freep.com - 5/11/2008
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Did the Wings dodge a bullet, though? With all those hats and boots downtown for the Hoedown, we were afraid Marty Turco might think it was a home game and not the dreaded Joe. And maybe that's why Don Cherry thought this was a redneck town. Talk about a shocker: No Mule for two games because of upper-body symptoms? What, they used the concussion word? We didn't talk about things like that in ...
Cherry Makes Sports Center Debut, Calls Detroit A "Redneck Town"
awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 5/10/2008 — Don Cherry is known for not having a filter, but he's going to learn that you can upset people very quickly with certain comments. He was responding to a question from John Buccigross about attendance problems in Detroit when he dropped the r-neck ...
Return of the Dead Wings
canuckscorner.com 5/11/2008 — I don't think Don Cherry is right when he linked the attendance "problems" in Detroit with their style of play, but I think he does have a point. Despite all the raves about the European style and the "puck possession"...
Houston: Any way you slice it, Cherry delivered —
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The Globe and Mail's William Houston says that, for better or worse, Don Cherry's incendiary comments during his first appearance on ESPN could not have done better in terms of drawing viewers, both online and over the airwaves (or is...
Something Is Missing —
KK Hockey
from Tom Benjamin’s NHL Weblog, I don’t think Don Cherry is right when he linked the attendance “problems” in Detroit with their style of play, but I think he does have a point. Despite all the raves about the European style and the “puck possession” game, this group is giving new meaning to the phrase the Dead Wings. The Detroit game is not very ...
Red Wings: No frills, no fisticuffs, no losses —
NHL - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports
They've had their toughness challenged again, this time by a bunch of trash-talking Texans who wear black hats back home on the ranch and by a Canadian coach wearing a pink suit. So, in that sense, you could say the Detroit Red Wings are taking on all comers at this point. But, with apologies to Don Cherry and, yes, this city's nostalgic, old-time hockey roots, too, the Red Wings' response is ...
Caputo tires of Cherry, Melrose's perceived anti-Wings biases —
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The Oakland Press's Pat Caputo believes that the CBC's Don Cherry and ESPN's Barry Melrose are all-too-influential broadcast dinosaurs, who are plainly biased against the Detroit Red Wings because they're highly-skilled and European-dominated team that doesn't hold the bibles of...
MacLean goes to bat for Grapes —
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DetroitRedWings.com's Michael Caples noted that the CBC's Ron MacLean went to bat for his broadcasting partner, a certain Don Cherry, who proved once and for all what those of us who have Canadian family members and friends (and sometimes significant...
Franzen's injury stunned Wings —
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The Red Wings were dubmfounded to find out that their teammate, Johan Franzen, had been benched for two games as he's got some post-concussion symptoms just before Game 2: May 11, CBC Sports: The leading goal-scorer in the playoffs with...
Cherry: 'Redneck' equals working-class —
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On Saturday's Coach's Corner, Don Cherry insisted that calling Detroit a "redneck" town had nothing to do with insulting Red Wings fans: May 11, Detroit Free Press: "Redneck to me, the word came about when the Scottish and Irish come...
Don Cherry on ESPN —
Waiting For Stanley
Cherry continues to cater to the American hockey media and that's good. Check out this clip. Couldn't agree more with the guy with his analysis on almost all matters presented to him. But do you agree with his assessment on why there are empty seats in Detroit? Do you agree that it's because it's a redneck city and they want to see more "crashing and banging?" I don't have an opinion on the ...
To Watch Tonight [To The Airship!] —
Deadspin
What to watch while modifying your flatscreen with a burlap frame ...
In Progress: Detroit Pistons vs. Orlando Magic, Game 4. Chauncey Billups was a gametime decision (not playing). Also a gametime decision: pants/no pants? [ESPN]
NHL Western Conference Finals, Game 2 — Dallas Stars vs. Detroit Red Wings. 7 p.m. Only Don Cherry dresses worse than rednecks. [Versus]
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Don Cherry Calls Detroit "A Redneck Town" —
FanIQ Blog
It's not often I watch Sportscenter, or sports in general, with my girlfriend. If it's not on Food Network, Bravo or involves four girls living a ridiculously unrealistic life in Manhattan then she's not interesting. But on the rare chances she's paying attention to those stupid games on my television she usually offers the most insight.
Tuning into the late edition last night up ...
Top Shelf: Sweet suit, Don Cherry —
The Big Lead
Lee Diekemper is here for your hockey pleasure.
Don Cherry made his ESPN debut. His pearls of wisdom were not a shock: The Flyers didn’t rough up the Pens enough and the empty seats at Joe Louis Arena have nothing to do with the Detroit economy but everything to do with a lack of fighting. Meanwhile, on to last night’s game:
Straight From the “What the F*** Took So Long” Department… —
RANGERLAND.NET
Don Cherry made his debut on SportsCenter last night, and Buccigross could barely contain himself:
In typical Coaches’ Corner fashion, the Dapper Don made a few salient points, mixed in with some incoherent ramblings about the Penguins and a not-so-subtle dig at the fancy Euro players in Detroit. Apparently, if you take Grapes’ word for it, the reason why the games ...
Don Cherry, Hot Pink Suits and Your Eyesight —
Barry Melrose Rocks
By the looks of it, the world is still spinning. That's if I could see right now. My eyes are still recovering from watching Don Cherry on Sportscenter last night. Cherry wore a hot pink suit, which jived nicely with John Buccigross' pink tie. Apparently Bucci only got half of the memo on the night's attire. On Sportscenter, Cherry did split screen talk with Bucci from Pittsburgh, ...
Wings' organization says Hockeytown's the rebound —
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Not surprisingly, a day after Mitch Albom weighed in on the Red Wings' troubles filling Joe Louis Arena, and Don Cherry weighed in (twice), the organization fired back, starting from the top. The Wings' new VP of business affairs discussed...
Top Shelf: Ho-Hum, Red Wings Roll —
The Big Lead
Lee Diekemper, who now rocks a Barry Melrose mullet and flashier gear than Don Cherry, recaps the night in the NHL.
Detroit 4, Dallas 1: Marty Turco’s Detroit nightmare continues. The Stars goalie hasn’t won a game in Joe Louis Arena since his college days at Michigan . The Stars never could recover from the Wings 4-0 lead, but it’s not like the rowdy crowd was a factor. ...
