{"id":242461,"date":"2025-10-26T17:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242461\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:29:04","slug":"former-bruins-announcer-jack-edwards-honored-as-fan-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242461\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bruins announcer Jack Edwards honored as \u2018Fan of the Game\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards spent 19 seasons as the voice of the Bruins on New England Sports Network and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/boston-bruins-play-by-play-announcer-jack-edwards-to-retire-after-this-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced his retirement<\/a> in April 2024. A New England native, Edwards is a life-long Bruins fan and called his job as the team&#8217;s play-by-play announcer his \u201cdream job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known for his high energy and phrases such as \u201ctumbling muffin\u201d and \u201chigh above the ice,\u201d Edwards has been a broadcaster for a total of 45 years before his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI retire from broadcasting not with a heavy heart, but gratefulness for a 19-year-long joyride,\u201d Edwards said in a statement announcing his retirement. \u201cI owe my career, my own pursuit of happiness, to the love and support of my family. I thank every member of the Bruins and NESN for your loyalty, helping me to achieve and live out a lifetime goal, high above the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he was, of course, welcomed back to TD Garden with open arms, and there\u2019s little doubt that will be the case for a long, long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwards spent 19 seasons as the voice of the Bruins on New England Sports Network and announced his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-242461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}