Don Cherry

Don Cherry
Don Cherry pictured at the CBC Winter Launch in 2010
Born	(1934-02-05) February 5, 1934 (age 90) Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position	Defence
Shot	Left
Played for	Hershey Bears Boston Bruins Springfield Indians Rochester Americans Vancouver Canucks (WHL)
Playing career	1954–1972

Donald Stewart Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian former^[1] ice hockey commentator. He is also a sports writer, as well as a retired professional hockey player and National Hockey League (NHL) coach.

In 2004, Cherry was voted by viewers as the seventh-greatest Canadian of all-time in the CBC miniseries The Greatest Canadian.

Cherry played one game with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five seasons.

From 1986 to 2019, Cherry co-hosted Coach's Corner—a segment aired during CBC's Saturday-night NHL broadcast Hockey Night in Canada.^[2][3]

In November 2019, Cherry was fired by Sportsnet from Hockey Night in Canada for comments that suggested Canadian immigrants liked military veterans dying and benefited from it.^[4]

References

1. "Don Cherry: Canadian hockey pundit fired for poppy rant". BBC News. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
2. "The Don Cherry Lexicon". CBC. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
3. "Don Stewart Cherry". The Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
4. "'I don't regret a thing': Don Cherry speaks out on his firing and Ron MacLean | CTV News". www.ctvnews.ca. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-12.

Other websites

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database