Legendary hockey writer Frank Orr passed away yesterday at the age of 84. The 1989 recipient of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award “in recognition of distinguished members of the newspaper profession whose words have brought honour to journalism and to hockey,” Orr was, by all accounts, an even better person than he was a writer.
The Professional Hockey Writers Association paid tribute to their “No. 3 card holder at the time of his passing, the organization’s second-longest living lifetime member” on Saturday, and the Maple Leafs honored him with a video appreciation that ran during last night’s game:
Remembering longtime sports writer and Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award winner Frank Orr, who covered the Leafs and hockey for six decades.