Don Cherry Blog Entry

Blog Entry- Don Cherries Hockey Stories and Stuff

This book was quite well written for someone I didn’t know could write. It shows through the whole book how to not get bugged by the critics because everyone would always be upset about the commentary that cherry has done. He shows in the book how commentary has become a good job for cherry, because he really understands how to get the message out. Some people think that some of those messages are a little uncanny, at times quite outrageous too.

The Themes in the novel was Hockey Coaching, while coached in the major league he was ranked first as the coach of the National Hockey league with over 60% of the votes. As well as social hierarchy when he was nominated as the 4th greatest Canadian of all time.

The novel is spoken through third person because there are no character to this novel it is just his feelings towards hockey and its players, and decisions. It is all through a commentary point of view. Yes it was quite affective because it was just him being him and talking about himself throughout his life, and the things he has accomplished.

The book gave me another perspective on Don Cherry as a person. At first you judge him because what you hear and see from him on Hockey Night in Canada. Also he taught me some things that I didn’t know about the NHL and its rules while he was coaching and was a player. I think he does make a difference to adolescents because he is on a Saturday night in the first intermission. Lots of people watch hockey night in Canada all over the nation, and he is quite a known source of coach’s corner.

I don’t think the novel had anything that we have learned in class and is more controversial book that has good stories about his life.

I think the author could have talked more about hockey, and how to play the game more than anything. I think Don Cherry could give lots of helpful hints and instructions to get that extra edge on the ice. But other than that I thought he did a good job on telling his career through the communitarian point of view pretty much the whole novel.

I would recommend this novel to anyone who was interested in hockey and doesn’t have a point of view on Cherry. As well if anyone wants to learn something about his life and the things he has gone through in his career. As well as the historic events he has made in Canadians lives. If you want to hear the 4th greatest Canadian write a novel than hear you go.