The Professional Hockey Writers Association mourns the loss of longtime member and Boston Herald reporter Steve Harris, who passed away suddenly on Thursday at the age of 66.
Harris joined the Herald in 1976 and became a PHWA member in 1979, covering thousands of Bruins games over his parts of five different decades around the team.
“Steve Harris was the welcoming, familiar face you could expect to see on any trip to Boston,” PHWA president Mark Spector said. “He was a true pro’s pro, a consummate journalist who was always more concerned about getting the facts than making a splash. His thorough and well-written work did the talking for him. The press box at TD Garden won’t be the same without him.”
For today’s members of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association, Red Fisher was a link to a different time. A time before the internet, when hockey writers wearing Fedoras wrote willowy prose on typewriters, quotes scrawled on a notepad and a cigar burning in a nearby ashtray. A time when reporters and players gained trust in each other, because they had enough one-on-one time to allow for such a relationship to be built.
