Rick Jeanneret Jeanneret described as a "crash course" in broadcasting. In 1963, Jeanneret took over the play-by-play of a Niagara Falls Flyers Junior A hockey game for the regular announcer, Edd Felstead, who had become sick. Jeanneret became the color analyst the following season before assuming full-time play by play radio duties in 1965. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Rick did several radio advertisements for local Niagara Falls hardware store Buildall. Jeanneret also called Buffalo Bisons (AHL) road games in 1969-70. From 1984 until 1992, he did the Sabres' play-by-play in addition to being a popular early-morning disc jockey at the
Edouard Hamman "Education of Charles V" for 4,000 francs. Among his other notable works from this period are six paintings of Italian history, commissioned by Victor Emmanuel II, and the series "Celebrated Composers", reproductions from which are still in use. In later years he turned more to genre painting and portraits, including one of King Norodom of Cambodia, which brought him great distinction in that country. His son, Édouard Michel Ferdinand Hamman (1854-1952) became a landscape painter of some note. 1885: Officer in the Order of Leopold. Edouard Hamman Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman (24 September 1819 in Ostend – 30 March 1888