Comments on: Dismissing Cherry & who he represents is a large mistake http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/126 :: BroadStreetBully.com - All hockey. All fights. All the time. :: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:34:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: The Bully http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/126#comment-172 Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:09:39 +0000 http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/126#comment-172 Cox is a fool, come to think of it. No response to my letter which is no big deal so all those nice things I said about him ... fuck him. He's just another spineless house organ for the NHL's flunkies. He doesn't have the balls to criticize the league when he is feeding his face from it, win or lose. Some existence. Cox is a fool, come to think of it. No response to my letter which is no big deal so all those nice things I said about him … fuck him. He’s just another spineless house organ for the NHL’s flunkies. He doesn’t have the balls to criticize the league when he is feeding his face from it, win or lose. Some existence.

]]> by: Jnacci http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/126#comment-148 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:25:47 +0000 http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/126#comment-148 Mr Cox, I don't disagree with you about the benefits of the new rules. Also, unlike many hockey fans, I agree with the saying "If it's a penalty in the first period, it should be a penalty in overtime." I also agree with Colin Campbell that in order to make an omelette you will have to break some eggs. (i.e., more penalties now, mean a better game and fewer penalties in the future.) Agreed 100%. But there is one thing I need to express to you: You should not underestimate Cherry's influence on the fans of hockey, and to lesser degree, the game of hockey. The point of your article was that dinosaurs like Cherry will not win the battle to turn back the NHL clock. Agreed, maybe. In your article you sort of lumped MacLean in with him ... I don't agree with that, but that's not my point. I just wanted to show you a new angle of what Cherry's influence is on hockey fans. I would bet that more people attend his Saturday night sermons in this country than people who go to church on Sunday. But of course not all of his flock agree with him on everything he says. I, for one, disagree with at least half of his tripe. However, like Cherry, and like millions of others in the US and Canada who's voices are lost in the wind, I am a hockey fan that becomes anxious at the constant erosion of rough-housing and toughness in hockey. (I won't go into my reasoning why, that is another topic.) Whenever some un-Cherry like event happens in the NHL - when a European tries to kick another player, when a Swede defenseman takes out Neely's knee and gets away with it, when a game degenerates into a slash-fest at the end because the refs tried to bottle up the player's emotions - whenever something like that happens, I know there is BUT ONE place in the world that I can go to commiserate with all the millions of others who are equally as angered ... and that is Coaches Corner on CBC. And those millions include everyone who disagrees with him on 75% of what he says, yet misses the rough stuff. ***It's just like the family fire drill: When there is smoke we will all meet in the front yard by the mail box.*** Cherry is a fortress in the desert. The sand blowing around, trying to burry him, but he is still there. His opinion does not waver. Cherry will say what is on his mind and he doesn't care if he pisses off his bosses because he is un-fireable. (In the entire world of North American sports he is quite unique in that way.) Don Cherry is the meeting point for the multitudes that have no voice on the micro-managing of the tougher side of the game. Example: If Don Cherry said on Coaches Corner to everyone who was fed up with instigator rule to write in or email the NHL and he provided the addresses ... mark my words, they would receive over a million emails and letters. It would be a flood. And the NHL simply could not ignore that sort of customer outcry. No way. That's influence. And even though he doesn't use it to it's full potential, Cherry's influence is still huge. I swear to God, it makes sense in my mind ... the NHL is waiting for him to die. After he is gone, there will be no one left to be the ONE VOICE for all us fans of the old NHL. When he dies, look for the NHL to make their push to outlaw fighting altogether. Which is silly and makes short-sighted, bad business sense ... but that's another topic. I doubt you actually read and digested all these words, but if you made it this far, thanks for the ear. J Nacci Vancouver Mr Cox,

I don’t disagree with you about the benefits of the new rules. Also, unlike many hockey fans, I agree with the saying “If it’s a penalty in the first period, it should be a penalty in overtime.” I also agree with Colin Campbell that in order to make an omelette you will have to break some eggs. (i.e., more penalties now, mean a better game and fewer penalties in the future.) Agreed 100%. But there is one thing I need to express to you: You should not underestimate Cherry’s influence on the fans of hockey, and to lesser degree, the game of hockey.

