{"id":22022,"date":"2018-01-19T22:04:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=22022"},"modified":"2018-01-19T22:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T03:04:45","slug":"red-fisher-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/01\/19\/red-fisher-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Journalist Red Fisher Passes Away at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Montreal sportswriter <strong>Red Fisher<\/strong> has passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. The longtime writer chronicled hockey in the city for seven decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Red Fisher, who covered the Montreal Canadiens for nearly six decades for The Montreal Gazette and The Montreal Star, has passed away at the age of 91. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Au8vcVbKW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Au8vcVbKW4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCentre (@SportsCentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCentre\/status\/954465654664515584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Red Fisher Passes Away at Age 91<\/h2>\n<p>Fisher, whose first name was Saul, started on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/12\/11\/montreal-canadiens-loan-victor-mete-team-canada-world-junior-selection-camp\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> beat in 1955 with The Montreal Star. His first day on the job was March 17, 1955 when the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/richama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurice Richard<\/a><\/strong> Riot broke out after the Habs legend smacked linesman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thompcl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cliff Thompson<\/a><\/strong>. Richard was then suspended by league president <strong>Clarence Campbell<\/strong> and a\u00a0riot broke out at the Montreal Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher would go on to cover the Canadiens teams that won five Stanley Cups in a row in the 1950s and the dynasty teams of the 60s and 70s. He also covered the Summit Series in 1972 and was editor of the Star until the paper folded in 1979. He\u2019d then go over to the rival Montreal Gazette and would cover the Habs until he retired in 2012. He also would do guest columns until his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher was the longest-serving beat writer covering an NHL team. The journalist netted many awards while working for 10 editors and publishers. He won the Canadian National Newspaper Award three times. Fisher was given the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1985 and was a member of the Order of Canada in 2017. The Order of Canada is one of the country\u2019s highest civilian honours. He also penned a book in 1994 called \u201cHockey, Heroes and Me\u201d that was his memoirs.<\/p>\n<p>He was also inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.<\/p>\n<h2>Remembering Red<\/h2>\n<p>He had a no-nonsense approach when it came to reporting and that earned him respect around the league. Fisher would not talk to rookies and would walk away from anyone giving him canned clich\u00e9d answers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the best of his time,\u00a0and his time lasted a very long time,&#8221;\u00a0Canadiens Hall of Fame goaltender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drydeke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Dryden<\/a><\/strong> wrote in an <a href=\"http:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\/hockey-inside-out\/montreal-loses-a-hockey-legend-as-red-fisher-dies-at-age-91\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email to the Montreal Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo By <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"flickruser:38144472@N04\" href=\"\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/38144472@N04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Embassy Canada<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Flickr\" href=\"\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flickr<\/a>: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/38144472@N04\/4193706192\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ambassador Jacobson Joins Enthusiastic Crowd for Canadiens Game<\/a>, <a title=\"Creative Commons Attribution 2.0\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=45748103\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Montreal sportswriter Red Fisher has passed away at the age of 91 on Friday. The longtime writer chronicled hockey in the city for seven decades. Red Fisher, who covered the Montreal Canadiens for nearly six decades for The Montreal Gazette and The Montreal Star, has passed away at the age of 91. pic.twitter.com\/Au8vcVbKW4 &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":22026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,34],"tags":[2251,2248,2896],"class_list":["post-22022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadiens","category-featured","category-news","tag-ken-dryden","tag-maurice-richard","tag-red-fisher"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}