Hockey Hall of Fame: Did You Know...?
Gladyce Stehr
2025-05-04 08:51:01
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Maye Crooks
2025-05-04 04:27:37
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It’s really hard to identify who was the first because if you go back into everyone’s certain ancestry, a lot of people will have Indigenous or other minority groups in them, so it’s hard to pinpoint. There might be the first publicly known, but it’s probably near impossible just because so many people that had Indigenous or other minority backgrounds maybe didn’t look like it.
There are no detailed demographical records from the NHL’s earliest years, the league and historians say. Because of that — and because some players hid or downplayed their own Indigenous or Asian heritage to avoid racist treatment — defining the sport’s trailblazers and who broke the so-called “color barrier” in the NHL is difficult at best and likely impossible to prove. League executives and researchers say they have looked into cases like Abel's and Maracle's and are not comfortable declaring a “first” among Native or Indigenous players because there's no way of proving it.
Gregorio Wilderman
2025-05-04 04:10:16
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The greatest individual honor that can be bestowed upon a professional hockey player is to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Players celebrates each and every one of the 276 players who have been so honored since the Hall of Fame's first class in 1945. Hockey