Don Cherry was fired after an anti-immigrant rant on Hockey Night in Canada's Coaches Corner segment, on November 11, 2019, which he refused to apologize. MacLean did apologize though, saying the next day that Cherry's comments were "hurtful, discriminatory… [and] flat out wrong." The 62-year-old still works as a broadcaster for Sportsnet, which has produced Hockey Night in Canada since 2014. Cherry said in the aftermath that he was "disappointed" in MacLean. They haven't been friends since, despite an on-air relationship that lasted over 30 years.