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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