way to get “those people” to get with the program and show some allegiance — if they can even comprehend what that is — is to cut off the welfare gravy train and, in Canada, totally get government out of health care, except for local units (like the American county health departments) for the poor and public health purposes and some means of tracking disease vectors, similar to our CDC, but smaller and more limited in scope.
They will be more appreciative when, like the immigrants of old to America, they work for all that they get.
The good pay a high price for their goodness. He said exactly the truth but truth died long ago in the western world.
No mention of any patriotic Canadians coming to his defense......of course that doesn’t mean none did.
I attended the Remembrance Day ceremonies today in a military town, with about 2000 troops in parade and an equal number of civilians. The only “people of colour” I saw were a Catholic priest from Africa, and a couple of Asian ladies who I suspect were from Korea (a country that sincerely appreciates the Canadian effort in the Korean War). Cherry is absolutely correct about the indifference of immigrants to our heritage. Between the immigrants and the spoiled brat Canadian-born youth, I weep for my country.
Lame
You probably should be a boxing fan. Hockey is not about fighting. To the extent that the @$$hole broadcasters talk about "getting it on' they cheapen the game. The USSR team was all class. I was a big Ranger fan when they arrived on the scene. I wanted the Russians to be humiliated. But it was my team that was humiliated.
Your idea of a great hockey player is probably Dave Schultz. That brand of hockey is why my attendance at NHL games declined rapidly from 35 a year to nearly zero decades ago.
ML/NJ
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