Cusick as a Dog

Fred Cusick, who did more in hockey than any other Northeastern hockey alum, has died at the age of 90, on the eve of his induction into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Broadcasters inducted prior to Cusick include Tom Bergeron, best known for evoking the emotion and import of getting punched in the groin, Bozo the Clown and hairdo Joyce Kulhawik. Good call guys. Between radio, television and cable, Cusick called Boston Bruins hockey for 45 years. He also called the first network NHL broadcast, for CBS in January 1957 and the first game in the history of the second incarnation of the American Football League, between the Denver Broncos and the Boston Patriots from Boston University’s Nickerson Field. The first American named to the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Broadcaster Wing in 1984, he came out of a brief retirement to spend 5 seasons as the home voice of the American Hockey League’s Lowell Lock Monsters.