We Must Say Goodbye to the Pride of St. Catherines

Rick Jeanneret’s Voice Was The Sound of a Hockey Fan's Joy

You will be forgiven if you think Buffalo is a football town. It probably seems that way, but it’s not. It’s a hockey town.

Buffalo kids don’t come home from school and throw a football around. They strap huge pads to their legs, drag a white net strung over orange tubes out of the garage, and with the agility of an Olympic gymnast, block tennis balls until dinner.

Buffalo WANTS a Super Bowl win, but it NEEDS a Stanley Cup.

A big part of that is the fact that the Buffalo Sabres games featured Rick Jeanneret, the greatest play-by-play man in NHL history. Jeanneret was to the NHL what Vin Scully was to MLB and John Madden was to the NFL.

Here are some highlights.

RIP Rick. I hope you found the cookies. Have as many as you want.