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Rangers play-by-play announcer Sam Rosen to receive Foster Hewitt Memorial Award

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NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 22: Broadcaster Sam Rosen conducts the ceremony for former New York Ranger players Andy Bathpage and Harry Howell prior to the game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers on February 22, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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TORONTO (AP) Voice of the New York Rangers Sam Rosen will receive the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for hockey broadcasting and Chicago Blackhawks team historian Bob Verdi will get the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for excellence in hockey journalism.

They will be honored during the Hockey Hall of Fame’s induction weekend in November.

Rosen has been the television play-by-play broadcaster for the Rangers since 1984 and is best known for his call of New York’s Stanley Cup victory in 1994: “This one will last a lifetime.”

Verdi spent three decades at the Chicago Tribune writing about the Blackhawks before being hired by the team in 2010.

The Foster Hewitt is determined by the NHL Broadcasters’ Association and the Elmer Ferguson by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association.