Oh, the humanity! Boston Bruins play-by-play announcer Jack Edwards in contrast the NHL staff’s first-round playoff exit on Sunday to the Hindenburg tragedy. (Watch the video under.)
The Bruins had the very best file by far within the common season, so Edwards’ disappointment was comprehensible. Even when his sense of perspective was not.
“And this joyride ends in a Hindenburg-like ending!” he mentioned after the Bruins misplaced to the Florida Panthers in Sport 7.
The Hindenburg zeppelin burst into flames whereas touchdown in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on Could 6, 1937, killing dozens aboard and a floor crew member.
“Oh, the humanity!” radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison famously mentioned on the time of the tragedy.
Evaluating an early defeat within the Stanley Cup playoffs to this in all probability wasn’t the very best name.
Edwards describes himself as “passionate” and a “little loopy” on his Twitter bio. Possibly subsequent time he ought to simply preserve well-known disasters out of the dialog.
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