After Carolina's marketing department started selling $32 shirts with the three-word jab in the team store, he doubled down on the criticism.
The curmudgeonly commentator earlier this season called the Hurricanes "a bunch of jerks" for their choreographed Storm Surge celebrations on the ice after regular-season home victories. Well, maybe not everyone - at least, not Cherry. "Just seeing what we're doing for the whole city and kind of everyone's coming together to share it." "It's been a lot of fun so far, and I think the biggest thing is, you see the city's kind of come together and the fans, and everyone's been so involved and that makes a lot of fun too," said Hamilton - the player, not the pig. Let the Detroit Red Wings have their octopi, and the Nashville Predators their catfish. It's all come together in a phenomenon that's uniquely North Carolinian. He'll fill up countless Instagram feeds while posing for photos with dozens of fans - many of whom no doubt will wear the T-shirts that carry Don Cherry's "Bunch of Jerks" insult-turned-rallying cry.
He will make his rounds at the pregame tailgate parties that became a signature of this region during the team's run to the Stanley Cup in 2006. And when the Eastern Conference final with Boston shifts to Raleigh for Game 3 on Tuesday night, Hamilton will be back in his customary spot amid hopes the Hurricanes can rally from two games down in the best-of-seven series.
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