Ron MacLean never thought he’d be back as host of “Hockey Night in Canada.”
“Of course not,” he told The Canadian Press this week. “If anything, I had almost put in my head the idea that it’s going to be time to look for something outside of the hockey arena.”
Thirty years after he first won the job replacing Dave Hodge, MacLean returns Saturday on CBC as host of a new season of “Hockey Night in Canada.”
For the past two seasons, the 56-year-old was bumped off the main desk in favour of a younger man: former CBC personality George Stroumboulopoulos.