About this title: #1 National Bestseller Don Cherry has been named a National Hockey League Coach of the Year with a winning percentage of over .600 and also received Coach of the Year honours in the American Hockey League. His comments on "Hockey Night in Canada"'s "Coach's Corner" routinely make headlines as they entertain, educate, and often upset some fans throughout North America. He may be controversial, but no one can deny the popularity he enjoys; popularity that was reflected in his top 10 ranking in the competition to determine "The Greatest Canadian." Now from Grapes himself comes the book ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385666749ISBN:0385666748
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library DJ has marks, chipping & scuffs-Cover has marks, edgewear, light dents-Edgewear-Marks on edge-Few marks. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385666749ISBN:0385666748
Description: Very Good in Used: Very Good jacket. 2008. Doubleday Canada. Hardcover. Minor edge and corner wear. No store stamps, owner names, or other writings. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday of Canada
Date Published: 2008-10-28
ISBN-13:9780385666749ISBN:0385666748
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Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385666749ISBN:0385666748
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. Hardcover. Sound, clean & nice copy, light edgewear. Jacket is bright & clean, light to moderate rubbing/edgewear. Not price clipped. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385666749ISBN:0385666748
Description: New. #1 National Bestseller Don Cherry has been named a National Hockey League Coach of the Year with a winning percentage of over.600 and also received Coach of the Year honours in the American Hockey League. His comments on "Hockey Night in Canada"'s "... read more
"You have to like hockey and Grapes to read this book. It is written as he speaks, so if you can listen to the words in Cherry's voice, you will fly through it and be amused. If you can't, the grammar will drive you insane."
"Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff was a pleasant surprise. I've always enjoyed Cherry's commentary on Hockey Night In Canada, but I've also thought that he was a bit of a meathead. He's funny, somewhat insightful, a full-on Canadian redneck that loves being a redneck. When you look at the cover of the book, you get the feeling that it will somehow be the print version of his Rock 'em Sock 'em Greatest Hits video series. Instead, what you find inside is something completely different and the cover is very misleading and doesn't do the book justice.
The book is simply an unordered compilations of stories from Cherry, written exactly how he would tell it. There is no attempt to "correct" the grammar that Cherry uses. This turns out to be a brilliant idea, because Cherry is one of hockey's greatest story tellers and there is no better way to hear the story being told. The stories encompass all aspects of Cherry's life in hockey: his AHL career, NHL coaching career, life on tv and the CBC, his dog, his dad. While reading the book it is obvious that Cherry loves the hard hitting and brutal side of hockey, but what really struck me was just how much of a humanist Cherry is. The book is in perfect sync with the fallen soldier memorials that Cherry has at the end of his show on HNIC. There are many great stories in the book, such as coaching a Bruins team with Bobby Orr and Brad park, or getting in a fight and almost having his thumb bit off. What really sets the book apart though is how it shows Cherry's understanding of compassion and kindness."
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