Remember Hockey Digest?

[Tarantula]

My Aunt used to get them in the mail, and she didn't subscribe. I still have them as well, mid to late 70's. Still have my Hockey World and Hockey Illustrated from that time frame as well.

 

[member 83027]

RIP Red Fisher. He was the best

Red did other work besides the newspaper. Many pieces he did stuck out to me. Since this is a Hockey Digest forum will stick with this one.

His piece on the St Louis Blues vs LA Kings snow game in St Louis on Dec 19, 1973.

 

[Flamer12]

Use to get an issue in my stocking every Christmas. Ok magazine for a kid.

 

[Killion]

RIP Red Fisher. He was the best

Red did other work besides the newspaper. Many pieces he did stuck out to me. Since this is a Hockey Digest forum will stick with this one.

His piece on the St Louis Blues vs LA Kings snow game in St Louis on Dec 19, 1973.

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Very nice indeed. The man was a terrific writer, one of the best.

 

[SealsFan]

As a kid in the early 70's, I pretty much devoured any publication related to hockey, so I had this along with THN of course, and Hockey World and Hockey Pictorial. THN was my favorite because I could at least get a weekly article about the west coast teams that were largely ignored (Seals, Kings, Canucks); as one poster said, there was a NY/east coast bias in the hockey press. With the others, you might get a once-per-season article on a player from a west coast team. I mention this a lot, but it's unfathomable in the internet age that the Seals would play a Sunday night game in Oakland and there were times I wouldn't get the result here in NY until Long Island Newsday arrived on Tuesday afternoon!

I agree with Howie Hodge that hockey publications did become bland and vanilla over time, and I would add "safe" and "vapid" to that description...

 

[Olden McGroin]

Would get Hockey Digest, and the other hockey mags as gifts. All I have left is this Goal Magazine:

 

[VanIslander]

The Hockey Digest was fresh and different from the standard Canadian media hype. I enjoyed it sometimes.

I remember reading a great, detailed feature on an NCAA goaltending prospect I hadn't heard any other media outlet talk about, a youngum named Ryan Miller. I was impressed at the info I got out of that article and picked up Miller in all my keeper leagues. He went on to be a wise sleeper pick for me as he became the Sabres starter and eventual Vezina trophy winner.

We take for granted the variety we can get in media perspectives online nowadays with the Internet so saturating our lives and the invention of smartphones. Two decades ago, the local newspaper and THN were pretty much what we had to go on, and a few cable TV interview shows. In that environment, Hockey Digest at times was interesting.

 

[a79krgm]

Yeah, I remember the Hockey Digest well. Had a subscription in the early 1980's. I remember reading about a young Ray Bourque and about the comparisons that some where making about him to Bobby Orr. I used to bring an issue to school to read during study hall. The small size of the magazine fit perfectly within my 8th grade science text book so I could conceal what I was really reading.

 

[Lukin1978]

I never did get into it as a kid too busy with the hockey news used to collect a ton of those.

 

[Boxscore]

I loved Hockey Digest as a kid. Yeah, it was campy, but it was neat! I got my hands on any hockey mags I could find back then.