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Don Cherry will be inducted into the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame in Parry Sound, Ont. this Saturday, along with Orr's father, the late Doug Orr, Parry Sound native and former Clarkson University hockey player Jim Mathews and Special Olympian Tim Vancoughnett, also from Parry Sound.
How long will it be before Cherry is honoured with the Hall of Fame's Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, a lifetime achievement honour for hockey broadcasters as voted on by the NHL broadcasters association?
If you take a glance at the list of winners for the 25-year-old Hewitt Award, it has been bestowed mainly on play-by-play announcers. There were two exceptions, Brian McFarlane and Howie Meeker, were named the Hewitt Award winners in 1995 and 1998, respectively. It's time that not only Cherry, 74, join the group, but more analysts in the future.
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R Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: The main difference is that Brian McFarlane and Howie Meeker were good, objective hockey analysts...
Cheers.- Posted 09/07/08 at 9:58 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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