Press Release
Prince Albert, SK – It is with sadness the Prince Albert Raiders announce that Morley Richard Jaeger, long time broadcaster of the team, passed away this afternoon at age 72.
Morley Jaeger did the play by play broadcast of 16 seasons of Prince Albert Raider hockey totaling 1,272 games on 900 CKBI. He began during the first season of the Raiders in 1972 and continued through 1988. Jaeger broadcast all four Centennial Cup Championship games when the team was in Junior A and did the play by play of the Raiders Memorial Cup Championship in 1985 when they defeated the Shawinigan Cataracts 6-1.
In voting by fans, Jaeger was selected Top Broadcaster of the Raiders during the 30th Anniversary season of 2001-02.
On November 15, 2008 the Raiders honoured Jaeger during their annual Wall of Honour Night when the broadcast booth on the north side of the Art Hauser Centre was renamed the “Morley Jaeger Broadcast Booth”.
Details of a Celebration of the Life of Morley Jaeger are pending and will be announced early this week.
(Nathan also is a writer for Maineiacs Post to Post and the Maine Hockey Journal. He can be reached at fourniern@students.nescom.edu)
Monday, June 22, 2009
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