Top Shelf: Sweet suit, Don Cherry
ESPN, NHL, Top Shelf May 10th. 2008, 1:05pmLee Diekemper is here for your hockey pleasure.ÂÂ
Don Cherry made his ESPN debut. His pearls of wisdom were not a shock: The Flyers didn’t rough up the Pens enough and the empty seats at Joe Louis Arena have nothing to do with the Detroit economy but everything to do with a lack of fighting. Meanwhile, on to last night’s game:
Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 2:
Fittingly in the Battle of Pennsylvania, the Pens fans went all Penn State with a whiteout. It was too much Evgeni Malkin for the Flyers. The Russian the Flyers couldn’t stop was a one-man gang in the first period. He assisted on Petr Sykora’s goal to open the game. In the final five minutes of the period Malkin threaded the needle to get a puck behind Marty Biron and hammered a blistering slap shot at point-blank range with seven seconds left in the first. If that’s not bad enough news for the Flyers, injured Pens’ center Max Talbot is expected to return. Pittsburgh leads series 1-0.
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May 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Don Cherry’s apparently on his way to a Luau after the interview
May 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
i was in c-29 which was directly facing cherry, and while he was doing his on ice thing the arena was silent, because it was the start of the pregame video. not sure why he did it then. but the silence gave me a nice opportunity to belt out an epic ‘hey fuck you cherry’
rough night for the flyers fans in front of me too
May 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
If Don Cherry thinks Detroit is a redneck town, we’ll have to send him to introduce him to parts of the American southeast.