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# Don Cherry: NHL concussion spotters are "dumb dumbs"
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/don-cherry-nhl-concussion-spotters-wideman-flames/
- Published: 2016-02-07T01:38:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-07T01:38:00.000Z
- Description: Cherry's stance on concussion protocols is backwards and ignorant.
- Author: Species
- Tags: #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:27

In tonight's Coach's Corner segment of Hockey Night in Canada Don Cherry commented on two incidents where the NHL's concussion protocol was initiated, expressing a bizarre and ignorant point of view.

During the [Maple Leafs](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/teams/toronto-maple-leafs?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) @ [Senators](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/teams/ottawa-senators?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) game [Tyler Bozak](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/players/71017/tyler-bozak?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) was hit with an elbow to the face. Bozak was escorted off the ice and sent to the quiet room for a concussion evaluation.

> Bozak to the locker room after this hit [pic.twitter.com/pFNrbAjAWW](https://t.co/pFNrbAjAWW?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Stephanie (@myregularface) [February 7, 2016](https://twitter.com/myregularface/status/696132471717568512?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) 

This upset Cherry who said:

Got some dumb dumb up there sayin' that Bozak can't come back .... it's unbelievable.

Only one minute later, Cherry appeared to take the opposite stance when it came to [Dennis Wideman](http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/players/54868/dennis-wideman?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com), saying he should have gone to the hospital after taking the hit.

Let me tell you who really screwed up. The organization screwed up. If I'm the coach in there I would have sent Wideman out in the hospital.

Hypocrisy? Possibly. But Cherry then added:

I guarantee you if he had gone in the hospital there'd have been no suspension.

Was circumventing the NHL discipline process all he was really concerned about?

This is yet another example of the [ignorance problem](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/nhls-wideman-suspension-explanation-exposes-broken-concussion-protocol/) Scott Wheeler has identified in the NHL.

### Don Cherry's comments are:

| Ignorant.       | 320 |
| --------------- | --- |
| Not a big deal. | 111 |