Ron MacLean and Don Cherry ended their friendship in a very public way. After Cherry was fired from HNiC, he asked MacLean to stand with him. Instead, MacLean made an apology, threw Cherry under the bus, and made a comeback.
He also noted that during the NHL All-Star Game in Sunrise, Florida, last February, he was joined by Kathy Broderick, Cherry's previous producer, and Kevin Bieksa, a fellow Sportsnet colleague, in calling Cherry.
"We all sent greetings. Then I phoned him when Mayor Hazel McCallion, the longtime mayor of Mississauga, passed away. I offered to take Don to the funeral, but it would have been, you know, a bit of an event if he were there. So he asked not to go. I phoned him again on June 1, on the anniversary of [Don's late wife] Rose's passing."
MacLean continued by saying that they often disagree, especially on politics, but they were never consumed by that.
