Rockem’ Sockem’ the Don Cherry way
I love hockey. I’m Canadian so there’s some kind of excuse for it but it’s one of the few sports where diving and cheating get checked, and I mean checked, by the players themselves. Hockey is one of those honourable sports where the accounts are settled on the ice and if you fake a dive, you can be damn sure someone’ll plaster you on the ice for real a couple of minutes later. Fighting in hockey is part of the game as much as physical aggression is part of any sport, whether it is transmuted or for real. What’s good about hockey is they let them fight it, man to man, until the account is settled. No cheap shots allowed.
Another great in hockey is Don Cherry. We’ve had him for years in Hockey Night in Canada, but, in what was probably a long overdue moment, NBC invited him on for the second intermission in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals this year.. What followed was classic rockem’ sockem’ Cherry Grapes. Gotta love how he owns Brett Hull on the jimmied foot in the crease goal. Granted, he’s not always politically correct and sometimes he does sound like a numbnut, but nobody else knows the true pulse of the great hockey spirit than Cherry, the voicebox for the average hockey maniac.
