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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
This situation sucks. I idolized Cherry growing up and watched Coach's Corner every week. I loved the way he talked, I loved the music, I loved that dog, and I always took his hockey advice.
As I grew older things changed. His views on hockey became less relevant, his views on European players were destroyed by Lidstrom and Malkin, and his Canadian patriotism drifted towards xenophobia. I still respected the man as an important piece of Canadiana but found my self watching him and agreeing with him less and less.
Now instead of having a legacy as one of the great Canadian icons Don will forever be a martyr for the I want free speech to spread hate crowd. Nice.
I am annoyed at Don for being so stubborn he couldn't issue a simply clarification or apology, I am annoyed at the CBC and Sportsnet for keeping this ticking time bomb on the air for years past his best before date, and I am annoyed at the Sun/Post media for stoking division and reopening wounds from the election by framing this as a PC/cancel culture/CBC/Trudeau issue instead of a business making a business decision. This sucks.
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Trudat! Instead of him going out as another Canadian class act, he goes out as an old ranting a-hole!