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FILE - Rick Jeanneret helps salute the crowd before an NHL hockey game between the Buffalo Sabres and the Winnipeg Jets in Buffalo, N.Y., Nov. 8, 2011. Jeanneret, who will always be regarded as the voice of the Sabres after a 51-year broadcasting career and as the Hockey Hall of Fame’s 2012 Foster Hewitt Award recipient, died Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. He was was 81. The Sabres released a statement from Jeanneret’s family saying he died with his family by his side following a two-year battle with multi-organ failure. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

Rick Jeanneret, the Hall of Fame broadcaster and voice of the Buffalo Sabres, dies at the age of 81

By John Wawrow - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, file photo, Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame Class of 2012 inductee Rick Jeanneret helps salute the crowd with fellow inductee Dale Hawerchuk before an NHL hockey game between the Sabres and the Winnipeg Jets in Buffalo, N.Y. Sabres broadcaster Jeanneret was taken out of the press box on a stretcher early in the third period of an NHL hockey game between the Sabres and Anaheim Ducks, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. It was unclear what happened to the 76-year-old Jeanneret. He has been the team's play-by-play man since 1971 — the longest tenure with a single team in NHL history. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

Sabres broadcaster ‘doing well’ after being hospitalized

By JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press