Guest Poster Masterpiece Theater: Cornelius Hardenbergh Agrees That “The Instigators” is Awesome
December 11, 2008 Leave a comment
Today, while your faithful editor continues his mysterious break, we have multiple guest posters who are better than we are. Here, we have Cornelius Hardenbergh, from his Hockey Blog Adventure.
Ok, here goes:
First of all, hello to everyone on Puck the Media. You may know me for commenting on every other story and basically being a big Bruins homer. I (of course) do not apologize for that. After all, I’m a boston fan and that’s how we’re supposed to be, right?
Enough about me, though. The real purpose of my guest-writing here is to discuss the best play-by-play announcer to ever grace the airwaves: Jack Edwards. Ok, maybe not the best. But in terms of loud yelling, acting-like-an-excited-12-year-old, Jack is the best in the business. Eat your heart out, Jeanneret. Jack has come a long way from humble beginnings with UNH hockey, then the 1988 olympics, and so on through the nineties. The beginning of the millenium saw Mr. Edwards covering C-level sports on ESPN (that is, anything below hockey and 2 levels below poker) back in 2003. He got brought on board with NESN in 2005, and we haven’t looked back. Yeah, the Thornton trade helped matters, but I think Edwards’ broadcasting prowess is really what has brought Boston back to hockey fandom.
Oh, and the winning. Boston fans like the winning.
Anyhow, the Bruins have been doing so well that NESN decided to create a new talking-heads hockey review show: The Instigators. You can find the web page of the show here: http://www.nesn.com/content/shows/theinstigators/default.aspx
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