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Hockey fights; Cause, symptom, cure

 Following my January posts, Don Cherry, are you happy now? and Don Cherry promotes “you’re a dead person” on same night Sanderson is honoured, I received a handful of emails from readers alerting me to the 5th Estate program on fighting in hockey.
The 5th’s piece combined with a personal weekend experience has me adding another [...]

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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 [...]

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Don Cherry, are you happy now?

Ask my wife how many times I’ve said “it’s only a matter of time” before somebody dies because of what CBC’s Don Cherry and other hockey figureheads don’t just allow, but actively promote as “part of the game” of hockey.
What will be done about it? Left unchecked, likely not much or not nearly enough. In [...]

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Well, here I am, aboard US-Air flight 909 out of Buffalo NY headed for Charlotte NC, with a final destination of Myrtle Beach South Carolina.
We tee-off an hour after we land on Barefoot/Fazio at 1:30 pm which will be the first of 8 rounds in the next 8 days. We, being me, my friend and [...]

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