The point of your article was that dinosaurs like Cherry will not win the battle to turn back the NHL clock. Agreed, maybe. In your article you sort of lumped MacLean in with him … I don’t agree with that, but that’s not my point. I just wanted to show you a new angle of what Cherry’s influence is on hockey fans.

I would bet that more people attend his Saturday night sermons in this country than people who go to church on Sunday. But of course not all of his flock agree with him on everything he says. I, for one, disagree with at least half of his tripe.

However, like Cherry, and like millions of others in the US and Canada who’s voices are lost in the wind, I am a hockey fan that becomes anxious at the constant erosion of rough-housing and toughness in hockey. (I won’t go into my reasoning why, that is another topic.) Whenever some un-Cherry like event happens in the NHL - when a European tries to kick another player, when a Swede defenseman takes out Neely’s knee and gets away with it, when a game degenerates into a slash-fest at the end because the refs tried to bottle up the player’s emotions - whenever something like that happens, I know there is BUT ONE place in the world that I can go to commiserate with all the millions of others who are equally as angered … and that is Coaches Corner on CBC. And those millions include everyone who disagrees with him on 75% of what he says, yet misses the rough stuff. ***It’s just like the family fire drill: When there is smoke we will all meet in the front yard by the mail box.*** Cherry is a fortress in the desert. The sand blowing around, trying to burry him, but he is still there. His opinion does not waver. Cherry will say what is on his mind and he doesn’t care if he pisses off his bosses because he is un-fireable. (In the entire world of North American sports he is quite unique in that way.) Don Cherry is the meeting point for the multitudes that have no voice on the micro-managing of the tougher side of the game.

Example: If Don Cherry said on Coaches Corner to everyone who was fed up with instigator rule to write in or email the NHL and he provided the addresses … mark my words, they would receive over a million emails and letters. It would be a flood. And the NHL simply could not ignore that sort of customer outcry. No way.

That’s influence. And even though he doesn’t use it to it’s full potential, Cherry’s influence is still huge.

I swear to God, it makes sense in my mind … the NHL is waiting for him to die. After he is gone, there will be no one left to be the ONE VOICE for all us fans of the old NHL. When he dies, look for the NHL to make their push to outlaw fighting altogether. Which is silly and makes short-sighted, bad business sense … but that’s another topic.

I doubt you actually read and digested all these words, but if you made it this far, thanks for the ear.

J Nacci
Vancouver

]]> by: Jnacci http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/126#comment-147 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:22:11 +0000 http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/126#comment-147 You are so damn right that the media sees it from a different POV, and usually that viewpoint is in the minority. They can't see the forest because they are in it. Think lockout! About 75% of them were on the side of the players union. They were so close (and their careers so tightly linked) to the inner workings of the NHL and NHLPA that they couldn't see the big picture. The fans could. We saw that the NHLPA was a little bit more full of shit than the NHL in that showdown. Yet the media dismissed the fan polls and the call in shows that clearly showed what we thought. They actually said, many a time, (I heard it on the TV and on the radio here) "it doesn't really matter what the fans think". And they were right. Because we had no real voice in the matter. But in the matter of rules changes and the erosion of animosity and emotion in the NHL, we DO have voice ... literally ... one very loud voice ... and his name is Don Cherry. Following is the letter that I wrote to "Coxy". You are so damn right that the media sees it from a different POV, and usually that viewpoint is in the minority. They can’t see the forest because they are in it.

Think lockout! About 75% of them were on the side of the players union. They were so close (and their careers so tightly linked) to the inner workings of the NHL and NHLPA that they couldn’t see the big picture. The fans could. We saw that the NHLPA was a little bit more full of shit than the NHL in that showdown. Yet the media dismissed the fan polls and the call in shows that clearly showed what we thought. They actually said, many a time, (I heard it on the TV and on the radio here) “it doesn’t really matter what the fans think”. And they were right. Because we had no real voice in the matter.

But in the matter of rules changes and the erosion of animosity and emotion in the NHL, we DO have voice … literally … one very loud voice … and his name is Don Cherry.

Following is the letter that I wrote to “Coxy”.

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