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Jeanneret To Return For 2016-2017 Season As Sabres Change Retirement Plans - Alan Pergament - Buffalo News.
Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame play-by-play man Rick Jeanneret, who was scheduled to retire after this season, instead is going into oooooovvertimmme. The National Hockey League team announced today that the 73-year-old Jeanneret will continue to do play-by-play after this season and in the foreseeable future.
Jeanneret is scheduled to call 41 games this season in his final year of what was supposed to be his final contract. However, he has agreed to come back for the 2016-2017 season. It is unclear how many games he will work, but Jeanneret said this morning he anticipates it will be in the same range as this season if he feels as healthy as he feels today.
The Sabres announced the plans for Jeanneret’s future before the regular season, partly because it didn’t want teams around the league to honor him for retiring when there were no plans to do so. Jeanneret, who has called Sabres games for 43 years, will now work on a year-to-year basis in much the same way as Los Angeles Dodgers legend Vin Scully operates.
Jeanneret said the discussions about returning have been going on for a few months. “Most if it was predicated on how I felt,” said Jeanneret, a cancer survivor who worked all 47 games he was contacted to do last season after being treated for months for throat cancer. “I feel great. This never would have happened if I didn’t feel so good. When they offered me an opportunity to come back, I said, ‘well, sure. Why not? What else am I going to do?’”
http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/201...-17-season-as-sabres-change-retirement-plans/
Jeanneret To Return For 2016-2017 Season As Sabres Change Retirement Plans - Alan Pergament - Buffalo News.
Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame play-by-play man Rick Jeanneret, who was scheduled to retire after this season, instead is going into oooooovvertimmme. The National Hockey League team announced today that the 73-year-old Jeanneret will continue to do play-by-play after this season and in the foreseeable future.
Jeanneret is scheduled to call 41 games this season in his final year of what was supposed to be his final contract. However, he has agreed to come back for the 2016-2017 season. It is unclear how many games he will work, but Jeanneret said this morning he anticipates it will be in the same range as this season if he feels as healthy as he feels today.
The Sabres announced the plans for Jeanneret’s future before the regular season, partly because it didn’t want teams around the league to honor him for retiring when there were no plans to do so. Jeanneret, who has called Sabres games for 43 years, will now work on a year-to-year basis in much the same way as Los Angeles Dodgers legend Vin Scully operates.
Jeanneret said the discussions about returning have been going on for a few months. “Most if it was predicated on how I felt,” said Jeanneret, a cancer survivor who worked all 47 games he was contacted to do last season after being treated for months for throat cancer. “I feel great. This never would have happened if I didn’t feel so good. When they offered me an opportunity to come back, I said, ‘well, sure. Why not? What else am I going to do?’”
http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/201...-17-season-as-sabres-change-retirement-plans/
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