Last night, on Hockey Night in Canada’s “Coach’s Corner” segment, Don Cherry took a few minutes to reflect on Matt Cooke’s injurious hit on Boston’s Marc Savard, and the resultant lack of suspension. As you might imagine, Cherry was less than impressed (skip ahead to 1:55 for the relevant part):
Don Cherry Eviscerates Matt Cooke On Coach’s Corner
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↵(Video via Puck Daddy)
↵Say what you will about Don Cherry and his perpetually unusual sartorial decisions, but never doubt his pure, insistent love for the game of hockey, and his deeply-felt need to protect it from the perversion of poor rulings from up high. This Cooke case would most certainly qualify, and we’re all still in a state of shock that Cooke didn’t even get a game for extending his elbow into a defenseless player’s head, causing a brain injury.
↵Perhaps, as has been pointed out numerous times, Cooke should have insulted Savard’s wife instead; given the NHL’s mangled set of precedents, that would have at least given him a few games off.
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