Longtime Rangers broadcaster Sam Rosen makes a sad announcement

Longtime New York Rangers broadcaster Sam Rosen has announced that the upcoming 2024-25 season will be his final season. He'll be retiring from broadcasting after an impressive 40 year career.

Rosen is one of the most revered broadcasters in hockey history, particularly in the USA. His name may not be up there with the likes of Danny Gallivan and Bob Cole, but he's damn near close.

Rangers fans will talk your ear off about how Rosen was the first Rangers broadcaster in 54 years to call a Stanley Cup victory, shouting out his iconic "THE WAITING IS OVER!" when the Rangers bested the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Final.

“For me it was more of a personal call. It would last my lifetime no matter what happened,” said the 77-year-old Rosen told the New York Post. “If they won three more, no more, five more … certainly the hope was that they would win a lot of Stanley Cups.

“I didn’t want to say it would last my lifetime but that was really the meaning, that it would last a lifetime for me, and it has.”

Rosen admits that he's been thinking about retirement for a couple years now when dozens of friends and family gathered to celebrate his 75th birthday. Surrounded by all his loved ones Rosen says he began thinking , ‘OK, how do you want to wind this up?’”

“So it’s time to spend a little more time with my wife, with my family and to go out on top,” Rosen said. “Fans have been great and they’ve been so complimentary and they’ve inspired me. I realize that I’ve touched a lot of people and it’s now time to say thank you very much and put a big, big bow on it because I think everyone is in agreement at the Garden and at the network that this will be a big finish and I’m hoping the Rangers will have a big year to cap it all off.”

Early congratulations to Rosen on a stellar career, let's make this a magical season!