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Mattman · 11-12-2019, 12:09 AM

I also want to say I am still a big fan of Don Cherry, but his comments were wrong and I was not raised to believe this as a Canadian growing up.

This is not the way we get new people coming to our country to be interested in the game of hockey, or to trust our country as a whole. While getting to know the doctor who removed my dad's tumour last May, it turned out he was a huge Calgary Flames fan, and a Chinese immigrant.

As hockey fans living in (or outside of) Canada, I would like to think we could at the end of the day cheer for the growth of hockey as a sport.

In the same hopes I have for Don Cherry to grow beyond this incident and learn, I also hope that people coming into Canada don't have to be fearful of separation into 'us' and 'them', but rather we can welcome them into our society by extending out a hand, maybe passing them a beer, and explain "So the 1st rule you have to know about hockey is that we don't cheer for the Oilers..."

11-12-2019, 12:09 AM	#699
Mattman First Line Centre Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: YYC Exp:	I also want to say I am still a big fan of Don Cherry, but his comments were wrong and I was not raised to believe this as a Canadian growing up. This is not the way we get new people coming to our country to be interested in the game of hockey, or to trust our country as a whole. While getting to know the doctor who removed my dad's tumour last May, it turned out he was a huge Calgary Flames fan, and a Chinese immigrant. As hockey fans living in (or outside of) Canada, I would like to think we could at the end of the day cheer for the growth of hockey as a sport. In the same hopes I have for Don Cherry to grow beyond this incident and learn, I also hope that people coming into Canada don't have to be fearful of separation into 'us' and 'them', but rather we can welcome them into our society by extending out a hand, maybe passing them a beer, and explain "So the 1st rule you have to know about hockey is that we don't cheer for the Oilers..." __________________ Last edited by Mattman; 11-12-2019 at 12:11 AM.