Jarkko Ruutu Bites Andrew Peters Hand
January 7, 2009
Total Pro Sports - A couple of weeks ago Don Cherry on coaches corner had nothing good to say about the last place Senators. He called them thugs and added that he thought they may just steal your car, because of the way they were dressed. Now today, Jarkko Ruutu of the Senators Bites Andrew Peters hand during a game.
I wonder what he will say this Saturday night about the Senators and Jarkko Ruutu bite?
The Senators where in Buffalo taking on the Sabres on Tuesday Night when this all went down. A skirmish ensued at the bench and Peters and Ruutu go at it. As Peters grabs Ruutu in the face with his glove still on he bites it. It looked as if Jarkko Ruutu was a hungry lion ripping out a piece of meat from his freshly killed prey.
The replay shows Ruutu taking a nice chunk out of Peters glove and then Peters grimacing in pain. The force of the bite has yet to be determined and it seems as if Peters fingers are still intact.
We'll just have to wait and see if commissioner Gary Bettman steps in and hands down a nice suspension. We hope so!
If you don't believe us just check the replay out.
Don Cherry Calls Out NHL Thugs On Coaches Corner
January 6, 2009
Total Pro Sports - Leave it to Don Cherry to associate car theft and National Hockey League players with one another. On CBC, about 3 weeks ago, Don Cherry (on Coaches Corner) had some harsh words for the last place Ottawa Senators and Tampa Bay Lightning. Cherry basically told all of Canada what he thinks about how hockey players should dress while going to the rink.
That night the Ottawa Senators were facing the Tampa Bay Lightning when Mike Fisher of Senators and Andrei Meszaros of the Lightning were walking into the rink wearing tuques, untucked shirts and no ties. This is pretty concerning considering other leagues like the NBA enforce a strict dress code, more than the NHL does.
Cheery was basically saying that their players are dressing the way their team is playing. He compared the first plac Washington Capitals who came into their came that Saturday Night "Dessed to Impress" and the last place Senators and Lightning walked into the game dressed like they didn't care.
Somewhere Don Cherry is crying
June 5, 2008
Congratulations, to the Detroit Red Wings on winning the Stanley cup, and more importantly to Captain Niklas Lidstrom. You have won the Stanley cup and in doing so you have put to rest the old cliché that a European captain will never win one. For all those people who have long believed that a team needs to be stacked with Canadians in order to win, just look a Detroit’s roster and see how wrong you were. Not only has Lidstrom become the first European born and trained captain to win the cup, the Wings have also become the first team made of 50% Europeans to win it. This will no doubt change perceptions around the league in terms of how international players are viewed.
This win is especially sweet because it discredits one of the most annoying people in all of sports, Don Cherry. You know him, the loud mouth with the gigantic head, who wears the stupid suits. He is a dinosaur, the last of a dying racist breed, and he has been proved wrong yet again. I hope he hands in his resignation to CBC, because for years he has been downplaying the skills of European players. I can’t believe that some people actually like what he has to say because frankly, he is a moron.
Hockey Night In Canada a Retirement Home?
June 3, 2008
Now I understand that the maple leafs are the highlight team of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada, but does that mean that they have to run their broadcasting crew in the same way as the inept leafs have been running their team for so long? And in case you are wondering what i mean by this, its the persistence to continously keep on aging veterans who have clearly seen better days. now before some of you traditionalists fire off at me and tell me that i must be out of my mind for blasting some fo the great tv personalities in hockey history, consider this for a second: CBC has some several great younger broadcasters, color commentators and analysts but they still insist on sticking with Bob Cole and Don Cheery.
I know what you are thinking at this point. How can this guy insult the greatest voice to ever commentate a hockey game? Well my answer is that although his voice sounds great, a true hockey fan should be more concerned with hearing the real facts of what is happening on the ice rather than caring about what the guy sounds like. While he might have established his voice as one of the greatest, he has seen better days. When you repeatedly mistake an offside for a penealty, a penealty for a goal and a goal for an icing, maybe it should be time to hang up the mic. Many time you may also find him taking those long delays and preaching the obvious, like "they are battling hard to score the next goal (pause for about 8 seconds) both these teams out there". I think we could do without some of those lines. I think the man has done great things but his time is over. Lets give some of the younger guys like chris cuthbert and jim houghson a shot. These are two guys capable of doing what Cole was once capable of doing.
As for Don Cheery, i think his time came to an end when he started claiming that Domi should be on the powerplay for the leafs. If that is ever the case for any team, then that team should probabely consider folding not only their NHL team, but also their AHL and ECHL teams as well as anything else associated with the organization (in the MLSE's case i guess that would include the raptors and some condos). The man also seems to have a crush on Gary Roberts. While i admire the grit Roberts play with (although i would consider him over the boarderline dirty many times) how can you claim he and his 4 playoffs points should be out there on a 5 on 3 powerplay when you have players like crosby, malkin (although i think i might rather have domi out there over him right now), hossa, gonchar, sykora, whitney, malone and staal. Well Don thinks so and this is the hick attitude that has fans either loving him or hating him. He preaches grit and dump and chase hockey, but i thik the red wings are disproving all of that as he speaks, and they are also showing him that a team doesnt need to be 95% canadian to win in the playoffs. Sorry Don, while, but while the league has grown and changed, it doesnt look like you have. I think its time for a changing of the guard at the CBC's Hockey Night In Canada. �
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