VIDEO: Bruins Announcer Jack Edwards Catching Heat for Trash Call of Terrifying Roman Polak Injury
By Chris Russo
To be fair, it's not exactly a clean hit, but Jack Edwards has done this type of thing too much anyway.
And here's Bruins announcer Jack Edwards casually calling Roman Polak's injury "bad hockey karma" just before he was taken off the ice on a stretcher pic.twitter.com/lOdlJZPSfw
— Mark Powell (@jim_joyce_hater) October 4, 2019
Thursday night's Bruins-Stars game saw Dallas defenseman Roman Polak stretchered off the ice after going headfirst into the boards trying to defend the corner. Fortunately, Stars coach Jim Montgomery says he will be okay and could return soon.
DAL coach Jim Montgomery tells media that Roman Polak -- who was taken off ice on a stretcher -- has full use of his extremities and is feeling better at the hospital.
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) October 4, 2019
Bruins announcer Jack Edwards and color man Andy Brickley fairly pointed out that Polak had a little bit of a cross-check in the back of Bruins forward Chris Wagner as they raced to the boards. Brickley then called it a "self-inflicted injury" before Edwards called it "bad hockey karma", which was surely out of line.
Polak was definitely cross-checking Wagner, but only to a point where he would have hurt his legs, not his head. It is also incredibly difficult when they're skating so quickly and have to stop on a dime. Lastly, no broadcaster should treat a serious injury like this, especially considering the delay from it took about 10 minutes.
This is far from the first time Edwards has had a call that has in which he lacks compassion.
You can't deny he's entertaining, but he'll still go down in infamy for his call against the Philadelphia Flyers.
He also once compared Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cooke to Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan for his career-ending hit to the head of Marc Savard.
Did not compare Cooke to a terrorist. Check your dictionary definitions before you run off the handle. Or just stop following.
— Jack Edwards (@RealJackEdwards) April 20, 2013
The average person can definitely admit Cooke is a dirty player, but it's still an absolute overstatement to compare him to an assassin. It's yet another example of Jack Edwards being Jack Edwards.