Eric Duhatschek hangs up his hat after 46 years [Video]

After 46 years of writing and meeting deadlines, Eric Duhatschek has decided to call it a career.

He’s hanging up his journalistic hat and says it’s been a great ride, but it’s time.

“It was an unexpectedly long run,” the 69-year-old said.

“If you’d told a 15-year-old version of me that wanted to do this that this is how his career would turn out, I wouldn’t have believed it.”

First big break

Duhatschek got his first big break in the newspaper industry back in 1978.

He was offered the chance to come to Calgary and work for the Albertan and says his job was to cover Ken Read and the Crazy Canucks.

“It was a dream come true to get this offer,” Duhatschek said.

“I packed up everything that I owned in my car and drove out to Calgary thinking it would be the first stop on a career that would eventually get back to Toronto. After a few months, I realized …