hockey of color

a blog for all hockey players of color, no matter the professional level or league.

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representation is everything

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Dennis Yan @ dev camp

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jue612: Exploring my Asian roots, channeling my inner Mulan and getting my steps in. Recipe for a great day. #onceyoufindyourcenteryouaresuretowin #greatwall #beijing #hockeytravels #tourismbeijing

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malcolm subban: 1st nhl win

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"I know there's going to be negative backlash. But, in my heart, I know I did what was right."

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JT Brown during the national anthem vs. Florida | 10/7/17

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© NWHL

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“I wear the number 42 cause of Jackie Robinson, for what he stands for and what he’s done to pave the way for people like myself to get a chance to play this game that I love. So I feel like it’s part of my duty to support of course. And especially what’s been going on, I think a lot of people have been missing the focus of what has been going on. So just trying to make them more aware, for others to know that these issues do happen on a day-to-day occurrence.”

Practice (9/27): Ward

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“Yeah, there’s a little bit of a lonely feeling,” says Smith-Pelly. “I mean, all of us are on our teams by ourselves: there’s not two of us together, or three of us together. So if one of us were to do this, and nobody else on the team jumped in, you’re really by yourself. I can go to Joel and say, hey — because he understands what I’m going through as a black man in America. I can’t go to anyone on my team and have them understand really how it is to be in my shoes. Just because I’m a professional hockey player: they just don’t understand. So it’s really lonely in that sense. You don’t really have anyone.”

Devante Smith-Pelly, 

I cried yesterday after reading that article (please read it: It’s lonely living among hockey’s silent majority) 

I understand that sense of loneliness, of not being able to speak out because who here will get it. Well-meaning white friends (and perfectly nice straight pals) may listen for a bit, but I don’t know if I can count on them to have my back. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve not said something about race because I didn’t want to make the white folk around me uncomfortable - I hate that, but it’s true.

The wonderful Jashvina Shah, a hockey reporter of Indian origin, has been so painfully honest about the discrimination she experiences; the casual racism and microaggressions as she covers the sport she loves. Reflecting here on that article she says, “What it’s like when you turn the person next to you expecting them to stand up for you and the sinking feeling when they won't” (I recommend the whole thread)

This stuff sits really heavy in my heart. Yes, it’s painful to have hatred directly targetted at you, but this eternal loneliness, the quieter betrayal of ‘good White people’ - that hurts. 

(via whisperyvoices)

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This or That with Brigette Lacquette

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Nazem Kadri - September 16, 2017

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Jamie Lee Rattray. Brampton Thunder 2016-2017 Photo Credit: Jess Bazal/CWHL

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favourite flames prospects (1/?): oliver kylington, #58, defenceman ↳ My experience is that most people understand that the sport takes center stage and one’s ethnicity shouldn’t be a hindrance. Also, there aren’t a lot of people of color in the world’s hockey leagues, which makes people of color extra proud of the ones that are there and performing well.

age: 20 (may 19, 1997) height: 6'0″ birthplace: stockholm, sweden draft: 60th overall in 2015  nhl debut: april 9th, 2016, 2-1 win over the minnesota wild trivia: youngest player in the league in his first ahl season, second youngest defenceman to make his debut in flames franchise history, first nhl player of eritrean descent

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Why isn't the 'Wayne Gretzky of Women's Hockey' better known? - Sportsnet.ca

Angela James was women's hockey's first superstar and remains the only black player to captain Canada at the senior level. So why isn't she a household name?

Angela James needed just five games at the first-ever IIHF Women’s World Championship to announce herself to the world. She hit nearly every opponent in her path. She scored 11 times. She and her 13 points led Canada, clad in their pink-and-white jerseys, to a gold medal. Cassie Campbell-Pascall was then a teenager, one of more than a million people who tuned in to watch the first-ever worlds on TV back in 1990. “She dominated,” the two-time Olympic gold medallist says of James, the woman she’d later call a teammate. “There was no one who could take over the game physically like Ang. “She was, I think, the first superstar of women’s hockey.” She was. And if she were playing today, James’s story would be well known, that of a black youngster who escaped a dangerous neighbourhood thanks to her other-worldly skill on the ice and a physical style we’ll never see again in a women’s game that no longer includes body-checking. But because she never played at the Olympics, on the biggest stage available to female hockey players, one of the most influential women to ever lace up a pair of skates was denied the full spotlight. It’s a shame—for James, and for fans of the game—because her story is unlike any we’ve heard about a hockey star. And there will never be another player like her. 

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Welcome to the Red Wings! (x)

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training camp: jujhar khaira