SHAWINIGAN, Que. - Don Cherry is about to get throttled by Jean Chretien's ''Shawinigan handshake.'' An illustration of Chretien choking the hockey personality will grace the label of a microbrew beer named after the ex-PM's notorious stranglehold. Chretien said Friday the image will resemble the famous photo of him grabbing protester Bill Clennett by the throat in 1996. The move was dubbed the "Shawinigan handshake" — after Chretien's Quebec hometown. He said that in the days after the incident Cherry publicly supported him on Hockey Night in Canada for, literally, taking matters into his own hands. With that in mind, Chretien said he recently invited the TV hockey analyst to be featured on the label of a beer that will be released during next month's Memorial Cup — in Shawinigan. "Don Cherry had loved it that I grabbed a protester by the neck," Chretien said with pride. "So I said, 'It's your turn, you will be the victim of that,' and he has accepted (the invitation). "So, on the label of the beer it will be Chretien grabbing Don Cherry by the neck."
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