Hoang really isn’t in a frame of mind to accept that kind of offer. Let them spend that great money on someone who can actually speak to the sport’s eccentricities and details, have them know the game. Tossing money around isn’t the right move to make for anyone in a professional environment, taking that project on is just not the right thing to do to the broadcast company and the crew in charge there. Also at the head of his decision to turn it down is his lack of interest in putting on a face and a voice for the camera and microphone. It’s just effort and mind-space that would be better spent on hockey and personal life, not in a broadcast booth watching a sport he doesn’t pay attention to, trying to find something meaningful to say. There isn’t a whole lot meaningful he wants to say into a microphone right now either.