Hughson, who was inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame last week, says he was on the road for 45 straight days during the NHL playoffs

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

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