An excellent episode of The Don Cherry’s Grapevine Podcast is out, with legendary hockey coach and commentator Don Cherry and his co-host son Tim going over the history of NHL crease crashers and goalie abusers, from Gary Dornhoefer of the Broad Street Bullies and Wayne Cashman of the Big, Bad Bruins from the truculent 1970s to their modern day incarnation, Sam Bennett of the Florida Panthers. Article content

Cherry, an elder statesman of NHL commentary having played, watched, coached and commented on hockey for almost all of his 91 years, offered up that in all his years he’d never seen refereeing so poor as in Game 2 of the Edmonton Oilers -Florida Panthers series. Article content Article content

“That was the worst refereed game I think I ever saw,” Cherry said, “It was that o

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