Jack's struggles were apparent during Game 1 Saturday night
Jack was a homer and freely admitted it. He was influenced by perhaps the biggest homer of all time the Celtics Johnny Most
Boston has been blessed with some of the greatest hockey voices in NHL history. Nobody can question the greatness of Fred Cusick and Bob Wilson and they were homers. Wilson could also be sarcastic.
When Bob passed - Kevin Paul Dupont wrote in the Globe
In this context, I often think of a night in the old Montreal Forum years ago, when my assigned seat in the press box was elbow to elbow with Wilson’s broadcast position. Everyone sat in Kraft-like highchairs up there, along a kitchen countertop-like ledge. On this particular night, the Bruins were on the verge, yet again, of getting drummed out of the playoffs by the Habs.
Wilson’s pregame setup for the radio audience that night was pay-per-listen gold. He was disgusted. In full throat, he noted the Black and Gold’s painful inability to score, while the Habs, yet again, pumped in goals at will. Nothing, Wilson made clear, could stop Les Glorieux now. He rolled through the names of the Habs’ scorers, particularly emphasizing the names of the French-Canadian players, summoning the ghosts of the Flying Frenchmen. His voice was one of painful resignation.
“And who do the Bruins counter with, but . . . ” Wilson bellowed into the mike as he read the night’s roster changes, “Lyndon Byers! . . . who couldn’t put the puck in the ocean if he was standing at the end of the DOCK!’’
Very few clips of Wilson survived as WBZ radio erased all the tapes
But he was good
It appears Alex Faust will replace Edwards on NESN.
