from Christopher Foulds of Kamloops This Week,

Another time, MacLean described an incident in which Cherry’s unfiltered vocabulary inadvertently landed in the ears of millions of viewers.

In the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, Cherry had been miffed that Team Canada GM Glen Sather had not dressed Steve Yzerman through the first two games. In Game 3, Yzerman finally saw action and scored the winning goal against Slovakia.

As Stevie Y left the ice to be interviewed by MacLean and Cherry, The Coach pumped his fist and approached the Detroit Red Wing captain.

“Atta boy, Stevie boy!” Cherry said. “Way to stick it up their ass!”

Little did Cherry know the cameras were already running.

“He didn’t mean the Slovaks,” MacLean said of Cherry’s posterior pronouncement. “He meant Sather for not dressing him.”

MacLean also touched on his relationship with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman which, based on his testy interviews with the man, seems frosty.

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