So Elliote Friedman and Kelly Hrudey highlighting goals affected by defencemen's sticks was an example of the old boys club endorsing a "old, senile, racist"?
Mods...How in the hell does this pass for allowable commentary?
Friedman is Jewish. Hrudey is no one's puppet. Both, using information that could be gleaned from replays agreed with Don Cherry's last salient assessment.
He - Don Cherry - also referred to Ovechkin as a "horse", I believe? Is that in any way shape or form the kind of comment you'd expect from an old, senile, racist? Or does that sound like a person accurately describing Ovechkin in plainly understandable English?
The man has ROUTINELY championed Kadri (a Lebanese-Canadian who happens to be muslim...), Wayne Simmonds, Jordan Tootoo, Dustin Byfuglien, Ted Nolan...And I wouldn't give a damn if he DIDN'T. The point is he does not behave like a racist and there's not a snowball's chance in hell that he'd survive on the CBC if he did.
Mindless mob.