Johnny Peirson
Encyclopedia
John Frederick Peirson is a retired National Hockey League
player who played right wing for the Boston Bruins
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Peirson finished his NHL career with 153 goals and 173 assists for 326 points in 545 games, and played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1950 and 1951. Following his retirement, Peirson became a prominent broadcast color analyst for the Bruins, first on WBZ
radio with Fred Cusick
-- with whom as a player he had done a TV demonstration during one of CBS-TV's short-lived weekly NHL telecasts -- then on WSBK
television, initially with Don Earle
and then for many years with Cusick, who had moved from radio to TV.
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
player who played right wing for the Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
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Peirson finished his NHL career with 153 goals and 173 assists for 326 points in 545 games, and played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1950 and 1951. Following his retirement, Peirson became a prominent broadcast color analyst for the Bruins, first on WBZ
WBZ (AM)
WBZ is the call sign for an AM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts owned by CBS Radio, itself owned by the CBS Corporation. Originally based in and broadcast from Springfield, Massachusetts, WBZ was the first commercial radio station in the United States...
radio with Fred Cusick
Fred Cusick
Frederick Michael Cusick was an American ice hockey broadcaster who served as the Boston Bruins play-by-play announcer from 1971 until 1997 on WSBK-TV in Boston, and from 1984 until 1995 on NESN...
-- with whom as a player he had done a TV demonstration during one of CBS-TV's short-lived weekly NHL telecasts -- then on WSBK
WSBK-TV
WSBK-TV is a MyNetworkTV television station for eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire that is licensed to Boston. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter along the Needham and Wellesley town line southwest of the MA 9 and I-95 / MA 128...
television, initially with Don Earle
Don Earle
Donald Earle Clement was an American ice hockey announcer.Earle, who got his start broadcasting high school hockey games on radio, called Boston Bruins games on WSBK-TV from 1967-1971....
and then for many years with Cusick, who had moved from radio to TV.
External links
- Peirson at Legends of Hockey.