Don Cherry quotes

Cherry: You know, I've been home now for 24 hours. I must've been asked 9,000 times about that incident, we don't have it [the footage], but I want to talk about it. Figure it out: Here's a guy who gets eight stitches, eight stitches in his chin. What happened? Who did it? Nobody knows, ok? Nobody knows, ok, so here's what happens. The referee calls the guy over and he says ‘Did you see what happened?', ‘Whoaa, not my side' ‘Did you see what happened?' ‘Well wait a minute if I tell you, that means five-minute major.' If the linesman says five-minute major... (Don Cherry)
You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned! It's unbelievable that it's not a suspension! What it did, it gave meat to everybody that's against the National Hockey League-this'll be the poster boy...[while showing clips of controversial hits by Cooke over the years]!! You think he'd do this stuff against [Wayne] Gretzky, if [Dave] Semenko was there?! Do you think he'd do this against [Steve] Yzerman if [Bob] Probert was there?! NO! That's what I'm trying to tell you, he wouldn't do that stuff! View quote
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Cherry: ...Yeah he's gone anyhow, going into overtime. Gretzky, verge of elimination. So, what do we do? They say ‘What do we do? How about he [Doug Gilmour] gets hit with the puck? He gets hit with the puck, he's laying on the [sic]'. The only way he'd get hit with the puck is if his chin was on the ice. Anyway, that's all I've got to say about that. [Gretzky] gets the overtime winner and that's wrong as far as I'm concerned. Andreychuk got a five-minute major, he [Gretzky] should've got something! At least a slap on the wrist or a dirty look! View quote
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The Flames and Canucks, this one was the toughest series of all folks. No prisoners were taken in this one. Whoa! Are they hittin'? And they're hittin' to hurt, I'll tell ya. Watch these beauty hits. You better keep your head up in this series I'll tell ya! View quote
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Cam Neely! Is he a beauty? Fifty goals in 49 games. View quote
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Watch John Blue give Rob Pearson a cross-check like you can't believe. Watch this. He gets up, Pearson goes back, WHAM! Well what can you expect from a guy named Blue? View quote
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Andrei Kovalenko runs over Patrick Roy, and Patrick slugs him! Watch him use his blocker here. Don't fool with Patrick! View quote
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Jimmy Waite thinks this is offside. WRONG Jimmy! 1-0! View quote
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Ron MacLean: No, no, it could be a four-minute penalty... View quote
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My buddy Tie [Domi] gets zonked by [Scott] Stevens! [Shawn] Antoski catches [David] Shaw. [Mathieu] Schneider flips [Troy] Mallette! Sergei Bautin lays a pretty one on [Darren] McCarty! [Eric] Weinrich jolts [Mike] Sillinger! View quote
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[Bob] Beers crashes [Ron] Hextall. Ron's a little upset, and Beers is lucky it didn't happen a few years ago! (Don Cherry)
Captain Crunch [Wendel Clark] nails Chelios, and the Hawks are gone in six! Are they gonna miss Wendel or what? What a hit. View quote
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But everybody knows the Bruins don't quit, and they go on to win this series in seven games. Watch Raymond [Bourque] smoke this one by Patrick [Roy]! View quote
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