This was likely Cherry's swansong season anyways. Now he won't get the extended, formal retrospective going-out tribute that Bob Cole received.
Sportsnet is in the business of attracting new eyeballs and are turning towards younger, more ethnically diverse demographics. "Hockey is for Everyone" is the philosophy of the day and an octogenarian going on about the Original Six fifty years later isn't going to catch their imaginations.
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