Jeanneret predicts that he will retire after next season.

[darksabre]

11 hours ago, Eleven said:

This is very well written, LTS.  I, too, preferred Darling to Jeanneret when I was little.  He was on TV!  TV was the pinnacle, right?

But when it came to bedtime, there was no TV.  It was the late 1970s and early 1980s, and televisions in bedrooms were a luxury for parents.  We kids didn't have them (unless we were really really sick, like chicken pox or something, in which case the portable B&W came in).  But radios were ok, so I grew up with Jeanneret.  Well, until Mom came in shut off the radio and took the earphone out.

True story:  I thought the Bruins had a player named "Dork."

This was the same for me in the 90s. Jeanneret on my walkman, trying to stay awake to hear the end of the game. I distinctly remember the series against Ottawa in 97. Effing Ron Tugnutt. 

[Stoner]

10 hours ago, gomper said:

Please. Why not bring in Kevin Sylvester while your at it. Pegs should just write a  monster check to Chris Cuthbert and be done with it.

Pegs doesn't care about having a good play by play guy. He cares about having good, fine, young men, Pegula People, representing him. He would have never hired a young, wild and woolly Jeanneret, who smoked, drank and spoke of jock straps on the air.

[Kruppstahl]

On 4/11/2020 at 6:44 AM, nucci said:

they need to replace Ray

Or at least send him back to the "box" at ice level as the 3rd man in a 3 man team.  He was actually good in that role.

RJ should have retired several years ago.  He's nothing close to what he was.  

I'm not looking forward to the Dan Dunleavy era, which might very well last a long time.

I can see RJ trying to get it to 50 years and then saying "that's enough."

 

 

 

 

[Stoner]

7 hours ago, nfreeman said:

Interesting.  I must've missed it.

Here it is. Quite an ink blot test.

Tonight is my final HOME game pxp call on @MSGNetwork for the season. I always love living this dream with the home crowd behind a call. Thanks in advance for the privilege & opportunity, to the home crew, & those who have had encouraging words. #Sabres50

[Pimlach]

My opinion is that Darling in his prime was a better play by play man, with a smoother voice, than RJ.    If you are not from Buffalo, RJ is an acquired taste.  He is a real HOF guy, no doubt, but his ability to be a character, and say classic things, is what makes him great.  
 

Dan Kelly, the former voice of the St Louis Blues, was the voice of the NHL in the early expansion days - when they Went to 12 teams and played national TV games every Sunday afternoon (after football ended which was much earlier than it does now).    Kelly was excellent and so is his son, who happens to be the voice of the Blues today.  Very smooth tempo and he knows the game and paints a picture of it.   Another thing Kelly does, he knows and announces the opposing teams players by name as easily as his Blues.  Something RJ is slipping at in his advanced age.  

All I know for sure is that I will miss RJ when he finally steps down.  It’s a shame he never got to call a Cup victory.  

Edited April 12, 2020 by Pimlach

[Marvin]

I have the Winter 1996 copy of Hockey Stars magazine that named RJ as one of the best things in the NHL:

[...] Hands down, Jeanneret is the best play-by-play man in the NHL -- and he's so far ahead of the rest that there's no second best.  He can make a boring game sound exciting and an exciting game sound like a life-or-death struggle. [...]

[nfreeman]

6 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

Here it is. Quite an ink blot test.

Tonight is my final HOME game pxp call on @MSGNetwork for the season. I always love living this dream with the home crowd behind a call. Thanks in advance for the privilege & opportunity, to the home crew, & those who have had encouraging words. #Sabres50

Thanks.  Was that a tweet, or did he say that on the air?  (And if the latter, did you have it memorized??)

[Stoner]

1 minute ago, nfreeman said:

Thanks.  Was that a tweet, or did he say that on the air?  (And if the latter, did you have it memorized??)

Tweet. I'm not good at making it look all tweet-like.

[Billznut]

On 4/10/2020 at 7:37 PM, Wyldnwoody44 said:

If this team makes it that far in the next few years (not holding my breath) and the sabres don't in some way include Rick (a partial game call, day with the cup, something) then I will wash my hands of the organization. 

