Overview
- He died Thursday after a brief battle with cancer, the New York Post announced.
- Over 38 years at the Post across two tenures, he covered the Islanders, Devils and Rangers and launched the Sunday Slap Shots column in 1995.
- From 1982 to 1992 he served as the New Jersey Devils’ senior vice president of communications, bringing rare team-side experience to his reporting.
- He led the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association from 2001 to 2003 and received the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2018.
- The NHL, Wayne Gretzky, colleagues and former players posted tributes, with reports noting John Tortorella recently reached out and that he is survived by his son Jordan, daughter-in-law Joanna and two grandchildren.