Rick Jeanneret when the Sabres played the Ottawa Senators in Ottawa on January 25, 2011. During Jeanneret's vacation, his son Mark and Kevin Sylvester filled in on play-by-play from December 27, 2010 through January 8, 2011. The idea for Jeanneret to take time off during west coast road games during these seasons was that of former managing partner Larry Quinn. On May 26, 2011, the Sabres announced that Jeanneret (and Neale) would only cover home games and 10 to 15 road games for the Sabres in the 2011-12 NHL season. This was in preparation for Jeanneret's pending retirement, in which Jeanneret stated
Gris Davies-Scourfield Gris Davies-Scourfield Brigadier Edward Grismond Beaumont 'Gris' Davies-Scourfield was a British Army officer who became a Prisoner of War and escaped from Stalag XXI-D and Colditz Castle during the Second World War. Gris Davies-Scourfield was born in Patching, Sussex on 8 August 1918, He was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst where he was awarded the King's Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles 25 August 1938. He served in England until the outbreak of World War II where he was sent to France as a platoon commander participating in the defence