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Don Cherry was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Cherry's maternal grandfather, Richard Palamountain, served in the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery during the First World War and received a citation for his efforts at Vimy Ridge. He was born in Gloucester, orphaned, and came to Canada as a home child. Don's father, Del Cherry... served in the RCHA, and later in life Don became an honorary member.
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After the end of his playing career, Cherry struggled for a time as a Cadillac salesman and a construction worker. He worked as a painter earning $2 per hour.[5] In the middle of the 1971-72 season, Cherry became the coach of the American Hockey League's Rochester Americans. In his third season behind the bench, Cherry was voted the AHL's "Coach of the Year." After his three-year stint in Rochester, he was promoted to the NHL as head coach of the Boston Bruins, a team which was coming off a successful run of two Stanley Cups and three first-place finishes, but would see the departure of superstars Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito.
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Among other things, Cherry critiqued coaches' wardrobes as much as their game plans. Canadian media critics quickly weighed in, denouncing Cherry's propensity for descriptors like "geez" and "youse" and "attaboys" as low-brow, hardly the sort of thing that kids should be listening to on the publicly funded CBC. Owners soon threatened to bar Cherry from their buildings. A great obliterating snowball seemed to be rolling down the hill of Canadian hockey culture.
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The network announced yesterday that Cherry will appear during the second intermission of Monday's Stanley Cup final. A commentator exchange between CBC and NBC, involving Cherry and Brett Hull, was announced earlier this spring.
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Don Cherry as a trumpet and cornet player has perhaps been over shadowed by other masters of these instruments despite his innovative and original approch. He has ... been perceived as a sideman rather than a bandleader in his own right, this may be partly due to his early work with Ornette Coleman from 1957, where he played on the sax players first seven ground-breaking free jazz albums alongside Charlie Haden and Billie Higgins, who was later replaced by Ed Blackwell.
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See the great history of hockey through hundreds of wall photographs and maybe have the opportunity to meet the man himself, Don Cherry, and share some views on hockey. Enjoy special event menus, daily specials and their great wings.
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