so there was an all-Black hockey league years BEFORE the NHL?

[jadillac]

as Black ppl, we gotta stop with these stereotypes we're ALL guilty of.

"Black ppl don't do this....black ppl don't listen to that...."

Because the truth is, we were originally at the forefront of many things we now shun.

Coloured Hockey League - Wikipedia

The Coloured Hockey League was an all-black ice hockey league founded in Nova Scotia in 1895,[1] which featured teams from across Canada's Maritime Provinces.[2][3] The league operated for several decades lasting until 1930.

With as many as a dozen teams, over 400 African Canadian players from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island participated in competition.[13] The Coloured Hockey League is credited by some as being the first league to allow the goaltender to leave his feet to cover a puck in 1900. This practice was not permitted elsewhere until the formation of the National Hockey League in 1917. In their book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925, historians George and Darril Fosty state that the first player to use the slapshot was Eddie Martin of the Halifax Eureka in 1906.

 

[mr heyzel]

Good find family

 

[beenz]

this is news to me as well

 

[MikelArteta]

Yeah thread has been made on here before

Also read up on th black Wayne Gretzky herb Carnegie the gawd

Herb Carnegie: The best black hockey player to never play in the NHL

 

[NormanConnors]

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Tim2520]

wow I never heard of this, good looking on the info