Le Tricolore salue le journaliste battu de longue date Pat Hickey alors qu’il couvrait son dernier match à domicile samedi
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jshare
@Canadiens de Montréal
Le Tricolore salue le journaliste battu de longue date Pat Hickey alors qu’il couvrait son dernier match à domicile samedi
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jshare
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Biggest retirement since Red Fisher
Having met the guy a few times – real class act.
>Hickey is leaving his post at the Gazette, so another younger reporter can stay on as the Montreal newspaper’s parent company Postmedia makes cuts to the newsroom.
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> »I had enough seniority I could have stayed, but it would have meant that some younger people, people with mortgages and families, might have been put in jeopardy, » he said. « So I figured the best thing to do was to ride off into the sunset and give somebody else a chance. »
A piece of my childhood. I thought he was so cool when I heard him on the radio. Bless him, truly.
I never read the Gazette but I respect him for having this long of a career covering the Habs.