Fred Cusick
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Fred Cusick (b. November 7, 1918) is a former ice hockey brodcaster and served as the Boston Bruins play-by-play TV brodcaster from 1971 till 1997 on NESN and WSBK TV 38.
After Cusick's naval service in World War II, rising to lieutenant in command of a subchaser [1] he became the radio play-by-play broadcaster from 1952 to 1970, during which time he was also Sports Director for WEEI radio in Boston.
Cusick was the announcer for the first US network NHL broadcast back in 1956, as well as the first US network Stanley Cup broadcast a year later; he would spend four years in all working the NHL Game of the Week for CBS. [2] He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the first wave of media honourees in 1984, and in that year was also named the first winner of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award (along with Danny Gallivan, Rene Lecavalier and Hewitt himself), "in recognition of members of the radio and television industry who made outstanding contributions to their profession and the game during their career in hockey broadcasting." He has also won the Lester Patrick Trophy in 1988 for outstanding service to hockey in the United States.
In addition to his duties with the Bruins, he was the original Boston Patriots radio announcer alongside Bob Starr and Gil Santos.
He is best known for yelling "SCORE!" when a player scored a goal.
After retiring from the Bruins' broadcasts in 1997, he began broadcasting home games for the AHL Lowell Lock Monsters with former Bruin Brad Park as his partner. He retired for good as a sportscaster after the 2002 season at the age of 83.
His autobiography, Fred Cusick: Voice of the Bruins (ISBN 1582619816), was published in October 2006.
