text: 10 years ago or so I had given up on Hockey Night in Canada because it didn't matter what important things were happening, the cbc was going to "bless" all of Canada by shoving the laffs down our throat. So, like many I just stopped watching. Except, 45 minutes after the puck dropped I would religiously turn on coaches corner. It was both entertaining and often profound. 
  
  These days, I'm glued to the screen on Saturday nights as thankfully the control of who sees which games has been yanked from cbc.  Now, as often as not I don't bother with coaches corner as there is never anything worth listening to. The saddest thing in the world are old fools who don't know when to quit. Dollars to doughnuts if cops were shooting old drunk Irishmen with poofy last names for sport cherry would be on his knee but fast.
  
  Save what little is left of your dignity and retire Don and please take bob cole with you. The minimum we should expect is an announcer who can remember the players names.