Hockey Hall Fame honours Canadiens announcer Pierre Houde of RDS

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Posted By: jasabacklink May 31, 2024

The Hockey Hall of Fame announced Friday that Pierre Houde of RDS is this year’s winner of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for outstanding contributions as a hockey broadcaster.

Houde, who was born in St-Laurent, has been the play-by-play announcer for Canadiens games on RDS television since 1989.

“For over three decades, Pierre has brought francophone hockey fans all over Canada exciting and entertaining play-by-play of our great game with class and distinction,” Chuck Kaiton, president of the NHL Broadcasters’ Association, said in a news release from the Hall of Fame. “He is extremely worthy of being the 2024 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award recipient.”

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Houde started his broadcasting career as a weekend radio DJ at age 18. Apart from doing play-by-play on Canadiens games, he has also called games at the IIHF World Championship and IIHF Junior Championship, the Spengler Cup and about a dozen Stanley Cup finals. The three-time Gemini Award winner has also covered 13 Olympic Games and since 1993 has been the voice of Formula One races on RDS.

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Other Montreal broadcasters to receive the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in the past include Danny Gallivan (1984), René Lecavalier (1984), Doug Smith (1985), Dick Irvin (1988) and Gilles Tremblay (2002).

The Hall of Fame also announced Friday that Scott Burnside will receive the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for excellence in hockey journalism. Burnside covered the Detroit Red Wings as a sports columnist at the Windsor Star when they won the Stanley Cup in 1997 and has since worked for the National Post, The Athletic and for 13 years as the senior NHL writer for ESPN.com.

“For more than two decades, Scott Burnside has been an agenda-setter in the hockey world,” Frank Seravalli, president of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association, said in a news release. “His work is appointment reading. Burnside is a true big ‘J’ hockey journalist, someone who built relationships to take readers behind the scenes, someone who is unafraid to ruffle feathers by reporting on difficult topics or to offer a cutting opinion. Most importantly, he always remained true to himself, and gave back by mentoring countless young hockey writers along the way.”

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