Don Cherry: podcast appearances and interviews

Donald Stewart Cherry, born on February 5, 1934, is a Canadian former ice hockey player, coach, and television commentator. He played one game in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins and concluded his playing career in the American Hockey League. Cherry then coached the Boston Bruins for five seasons, leading the team to four division titles and two appearances in the Stanley Cup Final. He is widely recognized for his outspoken opinions, flamboyant dress, and his nickname Grapes. From 1986 to 2019, Cherry co-hosted Coach's Corner, a segment on CBC's Saturday-night NHL broadcast Hockey Night in Canada, with Ron MacLean, during which they hosted for 33 seasons. He also hosted Grapevine, a radio segment, from 1984 to 2019 and created and starred in the direct-to-video series Don Cherry's Rock'em Sock'em Hockey from 1989 to 2018. Cherry has been honored in various ways; he was voted the seventh-greatest Canadian of all time in 2004 in the CBC miniseries The Greatest Canadian. His life was dramatized in the CBC movies Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story and its sequel The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II. Cherry has expressed controversial political views, including criticism for remarks on Canada's support for the Iraq invasion and climate change denial. In November 2019, he was dismissed from Sportsnet for controversial statements perceived as anti-immigration, xenophobic, or racist about Canadian immigrants.