He played junior hockey with the Hamilton Red Wings, Kitchener Rangers, and the Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Hockey League. The Pittsburgh Penguins chose him 62nd overall in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft. Hoganson turned pro in 1969-70 and spent most of the next four years in the Penguins' farm system, playing 2 games with the Pens in 1970-71. In 1973-74 he jumped to the Los Angeles Sharks of the World Hockey Association (WHA) and spent the next five years with six different teans in that league. He played for the Tucson Rustlers of the Pacific Hockey League in 1978-79 and then retired.