Play-by-play great Jim Hughson misses the rinks — but not the airports

Jim Hughson misses calling hockey games from time to time. He doesn’t miss hockey travel one bit. Article content

“When the Four Nations final was on, I remembering thinking that it would be really fun to call,” said Hughson, 69, the former play-by-play man for the Vancouver Canucks , Toronto Maple Leafs and Hockey Night in Canada who ended his 42-year broadcast career just before the 2021-22 NHL season. Article content Article content

“Then I thought about how I would have been up yesterday at 4 a.m., on a flight at 6 a.m. and then changing planes in Toronto on my way to Boston, and that’s a ‘no thanks.’ That was the killer for me at the end. I chose to live in Vancouver. That meant travel was really onerous, and especially in the playoffs, because I’d go for sometimes 45 days