Don Cherry Quote

You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned. It's unbelievable that it's not a suspension. What it did, it gave meat to everybody that's against the National Hockey League—this'll be the poster boy…[while showing clips of controversial hits by Cooke over the years] You think he'd do this stuff against [Wayne] Gretzky, if [Dave] Semenko was there? Do you think he'd do this against [Steve] Yzerman if [Bob] Probert was there? No, that's what I'm trying to tell you, he wouldn't do that stuff.


On the March 13, 2010 edition of Coach's Corner discussing Pittsburgh Penguins left winger Matt Cooke's blindside hit on Boston Bruins forward Marc Savard on March 7, 2010.


You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned. It's...

You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned. It's...

You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned. It's...

You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned. It's...