{"id":471795,"date":"2026-02-25T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471795\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:31:18","slug":"longtime-nhl-radio-host-was-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471795\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime NHL Radio Host Was 55"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJim \u201cBoomer\u201d Gordon, longtime host of The Point with Boomer Gordon on SiriusXM<\/a> NHL<\/a> Network Radio, died Monday after a 3\u00bd-year battle with cancer. He was 55.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis death was announced Monday on the satellite radio channel at the time when his show always started. Many of his longtime colleagues and friends joined in a tribute to the unique host, who could be laconic or acerbic, self-deprecating or in attack mode, talk hockey or golf or football or just about any sport. During the tribute, many of Gordon\u2019s colleagues noted how \u201che would have hated this,\u201d preferring that they just talk hockey on the Toronto-based channel.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our friend and SiriusXM NHL Network Radio host Jim Boomer Gordon,\u201d SiriusXM NHL Network Radio wrote on social media. \u201cAfter a courageous battle with cancer, Boomer passed away this week, surrounded by his loved ones. He will be greatly missed by us all, on and off the air.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in 1950 in Hamilton, Ontario, Gordon got his nickname from a colleague based on his resemblance to ex-Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave \u201cBoomer\u201d Wells. He started on the XM channel then known as Home Ice as a producer on Phil Esposito\u2019s show, before the Hall of Famer became the radio color commentator for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Gordon was on the air from the earliest days of channel in late 2005, and did his last episode of The Point with Boomer Gordon on January 13. Before that, he had struggled to host the live show from 1-3 p.m. ET every day but the Fridays when he was undergoing chemotherapy. Hahn hosted the show in Gordon\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

\n\tGordon was a huge music fan and began The Point every day with Moby\u2019s \u201cExtreme Ways,\u201d the theme song of the Jason Bourne movies. The show\u2019s second hour always began with The Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cCan\u2019t You Hear Me Knocking?\u201d and bumper music often was from Gordon\u2019s beloved Canadian bands The Tragically Hip, Our Lady Peace, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who.<\/p>\n

\n\tGordon was beloved among his colleagues and fans for his gritty yet laid-back, so-very-Canadian delivery and always having an informed and generally unbiased opinion. One of his bits was \u201cdropping a bomb\u201d \u2014 complete with explosion sound effect \u2014 on NHL players he felt were underperforming. As his colleagues noted in the tribute show, many of the players he would call out stepped up their game soon afterward.<\/p>\n

\n\tA skilled interviewer who often asked questions his heard-it-all guests hadn\u2019t heard, Gordon was NHL Network Radio\u2019s go-to guy during the summer, when hockey was off-season and most of its other hosts were on vacation. He filled hours of airtime with annual features about every NHL team including \u201cTeam Previews,\u201d \u201cGM Scorecards\u201d and the popular \u201cHey Bud, What\u2019s Your Problem,\u201d when Gordon would list what each team needed to improve, punctuated by a reading of the titular line from Sean Penn\u2019s Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the NHL season, Gordon and longtime co-host and former intern Jake Hahn would break down the previous night\u2019s games, preview that night\u2019s matchups and deliver humorous but informed takes on the news of the day. In his tell-it-like-it-is style, he often delivered \u201cMy Non-Hockey Thought That Is a Hockey Thought,\u201d opining on his gripes and\/or observances.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: With NHL Players No Longer Iced Out, Olympics Men\u2019s Hockey Tournament Will Be A Power Play In Milan-Cortina<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s hoping he was able to watch the Olympic gold medal games, though he would have been crushed by Team USA\u2019s wins over Canada in both the men\u2019s<\/a> and women\u2019s<\/a> tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim \u201cBoomer\u201d Gordon, longtime host of The Point with Boomer Gordon on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio, died Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,57057,4,57058,37283],"class_list":{"0":"post-471795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jim-boomer-gordon","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-radio","12":"tag-siriusxm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116133408500319095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}