During the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, short profiles of each of this year's Hall of Fame inductees will appear on IIHF.com in the build-up to the IIHF Hall of Fame weekend (May 24-25). There will be two ceremonies. The Contributors' Awards ceremony takes place on May 24, followed by the IIHF Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on May 25. Both ceremonies will be shown live on the IIHF's YouTube channel and IIHF.TV.
When he retired in early 2025, Paul Graham held the title of Vice-President and Executive Producer of live events for TSN, capping a 45-year career in broadcasting that most memorably took the World Junior Championship out of its nascent stage and into an event that has become part of so many households across Canada and around the world over Christmas and New Year’s. Back in 1992, TSN’s initial coverage of the World Juniors extended only to Canada’s games. Under Graham’s enthusiastic push to expand, TSN soon included teams from Canada’s group, then games in the secondary venue, and, finally, every game of the tournament. And the coverage was no longer limited to Canada.
Many countries around the IIHF world now have full coverage thanks to Graham’s ambitions. Graham’s award-winning career in television began in his hometown of Edmonton, working Oilers telecasts for CITV. He moved to Toronto in 1987 to produce for the Canadian Football Network, and four years later he was hired by TSN to produce CFL, NHL, and CHL games, the latter including some ten Memorial Cup events. He also produced the IIHF’s first ever Women’s World Championship in Ottawa in 1990. Later, “PG” worked in the same capacity for the women’s games at the 1998 Olympics, and for many years he was the senior producer on Hockey Night in Canada, including four Stanley Cup finals.
In the early 2000s, Graham extended his interest in international hockey by bringing Spengler Cup and Champions Hockey League games to North America. In 2003, he joined Raptors NBA TV as senior producer but left in 2010 to work as the coordinating producer in Whistler during the 2010 Olympics. After, he returned to TSN to oversee a variety of productions that added to its IIHF portfolio extensively. In addition to the World Juniors, TSN broadcast the Men’s World Championship, Women’s Worlds, and Men’s and Women’s U18.
At the 2025 World Juniors, his last event, Graham used drones for the first time, aiming for greater standards of excellence right to the end. “That’s been a goal of mine since Day One,” Graham said. “The Juniors is a big event. You want to make it look big all the time. One of the things I’m proudest of is that it’s not just big in Canada. It’s not just Canada’s Christmas tradition anymore. It’s several countries. When I worked my first one in Fussen, Germany, in 1992, we covered only five tournament games, and they only aired in Canada. Now countries like Sweden and Finland carry every game of the tournament and all the participating countries have a TV package where all games are available.”
When he retired in early 2025, Paul Graham held the title of Vice-President and Executive Producer of live events for TSN, capping a 45-year career in broadcasting that most memorably took the World Junior Championship out of its nascent stage and into an event that has become part of so many households across Canada and around the world over Christmas and New Year’s. Back in 1992, TSN’s initial coverage of the World Juniors extended only to Canada’s games. Under Graham’s enthusiastic push to expand, TSN soon included teams from Canada’s group, then games in the secondary venue, and, finally, every game of the tournament. And the coverage was no longer limited to Canada.
Many countries around the IIHF world now have full coverage thanks to Graham’s ambitions. Graham’s award-winning career in television began in his hometown of Edmonton, working Oilers telecasts for CITV. He moved to Toronto in 1987 to produce for the Canadian Football Network, and four years later he was hired by TSN to produce CFL, NHL, and CHL games, the latter including some ten Memorial Cup events. He also produced the IIHF’s first ever Women’s World Championship in Ottawa in 1990. Later, “PG” worked in the same capacity for the women’s games at the 1998 Olympics, and for many years he was the senior producer on Hockey Night in Canada, including four Stanley Cup finals.
In the early 2000s, Graham extended his interest in international hockey by bringing Spengler Cup and Champions Hockey League games to North America. In 2003, he joined Raptors NBA TV as senior producer but left in 2010 to work as the coordinating producer in Whistler during the 2010 Olympics. After, he returned to TSN to oversee a variety of productions that added to its IIHF portfolio extensively. In addition to the World Juniors, TSN broadcast the Men’s World Championship, Women’s Worlds, and Men’s and Women’s U18.
At the 2025 World Juniors, his last event, Graham used drones for the first time, aiming for greater standards of excellence right to the end. “That’s been a goal of mine since Day One,” Graham said. “The Juniors is a big event. You want to make it look big all the time. One of the things I’m proudest of is that it’s not just big in Canada. It’s not just Canada’s Christmas tradition anymore. It’s several countries. When I worked my first one in Fussen, Germany, in 1992, we covered only five tournament games, and they only aired in Canada. Now countries like Sweden and Finland carry every game of the tournament and all the participating countries have a TV package where all games are available.”