SiriusXM NHL Network Radio announces Jim "Boomer" Gordon death, passed surrounded by family
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Daniel Lucente
Feb 25, 2026 (12:03)
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Jim "Boomer" Gordon, a SiriusXM NHL Network Radio staple, has died after a cancer battle, and the NHL talk world just lost a familiar heartbeat.
SiriusXM NHL Network Radio announced this week that Gordon passed away surrounded by loved ones, and that sentence hits like a clean slapshot you never saw coming.
He wasn't a play-by-play guy.
He was the voice that stitched the whole day together.
Boomer made opinions feel like conversation, not performance.
You could disagree and still want the next segment.
He'd lean into the messy stuff, too, the "what are we doing here?" hockey questions, and he never sounded scared to be wrong.
He also kept showing up while his health was going the other way.
A few years back, he publicly stepped away for health reasons, and fans understood what that really meant.
Jim "Boomer" Gordon mattered to SiriusXM NHL Network Radio
If you were a daily listener, you're probably feeling that weird mix of sadness and gratitude right now.
On a channel built for hockey lifers, Boomer sounded like one of us who just happened to have the mic.
His show "The Point" became a habit for a lot of people, the kind that rides with you in the car and follows you into the kitchen.
That's what hurts most.
Habits don't die quietly.
Hockey will keep moving, because it always does.
But there's going to be dead air where his laugh and edge used to live.
Rest easy, Boomer.
Thanks for the hours.
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