ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Duante' Abercrombie still vividly remembers being a young player attending the second-ever Willie O'Ree ...

The Willie O’Ree Community Hero Award honors former ... For more than two decades, O’Ree has served as the NHL’s Diversity Ambassador, traveling across North America to schools and hockey ...

Willie O’Ree was 14 or 15 years old when he broke through his ... how he returned to the game as the NHL’s diversity ambassador in the late 1990s, and his induction into the Hall of Fame as a builder ...

Wearing a black fedora and a black pea coat, Willie O’Ree watches young hockey players skate on ... The sport has changed since then, O’Ree acknowledged, and in his role as the NHL’s diversity ...

The NHL has announced the six finalists for the Willie O’Ree Community Hero Award. The award is given to the “individual who, through the sport of hockey, has positively impacted their ...