Sabres announce Rick Jeanneret's final regular-season games

UPDATE (1/20/22): This story has been modified to reflect changes to the NHL regular-season schedule and other factors.
Rick Jeanneret will call 21 regular-season games to close out an illustrious Hall-of-Fame career, starting with the Buffalo Sabres' home opener Thursday night.
RJ's final play-by-play calls will air as part of a 72-game TV schedule on MSG. As previously announced, eight Sabres games will air exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu (a subscription is required for those streaming services) and two other games will be available only on TNT.
His "Last Call" of the regular season will be Buffalo's final game of 2021-22, a home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on April 29.

Jeanneret, the NHL's longest-tenured announcer, sat behind the Sabres microphone for the first time on the radio on October 10, 1971. He joined the team's TV broadcasts in 1995.
He is a member of the Sabres Hall of Fame, the Hockey Hall of Fame (as the recipient of the Foster Hewitt Award in 2012), the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame, and the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Additional "Last Call" content presented by Wegmans will be produced throughout the year on all Sabres platforms.
Tickets for all home games are on sale now.

On January 7, the Sabres announced that the organization will host "RJ Night" presented by Wegmans on April 1 during the team's home game against the Nashville Predators.
Jeanneret will be honored when a banner bearing his name will join the banners of other Sabres legends in the rafters of KeyBank Center before the game.
Tributes throughout the night will put a spotlight on RJ's Hall-of-Fame career as he prepares for his final games before he retires at the conclusion of his 51st year behind the mic.
Jeanneret's banner will join those honoring alumni Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin, Rene Robert, Tim Horton, Danny Gare, Pat LaFontaine and Dominik Hasek, and original owners Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup R. Knox.
The first 10,000 fans in attendance will receive a replica banner upon entry.
Dan Dunleavy will call the remaining 61 games on the schedule and will be featured during each game's TV broadcast. RJ and Dan will be joined on the air by Rob Ray, who will return for his 10th season as the full-time color analyst.
Brian Duff, who joined the Sabres broadcast team in 2011-12, will again serve as the full-time in-game host for all Sabres broadcasts on MSG. Veteran broadcaster Martin Biron will once again be a mainstay across all Sabres platforms in 2021-22, providing in-depth analysis before, during and after games.
All Sabres telecasts on MSG Networks are produced and broadcast by the team's in-house broadcasting team and feature the Sabres broadcasters and analysts exclusively. All 82 games will also air on WGR 550.