Won’t surprise me at all.  Interns running the ship at PSE

[Billznut]

On 4/12/2020 at 12:06 PM, PASabreFan said:

Pegs doesn't care about having a good play by play guy. He cares about having good, fine, young men, Pegula People, representing him. He would have never hired a young, wild and woolly Jeanneret, who smoked, drank and spoke of jock straps on the air.

You’re right about everything you said, except it isn’t Terry who thinks this way, it’s Kim. 

[LTS]

On 4/12/2020 at 5:14 PM, PASabreFan said:

Here it is. Quite an ink blot test.

Tonight is my final HOME game pxp call on @MSGNetwork for the season. I always love living this dream with the home crowd behind a call. Thanks in advance for the privilege & opportunity, to the home crew, & those who have had encouraging words. #Sabres50

To me that reads that RJ is scheduled for the rest of the home games... that's all.

[Kruppstahl]

Ted Darling is Roger Moore to RJ's Sean Connery.

 

 

[Taro T]

9 minutes ago, Kruppstahl said:

Ted Darling is Roger Moore to RJ's Sean Connery.

 

 

Pretty sure you've got that backwards.  (Both chronologically & stylistically.)

And btw, Gurtler WAS Lazenby.

[Eleven]

Just now, Taro T said:

Pretty sure you've got that backwards.  (Both chronologically & stylistically.)

And btw, Gurtler WAS Lazenby.

Nah even Lazenby got with Emanuelle.

[Taro T]

Just now, Eleven said:

Nah even Lazenby got with Emanuelle.

Lazenby got rejected on the beach.  That never happened to the other chap. ?

He also got MARRIED.

His Bond was soooooooo not Bond.

 

And Lazenby got with Emanuelle when she was like 50.  Big whoop.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

8 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Lazenby got rejected on the beach.  That never happened to the other chap. ?

He also got MARRIED.

His Bond was soooooooo not Bond.

 

And Lazenby got with Emanuelle when she was like 50.  Big whoop.

You can't be serious, eh?

[Taro T]

1 minute ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

You can't be serious, eh?

This is JAMES ####ing BOND we're talking about.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

2 minutes ago, Taro T said:

This is JAMES ####ing BOND we're talking about.

Yeah.  So?  What?

[Taro T]

1 minute ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

Yeah.  So?  What?

Sylvia Kristel was 'meh' as far as soft core porno queens rate when she was in her prime.  By the time she was the old geezer having flashbacks in the '90's, why even bother? 

And did we mention, he's supposed to be JAMES ####ing BOND!  James Bond throws chicks like that back for bad hair days.

And 11 is evil for turning this tangent about how awful & short lived Gurtler's tenure was into a further tangent about whether Sylvia Kristel became Stacy's Mom.  (Btw, she didn't. ? )

[Zamboni]

Happy Birthday RJ!!!

 

[bob_sauve28]

On 4/11/2020 at 6:44 AM, nucci said:

they need to replace Ray

That barnacle is never leaving. He’s attached himself deep into the organization and has lots of friends. No talent hack 

[Doohicksie]

On 4/10/2020 at 6:27 PM, darksabre said:

I love Rick. Like, real love. When he retires I'm going to cry. His voice is a piece of my soul. 

We're never going to be satisfied that the Sabres didn't win a Cup with him on the call. Hopefully they manage to at least win one in his lifetime. He deserves to see that happen. 

Who knows... maybe he's cursed and that's *why* the Sabres never won the Cup.

 

 

I'll let myself out.

On 4/10/2020 at 7:45 PM, Eleven said:

Because Neale wasn't horrible

Actually yes he was.

[Gatorman0519]

Honestly one of the greats. But the man can’t do his trademark yell anymore. It’s almost painful to listen to for those of us from back in the day. 

[Spun]

On 4/10/2020 at 9:17 PM, Taro T said:

It'll be sad seeing him step away full time, but IMHO it would be even sadder for him to go out as Van Miller did - a true shell of himself.

We can't have all 3 announcing legends leave after they significantly passed their prime.  (Fortunately for Chuck Healey, the Braves left before he went to pot.)

Didn’t Chuck Healy do the Braves TV games and Van did the Braves radio call?

[Hoss]

Hopefully we can get something for him at the deadline