HALIFAX, N.S. – Canada Post has unveiled a stamp honouring the Colored Hockey Championship and the all-Black hockey teams in the Maritimes that competed for it between 1895 and the early 1930s. In this little-known chapter in Canadian hockey history, determined organizers and players arranged their own challenge matches, dispelling hurtful misconceptions and changing the […]
By Macera Akilah Thomas was away on a business trip to Atlanta but was glued to her cell phone as Canada and Russia locked horns in 2020 World Junior Hockey gold medal game in the Czech Republic. With 3:58 minutes left in a 3-3 game, her son Akil hopped on the ice and closed in […]
By Macera Akilah Thomas was away on a business trip to Atlanta but was glued to her cell phone as Canada and Russia locked horns in 2020 World Junior Hockey gold medal game in the Czech Republic. With 3:58 minutes left in a 3-3 game, her son Akil hopped on the ice and closed in […]
Jamaica’s ice hockey team trounced defending champions Colombia in the first game of their Group A fixture in the LATAM Cup 2019 at the Florida Panthers Ice Den in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last Friday evening. The score was tied at 0-0 after two of the three periods, but Jamaica scored five minutes into the third […]
FREDERICTON— Willie O’Ree, the first black player in the National Hockey League, was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Tuesday. O’Ree, 82, who hails from Fredericton, New Brunswick, will be the third black player in the Hall, joining Edmonton Oilers goalie Grant Fuhr and Canadian women’s national team captain Angela James. On January […]
PORTLAND, Maine – The Boston Bruins updated the condition of Malcolm Subban after the goaltending prospect took a puck to his throat before his AHL game Saturday night in Portland. Malcolm Subban, of Caribbean heritage, “was struck in the throat with a puck Saturday night during pregame warmups. He was transported to Maine Medical Centre […]
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P.K. Subban came home on the weekend and gave his Jamaican-Canadian fans – but not Leafs fans – one more reason to love him. The Montreal Canadiens star defenceman, born in Toronto of Jamaican parents, played at the Air Canada Centre Saturday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs, beating the Leafs 4-3 with a shootout […]
Graeme Townshend, the first Jamaican-born player in the NHL and a former skating coach for the Maple Leafs, hopes to help Jamaica field an Olympic hockey team in the next eight to 20 years. A talent identification camp this weekend in Toronto is the first step to the Olympics for a country with no rinks. […]
COULD THIS BE THE YEAR WE GO ALL THE WAY. Mark Fraser is one of the premier defencemen that have played for the Lowell Devils. He is now playing in the New Jersey Devils where he is considered a rising star. His career has been going steady upwards since 2009 and he has been getting […]
