Good riddance

[sabotabby]

Spicy take: Don Cherry was always garbage and we're all lucky that he's 85 or he'd be PM right now. Literally the only good thing about him was that dog, and the dog died years ago.

Chipotle take: Ron MacLean is worse because the only thing worse than a racist is a racist who's also a hypocrite and an enabler. Literally the bar for white dudes in this country is milquetoast "racism is bad" and he can't even manage that unless his career's at stake.

Ghost pepper take: Men's hockey sucks anyway; women's hockey requires way more skill and is more interesting to watch.

Comments

[dewline]

Maybe with Cherry and MacLean (not sure of this happening yet) going away, we get better commentary from better people?

[frenzy]

I like hockey but def seems to be fucking full of trash humans :/

[joymoose]

People are like "Don Cherry can't be fired because Justin Trudeau still has a job".

I love how no one can even imagine the possibility that neither Don Cherry nor Justin Trudeau deserved/s their job.

I love them to replace him with one of the retired women's hockey's players and then trend overtime to broadcasting 50/50 men and women's hockey. Like, I'm still not going to watch but a lot of people I know love men and women's hockey equally given a chance.

[franklanguage]

I wanna hear the Carolina reaper take!

[mallorys_camera]

So funny! My first take on "Don Cherry" was the jazz trumpeter. 😀 Had to Google before I could figure out why Don Cherry was garbage. 😀

[dragonlady7]

ayyyyy ghost pepper take is CORRECT

[wlach]

Cherry was terrible, even putting his garbage political views and racism aside for a moment, his not-so-tacit endorsement of violence within the game was appalling. I anticipate liking hockey a lot more without him in the picture.

I'm not sure if I should really cut MacLean that much slack, but at least he issued what seems like a genuine apology.

[radiantfracture]

All correct.

[springheel_jack]

Nashville is weirdly a hockey town, because we have a pro hockey team and pro football and that's it apart from the soccer which nobody cares about. And in my opinion hockey is something about which I have no opinion or interest

[notasupervillain]

I'm not sure what flavour to give this but: Watching hockey is often a social obligation, as sports is one of the ways that people of distinct social groups can forge connections around a common bond. However, watching men's hockey knowing that fighting is encouraged by the league and is leading to horrific mental and physical consequences to the workers, is morally wrong. Necessary in many social contexts, but still morally wrong.