Even in retirement, Dale Arnold remains a team player. It is, after all, what hockey people do.
After 28 years at NESN — the first 12 as the Bruins’ play-by-play voice, the next 16 as a studio host — Arnold retired in April 2023. He and his wife Susan moved to his native Maine, where he stayed busy writing hockey books (his upcoming fourth, on coaches, is currently in the hands of his publisher), playing plenty of golf, and enjoying the way life should be.
“A pretty normal life,’’ he said.
When Brian Zechello, the coordinating producer for NESN’s Bruins broadcasts, called him approximately two weeks ago, Arnold figured it had something to do with last Sunday’s Centennial Game celebration of the 100th anniversary of the franchise’s first game.