PASabreFan

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

And if you need a cucumber just let me know.

Yes. And that's what I should have used as the half and half is too thick/fatty. I think you want a somewhat lighter and looser sauce. Give it a try, my friend.

Rick at ground level doesn't feel right. He has to be perched somewhere. Maybe looking down at the foot traffic from the face of the arena. Or incorporated into the press box somehow.

Stop thinking outside the box. It's annoying.

Erik Brady of USA Today (and Buffalo) talked about a statue for Rick. I'd sculpt him as a player. He was, after all, the greatest Sabre in history.

I think the nicest tribute that could be paid to Rick on opening night is to simply have his family and friends come out and Cupcake can drop the puck. No more blaring NOW DO YOU BELIEVEs. We've done it enough. He was more than that. The patch is a nice idea. Maybe something on the ice. I also like the idea of a moment of noise. Certainly not silence!

I was given a homegrown cucumber (you stop it, @inkman). I sliced it as thin as possible (I have no knife skills or decent knives so it is what it is). Left the skin on. Added half and half, EVOO, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar. This is my interpretation of a cuke salad my mom made. She got the cukes very thin and did peel them. Just regular vinegar I think and certainly no EVOO. Whole milk instead of half and half. She added thinly sliced onions. Not much to write home about but then you found it in the back of the fridge five days later and it was heaven. Just tasted the sauce. I'm no gourmand, but it's really good.

Maybe Bettman. I don't think the owner is involved. How about this. Bettman walks out the thunderous boos. He starts and stops and starts and stops. Finally he says fine, you do it, Rick. And Rick comes on the video screen. Again I pray someone thought to ask Rick to record the magic words.

I gotta say that my elderly residents at work last night were all about this game. Honestly it could have been the Super Bowl to them. One fella was beyond himself at the Bills play. I rolled my eyes a few times. It's like they found a way to use their flip phones to register on here. Chillax, Bills broskis.

Suspenders? Goal song is clip of Rodney Dangerfield insulting a cocktail waitress he met in Jersey? Stop teasing us with that 11 of yours!

Not sure why this of all comments brought tears: Jason Woolley said that Rick's was the voice heard round the hockey world. Perfect. His calls stuck to players. Twenty four years later it came back to Jason.