Chris Silcox (Posted 2008-01-12 09:46:51)
One more thing. I think it's very amusing to watch someone go off the deep end and start spouting off all the things that irritate them. If you don't like it, change the channel.

Sarah Steffanson (Posted 2008-01-08 04:07:21)
Congrats Adam for making a valid argument relating to the fact that the public broadcaster is using our tax dollard to allow a loud-mouthed bigot like Cherry to continue to spout his nonsense. It's like NPR in the USA paying to have Rush Limbaugh on their publicly funded network - in other words, it's ridiculous. Cherry is entitled to his own beliefs and once in a while he can even be amusing but he should know better than to make some of those remarks about either Native-Canadians, gay people or the French. His age and volume don't make him right, they just make him hard to shut up. I appreciate the institution that is Coaches Corner as much as the next person but am sick of the tirades that are really just an ugly view of what I don't like about being Canadian.

David Goulet (Posted 2007-12-30 10:49:16)
First off it was Ron McLean's fault that Cherry went off on his moronic rant. Cherry preps for his segment only to have Ron broadside him with an argument that should have been left to the Hotstove, or better yet the Fifth Estate. Ron knows better than to get Cherry off his track. As for Cherry himself, he's Canada's Don Rickles -- an old cumudgeon that can get away with saying things the rest of us would be crucified for. It's like the two Dons are 'elected' representatives of all things non-politically correct. Yes it's weird, but that's the way it is. Maybe David Suzuki can look into the sociological reasons behind it.

Dale Frisky (Posted 2007-12-27 00:15:12)
Adam; You have some of it right. First I listen when ever I can to you on the the Fan 960 out of Calgary. I really did not think you had a strong political bias. I was wrong. The CBC sucks the life blood out of every Canadian tax payer, myself included. Suzuki and Gore have used public television to promote their bias opinions to everyone. Suzuki has sat at the CBC trough for too many years. Don speaks for me and a million others. Andrew Ference is a completely different person away fom the rink. I was upset when he went to Boston. What Andrew does is not about good headlines or prizes. Andrew has a real and genuine belief in a lot of different things. Not just environment issues, he cares about people. As for Cherry, it's like you speaking for all media, you don't and neither does Don about Canada. It's easy to pick on a person who speaks up and out. How about the pro athlete and media giants that don't.

Patrick T (Posted 2007-12-26 20:50:59)
Adam, stick to hockey. You are obviously a liberal and feel it is okay to call conservative Christians blood hungry and other vile names. But, you will not tolerate so called racist remarks about anyone else. You are no better using your position as a hockey writer to blast the other side. As for Canadian troops, they are your nations sons and daughters of all faiths and color. Right war or wrong war, it will never matter.

Patrick (Posted 2007-12-26 17:19:02)
Punch your weight, kid.

Nathan Schnell (Posted 2007-12-26 16:25:44)
Adam I respect your opinion, but you are totally wrong. Coachs Corner is anticipated by many in this country. Don Cherry is an icon in the hockey world. CBC gets a lot of views just because of Don Cherry. Theres a reason he was voted 7th best Canadian in history ahead of even Wayne Gretzky!

Todd Thicke (Posted 2007-12-26 15:02:16)
Complaining about what Cherry says is just as bad as anything he might say on the air. I'm a proud Cherry supporter, but I agree that sometimes he crosses the line. It's called "entertainment," and entertain he does. In the words of Don Cherry, Adam, when Coaches Corner comes on, maybe it's "tea time" for you. If you don't like it, don't watch it. I for one, will continue to support Don in all his endeavours.

mike mcguire (Posted 2007-12-25 14:35:37)
I agree with Cherry. If we still had enforcers and no silly instigator rule, pukes like Ruutu would have had their clocks cleaned many times by now. A thirty game suspension for kicking another player's skate blade is idiotic.

D.S. (Posted 2007-12-25 10:36:48)
A joyless, relentlessly negative column. I'm genuinely sorry that I read it...

Craig (Posted 2007-12-24 16:53:28)
I would like to qualify though that in my experience most Canadians, caucasians included are wonderfully tolerant and it is rare that I encounter racial prejudice, and Canada should be proud of the efforts being undertaken to make ammends for past sins. I am proud to be Canadian, and think wuite highly of most of my country men. Cherry's thinkging was shaped by a prejudiced generation, but since he won;t accept that environment can shape a person, I guess he'll jsut have to "try harder."

steven ray charles (Posted 2007-12-24 16:22:52)
here's a message to all you people that think canada is such a tolerant nation "you're dreaming in technicolor!". i'm a brown skinned man born and raised in canada. my great grandfather arrived in canada in the 19th century. that gives my family over 100 years of history in this country. however, people have made racist comments and inuendo's to me since i was a child. basically people are the same all over the world. you're either tolerant and open to other cultures, customs and religions or you are not. you either have empathy and compassion for the less fortunate or you don't. being a canadian or of any other country doesn't make you one way or the other. altruism is a moral belief system, not a nation. Cherry's just one of those people that can't accept that anyone different then himself is of equal stature and importance.

Ron Peer (Posted 2007-12-24 15:04:59)
What have you done in your life Adam to demand the head of a great Canadian like Don Cherry. He's accomplished more than you could ever hope to. Don is usually not far off the mark and a lot of Canadians side with what he says. If anyone should be nbanned I would hope it would be Adam whatever your name is.

Paul Schurman (Posted 2007-12-24 13:21:56)
Way to go Don. You've been a tell it like it is as long as I have watched you on HNIC and I hope that you continue (or should I say I hope you are allowed to do so) as long as you are on the show. You and Ron Mac Lean are the best people on there.

Sean (Posted 2007-12-24 13:15:03)
Cherry makes stupid emotional comments acting like a child as a result of just a disruption, and you write with the utter ignorance for so many opinions opposing yours. The first point he made was fine and dandy. Whether the plight of native children is understood or not by him, it simply shows his ignorance. The segway to that topic however was entirely a disruption and unrelated to the topic matter. If Simon does not understand that his antics are not logical and unacceptable, then it's not because of his inner child feeling discriminated, rather his own stupidity and lack of comprehension. Cherry's language is idiotic however the message is true. As per the personal religion comment... it's called Christianity and albeit I'm not Christian, it's common sense that the major religion in this very beautiful and multicultural one is that, and that the reason for christmas is celebration of Christ's birth. That's not meant to be preaching nor is it supposed to have any significance to those that don't celebrate the day, i.e. you and I. I suggest you quit complaining about a mere 5 seconds inconsequential to anything at all, in the same childish manner that Cherry ruined half the segment with. All in all, he (Cherry) lacks the ability to think ahead of time maybe and spews out whatever comes to his mind with no form of filtering. That, I've always disliked about him as it's not professional and nor is it entertaining to see an old man bitching on and on about everything (from face-visors a few years back to Simon's suspension etc.) He shouldn't be suspended, rather just given a lesson on proper behavior on screen when so many people look up to him and listen to things he has to say. If making a point, like the one he's implicitly making rather doesn't have the guts to say it in terms of Simon's victims missing 0 games, then he should present it in a logical manner instead of take the route: "I'm just saying" or "I thought that should just be known" or garbage like that. Simon stomped on a guy's foot. Either agree with the suspension or don't and say it outright. Simple as that.