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Talking Red Fisher As He Celebrates Turning 84
by Paul on 08/23/10 at 07:11 AM ET
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from Mike Boone of the Montreal Gazette,
If Red Fisher were writing this story about himself, it might start like this:
“Come with me now to the moments following Game 6 of the Stanley Cup conference semifinal. A guy was asked whether Jaroslav Halak’s 52-save performance was the best goaltending he’d seen in the playoffs ...”
The guy was Red Fisher. And everyone in the Bell Centre press box was asking the Living Legend of Sports Journalism to compare what we’d just seen to what he’s seen since 1955.
To deliver his authoritative assessments, WikiRed, the human hockey Google, plumbs the database in his head: about 6,000 game stories, 17 of the Canadiens’ 24 Stanley Cups, including five in his first five years on the beat, 26 Hall of Fame Habs.
You can watch hockey highlights on YouTube. You can read bulletins on Twitter. You can listen to sports talk radio.
But to contextualize the bleu-blanc-rouge, you have to read Red.
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Red Fisher Returns
by Paul on 09/27/08 at 07:03 AM ET
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from Mike Boone of the Montreal Gazette,
The key issue was motivation. Did he want to put his no-longer-young body through the rigours of an 82-game season - plus what everyone in Montreal prays will be a deep playoff run? The mental aspect of the game is even more
gruelling. A perfectionist who’s notoriously hard on himself, he had to decide whether he was psychologically ready for the total commitment that an NHL season demands.
I am referring, of course, to the Living Legend of Sports Journalism. And I am delighted to report that after carefully weighing his options - writing about the sport he loves and understands better than anyone this side of Scotty Bowman vs. playing pinochle with retired garment industry executives at the Cavendish Mall - the LLSJ has saddled up for at least one more cattle drive.
*picture via canada.com
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Fisher & Hockey Go Together
by Paul on 04/11/08 at 08:46 PM ET
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from William Houston of the Globe and Mail,
On Thursday night, Red Fisher wrote a column on deadline, as he usually does, off the Montreal Canadiens-Boston Bruins playoff opener.
Yesterday morning, he put together his usual Saturday package consisting of a column and NHL notebook that will fill a page in today’s Montreal Gazette.
Tonight, he will be back at the Bell Centre press box in Montreal, writing on deadline.
“Doesn’t everybody do it?” he asked yesterday.
Some do, but Fisher will be 82 in August, an age when all but very few sportswriters are long retired and telling war stories.
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