There's no shortage of reaction following the death of Montreal sports writing legend Red Fisher.
The longtime newspaper reporter who covered the Canadiens for decades died Friday at the age of 91.
Sports Illustrated's Michael Farber, who's also a CJAD 800 contributor, worked with Fisher at the Gazette.
He said Fisher, described as the conscience of hockey, didn't just write articles.
"They were novellas. They had characters, they had plots, they were mini works of art, little novella, 800-word novellas. No one quite wrote a game story like him", said Farber.
Ron Reusch, former sports director and sportscaster at CTV Montreal, said, among other things, Fisher was very thorough and never missed a story.
"Just an old-fashioned newspaper man who not only knew how to report, but also knew how to write", said Reusch.
Dick Irvin, Reusch's longtime colleague at CTV, previously known as CFCF TV, said Fisher was different.
"He was just a cut above the rest of us and he got people's attention and he knew who to talk to, he knew the angles to cover", said Irvin, also a longtime sportscaster and sports director at CTV, during an interview on the Aaron Rand show.
Hockey analyst Pierre McGuire was among the many people who reacted to Fisher's death.
"That is a tough one to hear... living legend, larger than life character, eccentric beyond belief, intelligent beyond your own imagination and loyal as a day is long... that was Red", said McGuire during an interview on TSN 690.
Fisher broke major stories and covered the biggest events in hockey and occasionally other sports as a writer and sports editor at the Montreal Star and The Montreal Gazette.