Jack Edwards Strikes Again By Challenging His Inner Paul Steigerwald

Anyone who has been following me on Twitter (and if you are not, then you have no life and I pity you; especially seeing it is as easy as going to twitter.com/FireAndyReidNow and clicking follow) since the end of this hockey season at the latest knows of my undying love for Jack Edwards. His passion for the game of hockey goes virtually unmatched and his idiomatic expressions and comparisons never cease to amaze me. That being said, I think good old Jack may have crossed the line a bit with his call at the end of last night's Buffalo-Boston Game 6, which saw the Bruins clinch the series four games to two.



"And the Sabres hopes sleep with the Edmund Fitzgerald in the bottom of Gitchee-Gumee! After one round in the playoffs, Snowball 1, Hell 0! The Bruins advance to the conference semis for the 2nd time in consecutive years."

Wow.....not only is that another joke about people dying, but it is also historically inaccurate. But it must be said that nobody here went down as hard as Hobey Baker. He went down in a plane crash!

You know, I do wonder if he plans these calls ahead of time or if they just come to him naturally. I mean, how else can you come up with the Edmund Fitzgerald in the Gitchee-Gumee and the whole Patriots Day ragtag Bostonian farmers spiel he came up with last year?

A History Lesson From Jack Edwards

We all know how big of a homer Jack Edwards is for NESN. That really is not breaking any ground and I'm sure everyone who reads this blog knows it. But last night, Jack Edwards once again went completely crazy after the Bruins got their empty net goal against the Canadiens. And I'm not talking about just screaming, "YES!", Edwards went on a full-fledged tangent about how the Montreal Canadiens were the "Red Coats" of the NHL and the Bruins were the "rag tag farmers" of the 13 colonies rebelling against said Red Coats. Yes, Jack Edwards somehow managed a Revolutionary War reference while calling an empty net goal. Here's the video for proof.



All we needed to add to that was a reference to King Penguin, and this clip would have been good as gold!

/Blackadder'd and JamesCraven'd.

Jack Edwards would like to tell you how the Canadiens are the "Red Coats" (Awful Announcing)