[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Don Cherry hasn't said anything useful or insightful in well over a decade. As for him being fired for that rant in particular, it would be surprising if it weren't, like, the tenth time he's said something similar.

I'm surprised he didn't walk it back, though - it would have been pretty easy to say he didn't mean immigrants. He didn't say immigrants directly. He could have cast it as, "no, when I say "you people", I'm talking about everyone in the country, and saying if you enjoy our way of life here, the least you can do is pay tribute to the men and women whose sacrifice allowed you to enjoy it", or something like that. But to essentially just give a "no comment, I've had my say" is obviously going to be interpreted as "yes, you understood me correctly, and I stand by my statements"... and yeah, given his history, this being the straw that breaks the camel's back and gets him fired isn't the least bit surprising.

That's what gets me, too. This would have been a softball to walk back.