BOSTON (AP) — Jack Edwards is retiring after 19 years because the Boston Bruins’ play-by-play announcer, the staff introduced Tuesday.
Edwards has described the place broadcasting for the Bruins on NESN as his “dream job,” which he began in 2005 after spending greater than a decade at ESPN. He’ll proceed calling Bruins video games via the top of the playoffs.
The 67-year-old Edwards has struggled lately with slowed speech, for which he has acquired remedy. He spoke concerning the challenge to The Boston Globe in February.
Edwards was acknowledged earlier than the Bruins’ regular-season finale towards the Ottawa Senators and introduced with a golden stick in honor of his almost 20 years with the staff. Edwards put his hand over his coronary heart in thanks and lifted the stick up as followers cheered through the pregame ceremony.
A New Hampshire native and a graduate of the College of New Hampshire, Edwards mentioned he grew up a Bruins fan and was grateful to complete out his 45-year broadcasting profession masking the membership.
“I retire from broadcasting not with a heavy coronary heart, however gratefulness for a 19-year-long joyride,” Edwards mentioned in a launch. “I owe my profession, my very own pursuit of happiness, to the love and help of my household. I thank each member of the Bruins and NESN on your loyalty, serving to me to attain and stay out a lifetime objective, excessive above the ice.”
Edwards labored for tv stations in Rhode Island and Boston earlier than becoming a member of ESPN in 1991.
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