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 ...

Seeing his vision come to life and being able to give young black hockey players and their parents ... she didn’t like it at first because she had no friends and didn’t see herself improving ...

In the meantime, hockey's best and most promising Black players continue to log major milestones. Blake Bolden, the first Black player in the defunct National Women's Hockey League, joined the L.A ...

Transplanting Canada’s game to Black America, Abercrombie avows, is “an opportunity to dream that could honestly be the only ...

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 ...

When Willie O’Ree debuted with the Bruins on Jan. 18, 1958, he was the first Black player to skate in the NHL. He appeared in two games for Boston that season and another 43 in 1960-61.

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 ...

In fact, before the late 1950s, there were no Black hockey players in the NHL. Willie O'Ree was the first to skate in an NHL game when he suited up for the Boston Bruins on Jan. 18, 1958 ...

scrappy captain of the Black Bears, a 20-year-old from Long Island, N.Y., named Tyler Stern who was one of the first players to say Yes to Tennessee State. “I’m already a minority in hockey ...

The Hawks lost 6-2 on Tuesday in goalie Spencer Knight's first rough start for the team, although the turnover-prone players ...

Adeniye's journey has included being born with misaligned eyes and playing college hockey at a program that folded. Adeniye is a protege of Willie O'Ree, the NHL's first Black player, and is ...

The Colored Hockey League existed in the late 19th ... Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins became the first Black NHL player in 1958. Bruce Bennett / Getty Images When it comes to honoring those ...