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November 30, 2011 at 7:57 pm #4919

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Kelley honoured in Buffalo

Sportsnet Staff, November 30, 2011

The city of Buffalo honoured Jim Kelley on Tuesday by naming a section of the downtown core after the late hockey columnist.

Jim Kelley Way is now a one-block section of Washington Street between First Niagara Center and The Buffalo News, where Kelley spent most of his journalism career.

Kelley began reporting on the NHL in 1981 for The Buffalo News and went on to cover the Stanley Cup final for 23 straight years.

In 2004, Kelley received the prestigious Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for honour in journalism and hockey. Later the same year he would be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Kelley had been a columnist for sportsnet.ca and a regular broadcaster on Sportsnet 590 The Fan for the last several years before his death.

Only ours before his passing last November, Kelley filed a column evaluating the two-year reign of Leafs general manager Brian Burke in Toronto called 'All part of the process'.

Kelley died at age 61 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

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