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RED
FISHER
Country: Canada
Born: August 22, 1926
in Montreal, Quebec
Montreal Gazette sports editor and sports columnist Red Fisher
has been covering the National Hockey League since 1954. He was elected
to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985, the second year the Elmer Ferguson
Award was awarded.
Fisher began covering the NHL and Montreal Canadiens for the Montreal Star in
1954, when he joined the newspaper as its beat hockey writer and assistant sports
editor. One year later, he added the duties of daily columnist.
In 1969, Fisher was named the Star’s sports editor, but he continued
to cover Canadiens’ hockey. In 1971, he won the Canadian Newspaper Award
for sportswriting.
When the Star shuttered in 1979, Red moved to the sports editor’s
desk at the Montreal Gazette, where he continued to cover beat NHL hockey
in addition to his editorial duties.
In 1991, Red again won the Canadian National Newspaper Award. At the time of
publication of this book, he is in his forty-seventh year covering the NHL. |
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