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Morning Flurries: Don Cherry’s departure

The heavily-injured Colorado Avalanche were given a nice, much needed two-day rest over the long weekend, getting both Sunday and Monday off of the game schedule before heading back into action later on tonight.

But while the Avalanche had a fairly quiet weekend, the rest of the league certainly didn’t.

Saturday night saw one of hockey’s longest-running public figureheads ignite a firestorm, as Don Cherry — former Boston Bruins and Colorado Rockies head coach and 30-plus year veteran of the broadcasting segment Coach’s Corner — took the opportunity to use the segment to blast foreigners in Canada for not wearing Remembrance Day Poppies.