Ovechkin Proved Cherry Wrong
June 9, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
If David Duke was given his own show on Fox News, we’d tune in just to hear how stupid he is. Live. Or perhaps to get a horror-film thrill-goer feeling from how cleverly he makes his harmful points.
Now, why do some of you watch Don Cherry?
“He’s not going to get any better and I would be surprised if he does as well as he did last year,” said a Cherry. “He was doing things (last year) he shouldn’t. He was cutting into the middle.”
“There are going to be a lot of guys waiting for him this year. He’s not going to be running around like a bull in a china shop like he did.”
Cherry was talking about Alexander Ovechkin. Threatened by the celebration and success of the foreign-born player, Cherry made sure to let us know what side he is on. Looks like Ol’ Wrongalot was wrong again.
Ovie
GP G A PTS PPG
2007-08 82 65 47 112 1.37
2008-09 79 56 54 110 1.39
Roy MacGregor, the respected Ottawa Citizen columnist, author and one-time minor-hockey coach, says he could see the Cherry effect on kids. “His thinking, and his extraordinary influence, has been the single most destructive influence on the development of Canadian hockey,” MacGregor says. He adds that Cherry has that power not just because of TV, but “because hockey means so much in Canada, and because people believe in him.”
“Don gets himself into a box,” Dryden says. “The National Hockey League is a far, far better league now that the best players in the world all play here.” Harry Neale, a former coach who has become CBC’s top game analyst, agrees. “Anyone who thought that Canada was going to be the only supplier of NHL players had blinders on,” Neale says. “It’s a global game now.”
For the record, we think Ovechkin will get his peak numbers in his eighth season.
Ovie
GP G A PTS PPG
2012-13 80 86 98 184 2.30
And Ovechkin will break Gretzky’s record 92-goal season with 95. Sometime in the next three seasons. Hopefully you won’t have to hear any xenophobic remarks from irrelevant old men that minimize that achievement. On air. Live.
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