Bruins Centennial Who is the best TV play-by-play announcer in Bruins history?

[Fenway]

The Bruins started televising games regularly in 1966-1967 and only 5 have done play-by-play.

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[McGarnagle]

Anyone who votes for Dave Shea should be banned from this board

 

[quietbruinfan]

Anyone who votes for Dave Shea should be banned from this board

Magnus Ragnarsson will vote for him as will Johan Hecht.

 

[whitetape]

Edwards was definitely the best, but his best years are behind him.

 

[Fenway]

Edwards was definitely the best, but his best years are behind him.

I know this is a generational thing and I love Jack.

For us boomers this night in 1988 was as good as winning the Cup and you can hear it in Fred's call.

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

Dave Shea lol. 'Hisss shot'

Anyone who votes for Dave Shea should be banned from this board

Yes thank you had to make my Dave Shea post before reading all the rest.

 

[Si Hopkins]

It's definitely Cusick but prime Edwards is right behind him.

 

[Gordoff]

Not TV but Bob Wilson was the best.

 

[LSCII]

Anyone who votes for Dave Shea should be banned from this board

First thing I said when I saw his name is "what the f*** is he doing there?".

Absolute worst by a long shot. It was funny listening to Turk literally disagree with everything he said though.

Not TV but Bob Wilson was the best.

Kick save and a beauty...

 

[CDJ]

I’ve only experienced Shea, Dale, and Jack. And that’s the order from worst to best.

 

[BlackFrancis]

I know this is a generational thing and I love Jack.

For us boomers this night in 1988 was as good as winning the Cup and you can hear it in Fred's call.

Turk: "Roy needs to stay on his feet."

Also:

 

[shoulders7]

I’m 47 years old, so I just missed Bobby Orr, but my oldest memories of the bruins are paired with Fred Cusick’s voice. I loved listening to him, and he was excellent. He gets my vote The uniforms of the 80’s will always be my favorites as well.

Jack was very good 10 years ago, but has slipped which isn’t surprising. I like Dale and he seems like a fantastic person, but was much better in studio to me. Dave Shea isn’t worth discussing, seems to be universally agreed upon here that he was terrible.

 

[IveGotToBeMe]

Fred!!! AINEC

 

[BMC]

Fred Cusick ftw. Jack is a close #2 though.

Don Earle was before my time. Dale Arnold was competent but too bland. Dave Shea was a trainwreck.

 

[JoeIsAStud]

Anyone who votes for Dave Shea should be banned from this board

I kind of think the same thing of his partner for most of the time Dale Arnold. As someone said just above, Dale was just bland. Not incompetent but never in my opinion added anything to the game

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

I’m 47 years old, so I just missed Bobby Orr, but my oldest memories of the bruins are paired with Fred Cusick’s voice. I loved listening to him, and he was excellent. He gets my vote The uniforms of the 80’s will always be my favorites as well.

Jack was very good 10 years ago, but has slipped which isn’t surprising. I like Dale and he seems like a fantastic person, but was much better in studio to me. Dave Shea isn’t worth discussing, seems to be universally agreed upon here that he was terrible.

Sad thing about Cusick was he stayed too long. In his last season he called Bourque Orr on several occasions.

 

[Number8]

It's definitely Cusick but prime Edwards is right behind him.

This sums it up for me. I might get roasted for this, but the thing about Cusick that bothered me was being teamed up with Johnny Pearson. Johnny knew the game so well, but to me he was always a bit of a downer.

 

[quietbruinfan]

Sad thing about Cusick was he stayed too long. In his last season he called Bourque Orr on several occasions.

Ehh he did that occasionally from Ray's first year, but yes it got worse as Time advanced.

 

[shoulders7]

Sad thing about Cusick was he stayed too long. In his last season he called Bourque Orr on several occasions.

True. Kind of like we are seeing with Jack now and his mistakes. I joined the navy in November 1995 so I missed the very end of Fred.

 

[Ludwig Fell Down]

I know this is a generational thing and I love Jack.

For us boomers this night in 1988 was as good as winning the Cup and you can hear it in Fred's call.

This, ^^^^. "Carbonneau says I concede" is one of my favorite calls ever.

 

[rocketdan9]

Cusick was superb

Good play by play voice

 

[McGarnagle]

Dale wasn't bad as a PBP guy, he was still much better than the generic RSN announcers that half the league prop out there. He just had to follow a legend in Cusick and preceded a one in a million character in Jack, so by comparison his tenure was forgettable and appears bland.

Shea was just the worst though.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

I’m tempted to vote Shea just to be “that guy”

 

[LSCII]

This sums it up for me. I might get roasted for this, but the thing about Cusick that bothered me was being teamed up with Johnny Pearson. Johnny knew the game so well, but to me he was always a bit of a downer.

Pearson was amazing at calling what he saw in real time and being 100% accurate though. Fred would say something like that may have been tipped, and Johnny would say that was tipped first off the skate of O'Reilly, it then hit Parks shin pad, bounced up high, hit off Cashman's right arm and bounced down, and finally clipped the d-man's stick on the way through before beating the goalie. And then they'd show the slow motion replay and it was spot on. Every time. lol

 

[sarge88]

Anyone who votes for Dave Shea should be banned from this board

I was just coming here to post this.