SSHoF logoPeter Loubardias

Builder (2025)

Broadcaster/Media

Peter LoubardiasPeter Loubardias has scored a hat trick.

In his work as a hockey broadcaster, he wanted to call the Memorial Cup, world juniors and the Olympics.

He did play-by-play at the Memorial Cup for eight consecutive years. He covered world juniors in Halifax, Finland and Grand Forks. He called hockey at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

For a guy who had been around the game since watching the Blades at the downtown Arena at age 3, how do you top that?

Peter Loubardias was 18 when he joined CJSL radio in Estevan. He was the voice of the Bruins in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, bringing colour to the black and white of a prairie winter. If the game was a snoozer, the stories he got from Estevan’s coach Gerry James would make even a pillow sit up and take notice. This was the same James who played running back for the Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup in November 1959 and in the Stanley Cup as a forward with the Maple Leafs five months later.

Peter moved to Regina and CK radio. He did play-of-play of Pats hockey. He was the host of a Riders post-game call-in show.

He returned to Saskatoon to be an anchor on Sportsline, a last-night sportscast on Global TV.

In Edmonton, he has called the Oilers, in Calgary, the Flames.

He covered the Masters in Augusta for TV and the Tournament of Hearts in Kelowna for radio. He called the junior hockey series between Canada and Russia. He voiced the live stream of the Canada Cup of women’s softball in Surrey.

For Peter Loubardias, sports is not just a job, it’s pleasure. During a break, he travelled from his work in Toronto to watch the Canada Summer Games in Regina. He bought tickets from a scalper in Calgary to catch the medal round of Olympic hockey at the Saddledome.

Peter was a coach for the Harmony Centre Canadian Senior Women’s Softball Championship team in 1980. They were inducted in the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 2025.