What is Red Fisher?
{{Infobox person |name=Red Fisher |image=Red Fisher.jpg |imagesize= |caption=Fisher in December 2009 |birth_name= |birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1926|08|22}} |birth_place=[[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]] |death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2018|1|19|1926|8|22}} |death_place=Montreal, Quebec, Canada |occupation=[[Sports]] [[journalist]] |years_active=1954-2012 }} '''Red Fisher''' (22 August 1926 &ndash; 19 January 2018) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[retire]]d sports journalist. His columns focused on the [[National Hockey League]] and its [[Montreal Canadiens]] team. He was born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. he began his hockey coverage in ''[[The Montreal Star]]'' newspaper in 1954 where he remained as writer and sports editor until that paper's demise in 1979. He retired in 2012.<ref>{{cite news | first=Alan | last=Allnutt | url=https://montrealgazette.com/Legendary+Fisher+calls+career/6750726/story.html | title=Legendary Fisher Calls it a Career | newspaper=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]] | location=Montreal | date=8 June 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Fisher died in Montreal on 19 January 2018 at the age of 91.<ref>[https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/nhl/hockey-inside-out/montreal-loses-a-hockey-legend-as-red-fisher-dies-at-age-91 Montreal loses a hockey legend as Red Fisher dies at age 91]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/red_fisher.html ''Montreal Gazette'': Red Fisher] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060807005441/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/red_fisher.html |date=2006-08-07 }}, accessed 11 November 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Red}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:Canadian journalists]] [[Category:Elmer Ferguson Award winners]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Writers from Montreal]] {{bio-stub}}