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Herb Carnegie: HHOF

The following is my submission to a movement to induct Herb Carnegie into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Please visit https://www.hockeyfansforchange.org/herbcarnegie to sign the petition and write your own letter of recommendation.

I was born into a hockey family, my fandom has been lifelong. From the time I could talk or think hockey has been a big part of my life, and I as continue to grow, learn, and understand more about the world we live in and it’s history, so to does my understanding of the great game evolve.

In my youth I played at Herb Carnegie arena for the Goulding Park Rangers, thus from my early teen years I was somewhat familiar with his story. It was around that time that I would include him when recreating legendary players in my NHL video games. Honestly, at the time I didn’t understand a lot about racism, and even less about how much the very institutions that raised me, namely Canada and hockey, have been shaped by it.

It should be beyond clear that the only things that kept Mr. Carnegie out of the NHL were the bigoted views of the league itself. Moreover, since the earliest days of the sport, hockey has been shaped and augmented by Black and Indigenous peoples as well as people of Colour. Most notably the Coloured Hockey League being credited with the creation of the slapshot and goalies leaving their feet were both years ahead of their time. Not only were these bigoted views that kept Mr. Carnegie out of the league hateful and racist, they were the in open defiance to the history of the game itself. Had the league been open to players of Colour, who knows how much greater its impact on the world would be. Considering the demographics of Toronto, having a prominent star player of Jamaican Canadian descent would undoubtedly impact generations to come. How much was robbed from Mr. Carnegie, from the BIPOC before and after him, from the game itself because of this one decision? If you can see it you can be it. Representation is so important.

Unfortunately, what’s done is done. The vile and hateful mistakes that have been made in the past cannot be changed. Those mistakes which set the sport back decades, that obscure it from its true history, and that whitewash it into a pale form of its true self continue to happen to this day. In part, this is because of the world in which we live, but undeniably another part of it stems from the decisions made by the hockey community itself. We cannot change the past, but we can change the way we look back on it, and what we do going forward.

With all that being said it should be obvious that Mr. Carnegie belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It should be fairly obvious that the work doesn’t stop there either. Not only has Mr. Carnegie’s excellence and love for the game been recognized by the Orders of Ontario and Canada, but the consequences of his mistreatment are only becoming more and more apparent. It is through weakness, hatred, and bigotry that the game has been fractured intentionally, that this reality of hockey explicitly not being for everyone exists. It is only through repentance, admissions of past mistakes, and reconciliation that the game can become whole with its destiny. That is why it is paramount that Mr. Herb Carnegie be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. All branches of hockey operations have work to do, but as the enshrinement of history, the official memory of the game’s greatness, the Hall of Fame has the unique power and opportunity to make a palpable difference in this matter and those of its likeness, the ability to help return the game from those it has been denied to.

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Carnegie retired in 1954 and achieved as much success off the ice as he did on it. He was a financial advisor; started the Future Aces Hockey School, one of the first hockey academies in Canada; became a champion senior golfer; and developed the Future Aces Creed, a 12-point philosophy to help mold youngsters into responsible citizens. He is enshrined in 13 halls of fame and was invested in the Order of Canada, one of the nation's highest civilian honors. Berman said he intends to push for a 14th by writing a public submission to the Hockey Hall of Fame next year advocating Carnegie's induction. Bernice Carnegie is doing her part to keep her father's name alive in the Hall debate too. Canadian publisher ECW Press is re-releasing his 1996 autobiography "A Fly in a Pail of Milk: The Herb Carnegie Story," with new chapters written by his daughter.

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Carnegie, the son of Jamaican immigrants to Canada, was a dazzling center who played in the Quebec Provincial Hockey League, the Quebec Senior Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey Association Senior A League and is widely considered to be the best black player never to play in the NHL. He played for the Quebec Aces from 1949-53, where he was a teammate with a hockey prodigy named Jean Beliveau. He was part of the Black Aces, professional hockey's first all-black line that also featured his brother, Ossie, and Manny McIntyre. Carnegie won two scoring titles and three Most Valuable Player awards in the QPHL from 1944-48.

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Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday ... Herb Carnegie

Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday … Herb Carnegie

was a Canadian ice hockey player. He was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jamaican parents. He played professional hockey at a time when there was racial discrimination in the NHL that prevented him from playing for the New York Rangers in the 1948-49 season. After his professional hockey career was over, he became a successful businessman working in the investment industry. In 1954, he founded one of…

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