Larry Brooks, Hockey’s Unforgettable Voice, Leaves Behind a Legacy Shrouded in Mystery at 75
“What never changed, from day one, was the personal part of our relationship,” said Lamoriello, who ran the Devils from 1987-2015 and the Islanders from 2018 through last April and who sat at the Brooks family table in Toronto the night Brooks was honored by the Hall of Fame. “One thing you always knew about Larry was that he’d tell it like it is.”
His colleagues knew another side of Brooks, too: one who grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side as a ferocious Rangers and Yankees fan, who devoured the New York tabloids the way most kids his age crushed cheeseburgers and milkshakes. He held in high esteem the writers who’d come before him, and was determined to make certain the ones who came after would carry the baton with similar devotion.
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