Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun has acknowledged the contentious comments he recently made about former Bruins center Marc Savard.
“What I wrote about him was improperly worded and far too harsh,” Simmons said in a column published Saturday. “For that, I apologize.”
Simmons received significant backlash for comments from a previous piece in which he recommended other members of the media not respond to Savard’s phone calls because he “basically disappeared” when his professional hockey career ended.
“Media called. Nobody answered,” Simmons wrote in the story published last Saturday.