Don Cherry
Don Cherry Trivia
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Trivia
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According to Cherry, a baseball injury suffered in the off season kept him from making the NHL.
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Don is the agent for Jason Spezza who plays for the Ottawa Senators.
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Don Cherry played tenor drum in a civilian pipe and drum band in Ontario.
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He was granted honorary membership of the Police Association of Ontario in 2005.
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Cherry contributed in developing Rose Cherry's Home for Kids in Milton, Ontario.
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In 1997, Cherry's wife, Rose, died of cancer.
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In 1985, the first of a chain of franchised sports bars/restaurants bearing Don Cherry's name was opened in Hamilton.
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He appeared in The Tragically Hip's video The Darkest One.
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His voice was also used in Disney's animated feature The Wild.
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Cherry was named to the top ten Greatest Canadians by a CBC program in 2004.
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Cherry owns a bull terrier named Blue.
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Cherry is the part-owner and the former coach of the Ontario Hockey League's Mississauga IceDogs.
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He was hired in 1980 to coach the Colorado Rockies in the AHL.
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Cherry was fired by the Boston Bruins for making a costly mistake in the 1979 playoff series against the Montreal Canadians.
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Cherry won the Jack Adams Award in 1976.
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In the 1974-75 season, Cherry became an NHL head coach for the Boston Bruins
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He was named AHL coach of the year in 1974.
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Cherry became the coach of the Rochester Americans in the middle of the 1971-72 season.
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Don has a younger brother, Dick Cherry, who played 145 NHL games: 6 with the Boston Bruins and 139 with the Philadelphia Flyers.
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Cherry retired from hockey in 1970.
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Cherry played 15 season in the American Hockey League.
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Cherry won the Memorial Cup with Barrie in 1953.
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He played junior hockey with the Barrie Flyers and the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey Association.
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He is a highschool drop-out.
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Cherry is the host of multiple Rock'em Sock'em videos.
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He played one game for the Boston Bruins when they were in the 1955 playoffs.
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Don coached Boston for a few years as well as the Colorado Rockies.
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Cherry: The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.
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Cherry: Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
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Cherry: It's always been a part of the game. The fans love fighting. The players don't mind. The coaches like the fights. What's the big deal?
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Cherry (On hockey visors): Most of the guys that wear them are Europeans and French guys.
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Cherry: If it keeps going like this, the Zamboni driver is going to be the first star.
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Cherry: I died on May 10, 1979; at 11:10 p.m. to be exact. Two shots killed me. The first, which left me critically wounded, was fired by Guy Lafleur. The one that wiped me out came from the stick of Yvon Lambert. Had I survived these attacks I have no doubt that I would still be coach of the Boston Bruins today and, quite likely, governor of Massachusetts.
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Cherry: I consider my style that of the men of the 1930s, where men had an elegant style, tight suits, tight collars, lots of jewellery, a clean sharp image. I must admit my style has been called foppish, but I like it.
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Ron McLean (On working with Don Cherry): Don's the only guy I know who you can't quite predict. There are times when he just snaps and I have to make a decision: Can I carry on with this, or must I totally back off and save us both?
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Joe Thornton (Talking about Don Cherry): Everybody's a fan of his growing up; we all watched Coach's Corner. I'm his number one fan.
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Cherry (On Don Saleski, who he coached in Colorado): I remember taking a look at him and saying 'Anyone who perms his hair has got to go'. So we sent him to Fort Worth.
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Cherry: If Saddam Hussein put up 1,000 missiles at our country, who would you go to for help? The Russians or the U.S.?
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Cherry: I think the people, the working-man people, made a statement here, that you don't have to be a college graduate to be a good Canadian.
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Cherry (After a goal, Islanders' Zigmund Palffy kisses teammate Travis Green on the lips): I know those guys who wear visors are sweeties, but that's a little too much.
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Cherry: I look around and I wish sometimes I could just walk into a building and be like any other coach, but I can't and I realize that. ... I have to be Don Cherry to the kids who go to the games. ... I think I owe it to them to sign autographs.
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