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In 2018, O'Ree was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, and starting that year the NHL has introduced the annual Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award in his honor. Early life and career William Eldon O'Ree [ 1 ] was born on October 15, 1935, in Fredericton , New Brunswick, [ 2 ] to Harry, [ 3 ] a civil engineer and road maintenance worker, [ 2 ...
Boston Bruins forward Willie O'Ree warms up prior to a game against the New York Rangers in 1960. AP PhotoAlmost everybody knows about Jackie Robinson and the historic role he played integrating ...
ESPN has iced a deal for Willie, a documentary film about the remarkable life of the National Hockey League's first black player. ESPN2 will have the TV premiere of the pic about Willie O'Ree on ...
During one game in 1961, Nesterenko infamously attacked Willie O'Ree, the first Black player in the NHL, with racial slurs and butt-ended O'Ree with his hockey stick, breaking O'Ree's nose and knocking out his front teeth. O'Ree retaliated with his stick and Nesterenko required 15 stitches in his head.
When O'Ree first entered the league as the first ice hockey player of African descent, he received no recognition from the league or the media. The media did not publish any articles that the color line in ice hockey had been broken. Some newspapers who reported about the first game O'Ree played confused O'Ree's first name Willie, as Billy. O ...
O'Ree joined the Boston Bruins in the late 1950s, becoming the first Black player in the NHL.
Willie O'Ree debuts with the Boston Bruins in a game against the Montreal Canadiens, becoming the first Black player to play in the NHL. Willie would later be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame 60 years later [43]
Jan. 19—(Editor's note: Willie O'Ree had his number retired last night by the Bruins. O'Ree was in Methuen three years ago signing autographs and our Bill Burt caught up with O'Ree talking about ...