Jim Hughson
| Jim Hughson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 9, 1956 Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada |
| Sports commentary career | |
| Team(s) |
Vancouver Canucks (1979–1982, 1994–2008) Toronto Maple Leafs (1982–1987) Montreal Expos (1987–1989) Toronto Blue Jays (1990–1994, 2007–2008) |
| Genre(s) | Play-by-play (television and radio) |
| Sports | Ice hockey, baseball |
Jim Hughson (born October 9, 1956) is a Canadian sportscaster, best known for his play-by-play of National Hockey League and Toronto Blue Jays baseball games. Since 2008, he has been the lead play-by-play announcer for Hockey Night in Canada.
Hughson worked on Canucks radio broadcasts, working on the pre-game, intermission, and post-game shows in the early 1980s. He also filled in as play-by-play man when Jim Robson had national TV duties. In this role, he broadcast games three and four of the 1982 Stanley Cup Finals between the Canucks and New York Islanders. In 1982, he left to become the television voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs, before joining TSN in 1987.
Hughson worked for TSN from 1987 to 1994, working as the lead play-by-play voice for the network's NHL games, paired with Gary Green. In 1991, he called the World Junior Hockey Championship in Saskatchewan, which climaxed with a dramatic game in Saskatoon between Canada and the USSR, in which John Slaney scored the winning goal late in the third period to deliver the gold medal to Canada.
In addition to hockey, Hughson also called baseball for TSN. He worked on Montreal Expos broadcasts for the network from 1987 to 1989. Then in 1990, Hughson became the regular play-by-play announcer for Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts, alongside Buck Martinez. During that time, Hughson was most famous for calling all three of the games in which the Jays' clinched first place in the American League East during the 1990s (1991, 1992, and 1993).
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