I had no idea there was a Black hockey league at one time called the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes. Seems that from 1895-1925 this league existed and consisted of the sons and grandsons of runaway slaves from the U.S.. The league itself was pretty innovative, like they apparently were the first ones to allow the slap shot and created a more offensive, wide open style of play.If you wanna learn more about it, check out this site I found George & Darril Fosty's Black Ice there's some interesting materials there and they are even making a documentary about it all, here's their promo, complete with John Tesh like super cheesy music, Ken Burns they are not:
Black Ice via AAEB
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