Don Cherry apologizes for rant

A week after his rant on Coach’s Corner, Don Cherry is apologizing to the insulted hockey players. Stu Grimson, Chris Nilan and Jim Thomson are the offended ex-players. 

Cherry says he was wrong on a lot of things and that he is sorry. He’s apologizing for calling them pukes and turncoats. He also admits to being wrong when he said Nilan and Grimson link fighting with drug abuse.

In the rant, Cherry accused the men of saying fighting should be taken out of hockey. He also called them hypocrites and said they didn’t want other players to benefit from fighting.

Grimson denied saying he wanted fighting gone from hockey and that he had drug problems. Nilan said he has drug issues, but he doesn’t blame them on hockey. But Thomson says fighting should be removed from hockey. He also blames his drug addictions on fighting.