Daryl Reaugh has spent a 30-year career in broadcasting as the NHL's thesaurus, with superlatives such as elephantine, mastodonic, mammoth, larceny, buxom, velvety and more spilling out of his mouth with excited ease like a rock star jamming out his greatest hits.

Ironically, Reaugh, a voice of the Dallas Stars since 1996 and famously known for his "Razori-sms," can now use some of his deep vocabulary to describe the award he is receiving Monday.

"It's bizarre," Reaugh told NHL.com.

Reaugh is being honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame with the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to hockey broadcasting, a fitting tribute to a man who characterizes himself as an analyst who once was a goalie with a 27-game cup of coffee in the NHL, not a goalie turned analyst.

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