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Don Cherry: Game
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Despite his journeyman career, Cherry only played one game in the big leagues; a fill-in game for the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens during the 1955 playoffs. Tiring of the hockey life, Cherry retired in 1970. After working two years in construction and selling cars, he returned to play with the Rochester Americans in 1971. Not long after, he was hired on as a replacement for the club's coach, who had been fired mid-season.
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Don reminisces on hockey's greatest plays, best playoff goals, and some great 7th game overtime magic. Many clips are rare and being shown to the public for the first time. Included, as always, are the greatest saves, hardest hits, funniest bloopers, and even a tussle or two. Don ... picks the hardest hitter of all-time. This video features the best the NHL has had to offer over the past 60 years.
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Still, it isn't fair to blame Cherry alone for hijacking coverage of the games, for hogging a spotlight that more properly belongs to skilled athletes who labour in obscurity (and, often, live in near-poverty) for their moment with Ron MacLean. The whole NHL entourage -- the players who are taking a break from their real jobs to play some international pond hockey; the scandals trailing them; questions about illegal drug use in the NHL; the dubious resumes of convicted thug Todd Bertuzzi, or Dany Heatley, charged with vehicular homicide; Jose Theodore's hair restoration remedy -- all of it contradicts the Olympic spirit. Besides, these guys are professionals; they have no more right to be in Turin than the Ice Capades' clown.
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Born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1934, Cherry wasn't blessed with either size or enormous talent, but he played the game on the edge. He pursued his dream of being an NHL player with that same in-your-face attitude. A bruising, brawling defenseman, Cherry left high school at the age of 14 and chased his hockey dream across North America — Windsor, Barrie, Hershey, Springfield, Trois Rivieres, Kitchener-Waterloo, Sudbury, Spokane, Rochester, Tulsa.
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