Josh Bogorad’s hockey play-by-play career really took off with an unsolicited drive to Phoenix for a meeting he hoped he would get.



Recently graduated from the University of Arizona, Bogorad had been reaching out to the general manager of the Central Hockey League’s Corpus Christi IceRays about their vacant play-by-play position. His calls and emails were ignored and he never heard back from the team.



But the CHL league offices were in Phoenix and when Bogorad found out the dates for the annual league meetings, he got in his car and drove from his family’s home in Los Angeles to try and make the connection.



“I had a friend who lived there, so I could crash on his couch,” Bogorad said. “Then I basically crashed the job fair and introduced myself to the GM. When I told him my name he had this look of ‘This is the kid who has been blowing up my phone.’ We finally talked and I ended up with the...