PASabreFan

This I pledge to you, a better beef on weck. Hear it in the voice of JFK. You're welcome. Was that when the Tron crashed?

So if Pat was doing radio with Rick in 74-75, who was alongside Ted? There's a Wiki page of Sabres broadcasters that has Ted and Pat together that year. Apparently not accurate. Remember that Rick acknowledged his late broadcast partner Hannigan on RJ Night.

I think for a lot of people it will be a wry smile.

What's the circular rocket icon on the bottom left of our username images? Color me slightly impressed that the NHL is reasonably close to the NBA and MLB.

By the same token you could play Ted's "fan from ..." bit whenever the puck lands in the crowd.

You sign him if he's better than the player whose position he takes. I continue to smh.

I like that one. "And here we go" at puck drop. This is more subtle stuff than all the blaring goals calls strung together. A funny one would be Rick's snarky "whenever..." when the linesman refuses to drop the puck. "And the game is over!" Otherwise it's time to put Dan front and center. The franchise needs to step out of the past.

That sounds sketchy for sure.

R.I.F.

I might have to recant. I was probably thinking of Demonic/Satanic Goathead.

Jim Kelley's ashes just flashed (if he was cremated). If not he rolled over in his grave.

I have to disagree. It's time to move on from tying the present day team so directly to Rick. We also have to think of Dan here. He's the man now. And are you asking if the Sabres would have the material for such a "hype video"?

I seek them out. I just went searching again to see if there was anything worth posting here. Out of nowhere and on a site I'd never heard of came this gem. The best capturing I've seen so far: https://defector.com/rick-jeannerets-voice-gave-buffalo-hope

Well they used to say couples eventually resembled each other bc that's what they looked at for 45 or 65 years. Think about what we're all actually looking at all days on our screens. It's generally pretty ugly. Is it any wonder our faces are becoming contorted? BTW Swamp is hot af.

Lol. True. But thought of Rick's arm being passed and lifted through and above the melee following Dylan Cozens' Cup winning goal in OT gives me more than a little randy wood.

Our Tops has had the same lobster for 17 years. Lanny has a gray goatee, round spectacles and the tendency to slam his rubber-banded claw against the glass when little kids stare.

I hear stories about Rick meeting people here and there and sometimes in the pavilion before the game. Still, I bet most people never shook his hand. So I might retract my opinion that Rick needs to be perched above us. How 'bout a life sized Jeanneret (25 years and about 60 pounds ago) just inside the doors? He can have his mic in his left hand and the look that Bob Swados once called delirious agony (he was writing about the emotions of watching a Sabres playoff game, not Rick). The right hand can be extended so that fans for generations can slap or touch or "shake" it. Two hands... almost Lincolnesque. The base can simply be inscribed, "I love you."

Not for nothing, when pressed into pbp duty, he was also excellent. Rick got sick during a game against Munreal in 1983 and had to go home. Jim took over, then did at least one more game as Rick recuped. Rick missed a game or two with laryngitis in 1992-1993. He tried to call the game in Hamilton before saying, "I can't do this anymore." I can't say for sure if Jim took over that time. But I'm almost certain he called games on two occasions at least. Rick missed so few games... He was an absolute force of nature.

I always liked Perreault's cool aloofness. I bet the modern life of an NHL franchise player would be tough for him. Having to sit between two Skinners and such. Also @That Aud Smell, good word: maudlin.

No idea. Does the sugar play a role?

Bruce Martyn?

I'd rather put Rick up there with three other hockey announcers. There have been so many greats. To say Rick was the best is a bit over the top. He stands among Foster Hewitt, Danny Gallivan, Mike Emrick and few others. I think of Pat Foley in Chicago, Mike Lange in Pittsburgh and Chuck Kaiton in Hartford/Carolina.

lmao