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| Don Cherry will be on the injured reserve list until his thumb has completely recovered. |
TORONTO– Legendary hockey icon and celebrity broadcaster Don Cherry has been placed on the injured reserve list, expected to be out of the Hockey Night In Canada line-up for at least six weeks following an unfortunate thumbs-upping incident.
CBC would only confirm that it was an “upper body injury”. They and Hockey Night In Canada denied that the injury was salary-cap related.
Cherry, one of the key hosts of Coach”s Corner, was reportedly injured during a charity hockey event in Brampton, Ontario, while raising his right hand in an attempt to give the crowd one of his trademark “thumb’s up”.
During the act of positioning this thumb in an upward style position, Cherry felt something pull, and immediately retracted his thumb from the “up” position back to a natural thumb position. Cherry has reported feeling some numbness in his right thumb, and a modest amount of dirt under his thumbnail, but is otherwise in good health.
Cherry has mostly been injury-free during his broadcasting career, however there was one occasion in 2001 when Cherry stuck his neck out, defending Canada’s hockey program amidst controversy over comments made about international competition.
With the thumb injury to Cherry, HNIC has had to shuffle their Saturday night line-up, and has called up long-time broadcasting veteran Steve Armitage. Until this week, Armitage had been doing rink-side interviews for a local Vancouver hockey beer league, despite being asked to leave the rink several times.
When asked how he felt about his current mood and feeling, Cherry attempted to give a thumb’s up, regretfully causing even further injury to his thumb.
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