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Rick Jeanneret to make play-by-play return during Saturday's Sabres-Leafs game
“I would like to stress I have every intention of coming back. I have probably three months ahead of me that aren’t going to be fun. I know they aren’t going to be.”
Those were the words of Buffalo Sabres play-by-play man Rick Jeanneret in July when it was announced he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. On Saturday night, the man who uttered the famous “MAY DAY!” call in 1993 will be back in the TV booth to call the first period of the Maple Leafs-Sabres game.
“I’m going to do a period Saturday and no more than that,” said the 72-year-old Jeanneret. “I don’t know how my voice will hang on. There is only one way to find out. There is no way to practice it.”
If all goes well, Jeanneret’s plan is to work another period at Tuesday’s home game with San Jose and work two periods of games on Friday, Nov. 21 against the New York Rangers at home and the Washington Capitals on the road on Nov. 22.
“If it is good after that, let it rip,” said Jeanneret.
The goal is to work Buffalo’s entire Nov. 26 game against the Winnipeg Jets and resume calling games for the rest of this season, plus the 41 he plans to do in 2015-16.
This is a great news to top off a fantastic week for Jeanneret. Last Friday he joined fellow cancer surivor and Buffalo sports legend Jim Kelly at center ice for a pre-game ceremonial puck drop during the team's Hockey Fights Cancer Night. He then dropped the news that he was cancer-free.
Welcome back, Rick.
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