Movie Review: sort of.. Keep Your Head Up , Kid - Don Cherry Story

The movie was good considering it was a CBC made for tv feature. 2 parter , 4 hours total.. probably 2 3/4 hours overall without commercials. Very entertaining. I was glued to the show.

I want to comment on some the stuff they portrayed that I didnt know or just forgot.

- Don Cherry blew his chance at an NHL career with a tragic yet bonehead baseball injury in the offseason. He was a bright prospect for the Bruins , dislocated his shoulder and showed up to camp hurt. In those days there is zero sympathy for injuries. His second chance with the LEads blown caz he went after Ron Ellis , the Leafs golden boy.

- Don Cherry coached the Vancouver's AHL affiliate team in Rochester. A) I didnt know the he coached for the Canucks technically and the Canucks gave him his pro coaching break with the Americans. But i now know why he has a disdain ill feeling towards the franchise , they treated him like crap. Tried hard to make him the scape goat and handle him like a puppeteer. Firing him despite doing a good job.

- I didnt know Cherry was also the GM of the Rochester Americans along with being coach the next season as an indepedant AHL team. Meaning no prospects from NHL clubs , he had to recruit the entire roster going camp to camp asking for cast offs. He turned a journeymen tough guy Battleship Kelly into a serviceable NHLer and from a business point of view , signed him for 7500 bucks and sold him to St.Louis for 50K.

- HIs personal work with JOhn Weinsink and making him a personal project and turned him into a respectable NHL name. The guy scored 27 goals in one season for the Bruins.

- Overall his personal life was always private so seeing anything to do with Rose and his kids was new.

In the end I see Cherry with a slightly different light , Im not suprised with anything I was merely enlightened.