but he was also the first Black player to score 20 goals in a major hockey league. He had a 21-goal campaign in 1972-73 split between the New York Raiders and Los Angeles Sharks. That same season ...

He became the Jets’ first Black player when they chose him in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft after the merger with the World Hockey Association that brought Winnipeg, the Oilers, Whalers and ...

Kelsey Koelzer is a former Princeton University player who became the first Black woman to coach an NCAA hockey team. In 2016, she became the first Black player to be chosen No. 1 in the National ...

and even fellow Hockey Hall of Famer Herb Carnegie, long considered the best Black player who never made the NHL but played on the first all-Black line in professional hockey. Long after the ...

The University of Wisconsin junior, who wears the title of “first” proudly, is holding down her place in history as the first Black woman to play for the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team.