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He's not taking this well may be time to go check out the recent graduates at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting,
 
He makes these boring ass games actually exciting. Definitely a homer, but I think he's great.
 
Yes he's a homer, and so is every other play-by-play announcer out there. I don't get why he get's singled out, there are way worse than him out there.
 
JOKER 192 said:
Yes he's a homer, and so is every other play-by-play announcer out there. I don't get why he get's singled out, there are way worse than him out there.
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Jack will tell you that he is not broadcasting a NHL game, he is televising a Bruins game. That said he always gives credit when the other team does something well.
 
Jack is wasted on NESN. He belongs in Canada as a legend of the game like Foster Hewett and Don Cherry. Jack can replace that dinosaur Bob Cole.
 
If you were watching the Bruins on NESN this weekend, and your biggest problem with what you were seeing on screen was Jack...might I suggest paying attention to the game?

Yeah, he's a homah. But he's OUR homer. If you want to nix him, you've got to put someone else there, or move the Bruins games to, say, CSNNE. What happens then? I will definitely stop watching the games if I ever hear the phrase, "Let's go down to our on-ice reporter, Joe Haggerty".

The biggest thing that I'd rip on Jack for this season so far was that whole "quantum physics" incident a few months back when the puck went into the protective netting above the Bruins' offensive zone, didn't get whistled down, two minutes of play ensued, and the opposing team scored. Jack practically SCREAMED that it wouldn't count. He got the rules wrong, plain and simple - and when you profess to know more than the refs, you're sticking your neck out on the line, and you really HAVE to be right.

That said, Jack takes his job seriously. I love the tweet that one of his interns probably makes before the games with the lines and pairings. As far as I can tell, he gets the players' names right - I cringed last week when Krug was called Bartkowski (or vice versa? Or someone else? I know Krug was in there) on NBC. To know the names, sweater numbers, and pronunciations of 40 players - 20 of which get changed out EVERY game, and 1/3 of whom are born outside of North America - that takes effort. His job is play-by-play, and he seems pretty darn accurate to me.

Is he a little too rah-rah at times? Yeah. The dagger-in-the-hearts clip makes me roll my eyes. But I'll take him over Doc - or whatever clown they put in for him on NBC - any day.

Oh, and if you're nice, he just might DM you on twitter.
 
Is he a homer? Yes, but what team-employed PXP person isn't? He has a tremendous passion for this team and for the craft, and it shows.

A couple of things I notice about Jack - and I study broadcasting closely as a PXP person myself - is that he is intensely prepared, and he also doesn't take himself, or the broadcast, too seriously. He has a good time and the enjoyment of his craft really shows.

I, honestly, learn something about hockey every time I watch Jack & Brick. I don't say that often about a broadcast. I also am usually entertained, even when the game is terrible (which, unfortunately, has been the case far too often this year). When I was doing some radio color commentary last year, a lot of what I knew to look for (positioning, "triangles", et al) came from watching Andy Brickley break down highlights, but Jack Edwards has to know enough about the game to help set him up, too.
 
And, to add, we're also blessed to have a really good, professional broadcast team on radio with Goucher & Beers. They're also outstanding with a different style.

One thing that really impressed me about Jack - a year or so ago, the B's were in Toronto and the NESN feed went out (I was watching on GameCenter and still had the video). As soon as he was informed of it, he dropped into a very detailed radio-style play-by-play knowing there were no pictures, and stayed with it (and stayed on top of the play) until the video issues were fixed.
 
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