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Sen. David Richards: Hockey Icon Don Cherry Deserves the Order of Canada

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Sen. David Richards: Hockey Icon Don Cherry Deserves the Order of Canada
Hockey commentator Don Cherry reports prior to the Pittsburgh Penguins playing the Detroit Red Wings during Game Two of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals at Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan, on May 31, 2009. Getty Images/ Jim McIsaac
Sen. David Richards
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In 1998, the year Canada’s men didn’t medal in hockey during the winter Olympics, many reporters came out against Mr. Don Cherry—blaming his vision of the game for the failure of our players.

Sen. David Richards
Sen. David Richards
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David Adams Richards is an award-winning novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and poet based in New Brunswick. He has won the Governor General’s Literary Award in both the fiction and non-fiction categories and he is a winner of the Giller Prize. He is a member of the Order of New Brunswick and the Order of Canada, and was appointed to the Senate in 2017.
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