Not five hours after my last post “Don Cherry, are you happy now?” during CBC’s Coach’s Corner Don Cherry explains the problem with the Leafs is their unwillingness to retaliate.

Cherry then offers “not-to-worry” comfort to CBC viewers because in two years “when the Irishman takes over” Leaf players will have been trained to murder their opponents.

Think I am kidding? Click the Don Cherry and Ron Maclean image and watch the video for yourself! 

Keep in mind, Cherry’s statements come on the same night and during the same CBC segment of Coach’s Corner in which this photo of Don Sanderson was posted in silence, complete with promises from McLean and Cherry the real issues behind the death, they would look at another time.

What exactly is Cherry suggesting? Quoting Cherry’s logic as depicted in the CBC video clip, is the player who fought with Don Sanderson also going to be a “dead person?”

I urge you to carefully watch the video-clip again at the point when Cherry ridicules Tomas Kaberle for not “…going up and doing something…”.  Take note of what Kaberle is doing; by extending his left arm Kaberle is appealing to the nearby referee. Excuse me, but isn’t that what Assistant Captains are supposed to do? Isn’t that what we teach our children, don’t retaliate, don’t take matters into your own hands, take it to the proper authority … in this case the on-ice official?

No, not Don Cherry. That’s not what he advocates and preaches on TV every week on CBC’s Coach’s Corner. According to Cherry, Tomas Kaberle should have “done something about it” and then, maybe, in the course of doing so a head hits the ice resulting in another “dead person.”

One final question, as a father and a coach of minor league hockey, are Don Cherry’s values the ones CBC wants me to teach my son and the other boys I coach?