Willie O'Ree and Other Black NHL Players - Feature

[BobbyBars14]

@blacktic01

Subban is the future? Hahahaha.

Hes ranked at a whopping 232nd in points thus far. Hes garbage offensively, and on top of that, he cant even throw his fists around. Hes a weak player if you ask me.

[xxkiingcrustxx]

the few

the proud

the black hockey players

[KasimKeto]

It's called the "One Drop" rule

[Raxmus96]

its ironic, he was on boston bruins and their very racist

[6958921]

wtf black people like basketball not hockey, get em out!

[xxkiingcrustxx]

the few, the proud.... the black hockey players.

[SilverSon87]

There is so many black guys who play hockey on my school team there really good like respect them.

[kooltomax]

For someone to break the color barrier, the NHL sure don't talk about Willie O'Ree. I don't think they even celebrate Black History Month. Hell, NASCAR celebrates Black History Month and they don't even have a full time Black driver in their top 3 series.

[CheddarBob39]

@kooltomax

kind of makes sense when you look at it realistically and stop putting a "racial tone" on it that really if you think about it doesn't exist but in your own mind. 

[kooltomax]

@CheddarBob39 So there is no racism in hockey? So a fan never threw a banana at Wayne Simmonds, and Black players don't deal with racial taunts in the Juniors/Pros, those was made up. The fact is hockey doesn't bother much to increase diversity. And you say it takes time to learn the sport, well how can you learn the sport IF YOU AREN'T EXPOSED TO IT? Baseball, basketball, football, and even tennis, golf, auto racing, and extreme sports made efforts to increase diversity. Hockey, not so much.

[CheddarBob39]

@kooltomax

I stand......corrected.

[CheddarBob39]

@kooltomax

Alright..not funny at all. Just trying to lighten the mood.

[blacktic01]

PK SUBBAN IS THE FUTURE

[MrNaKeD247]

im black and i like hockey now anyone whats wrong with that?

[honeegrrl]

@MrNaKeD247 Nothing. I'm black and I love to watch ice skating even though I can't skate but I love to watch it.

[tom3999]

hockey takes alot of skating skill and its cold, its a european ice sport black people are good at running , they dont care about skating and hate being cold

[honeegrrl]

@tom3999 All black people can't run, I'm one of them, in fact, I'm black and can't even dance so don't generalize all black people. My ex boyfriend is black and he's 6'5 and he couldn't shoot a basketball in the hoop if it was 2 feet off the ground.

[manhattan85]

Canadian history is littered with names of black hockey players on junior levels who dealt with racism along the way. Some of the names: Herb Carnegie, John Saunders, Tommy Kane. One is in the hall of fame because he got fucked over because he was black, one is successful sportscaster at ESPN, and one is in prison for kiiling his wife. I doubt VERY HIGHLY many people in CANADA know about this. Lovely pieces like this mean VERY LITTLE TO SOME.

[wogacelli]

niggers and ice don't mix. It's not that they're black it's just that they suck at hockey.

[waffle1997]

@wogacelli FUCK YOU CRACKER

[HOCKAKAY]

I am an avid hockey fan, and it just disappoints me so much that Hockey is the last proffessional sport to break the colour barrier, and don't take this wrong but Willie O'ree shouldn't have been the first Black player in the league. It should've been the Carnegie Brothers in the 50's. Damn racist team owners.

[Top360Modz]

I think Joel Ward i one of the best NHL players out there right now.

[squirrel3211able]

That's why hockey suck they really need more black player's when you think about sports super powers NFL/NBA/BASEBALL all got black player's man I'm black and I love hockey I'm from detroit, detroit red wings the best hockey team ever

[Reaktionar]

@squirrel3211able That is just hypocritical. Should we have programs encouraging whites to play basketball? After all it is very dominated by blacks. No, I don't think we should have such programs. I think we should let the best players play. The same goes for hockey.

[squirrel3211able]

@Reaktionar Hell maybe they should have more programs to find the very best. one I whould love to see the next larry bird hockey is in a very bad state ratings can't hold they own with the other sports maybe cause they only got a hand full of people watching it take a look at golf when tiger woods was doing his thing golf ratings went up because they more people watching it I hate to say but hockey need to do what some of the other sports already done and thats come to the ghetto

[MATechz]

@squirrel3211able I don't get how you can say that hockey suck, and that u love hockey in the same comment. By the way, haven't you thought about, that maybe there ain't that many GOOD black players. If there were they would get drafted for sure i'll tell ya.

[squirrel3211able]

That's why hockey suck they really need more black player's when you think about sports super powers NFL/NBA/BASEBALL all got black player's man I'm black and I love hockey I'm from detroit, detroit red wings the best hockey eam ever

[okpapereat]

One of my favorite black player is Anson Carter, hes way cool

[ueiwqoak]

72 years old?!

he looks 50

[killerskillet]

I have to say... he looks like he could be Ray Emery's dad.

[stridetide155]

sidney crosby would own this bitch

[AfroTurft]

yo it bout tym dat whitez let black playaz join da hockey teamz. dis is still 1 of da most racist sportz dat discrimated against our people. now dat obama is prez we b seein more black folkz in everythin so yo hockey honkeyz betta watch yo ass. we gonna prove dat we betta den u whitez at any sport. it not surprizin dat dis sport is moslty white cuz it cumz from canada a mostly all white country n not jus cuz of all da snow. in fact i dont think i eva seen a black person in canada.

[MAMJAM55]

You know what? This shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Everybody should know that no matter what colour your skin is, you could be whoever you wanna be. I don't know why people are so surprised by black hockey players, I'm of African Decent and I don't even like rap music (i hate it actually)

[kidkong584]

I love the episode of Everybody Hates Chris when Willie O'Ree is talking to them on Coney Island.

[BananaLoaves]

I had no idea that O'Ree was doing this. He was way ahead of his time.

[LiveLoveBurnDie28]

Fredericton New Brunswick REPRESENT!!

[luridplanet]

He had a great career in Western Hockey League, which was very nearly as good as the NHL at that time. He got paid there better than NHL

[Jefgg]

I was once speaking about the sport of hockey and had a slip of the tongue and called it honky. Or maybe it was a Freudian slip.

[mablabin14]

im black and i play hockey

[mat4mckay]

@123DROCK mma Brock lesnar, shane carwin, Maurico rua, george st. pierre, frankie edgar, all current champions. golf, Jack Nickolas (greatest of all time) and everyone except tiger but he's only half black, tennis, everyone except venus and serena, soccer, messa, ronaldo, rooney,... hockey the best black player of all time jarome iginla, black father white mother. You dominate in NFL because only americans play it and basketball even though nash has won mvp twice.

thats not domination

[M90LX]

@mat4mckay

black people are much more athletic and physically gifted, the reason they don't dominate hockey is because many of them can't afford tp play it.

[mat4mckay]

@M90LX The fact that it does cost a lot of money has to do with it, but it's also about geography.

I reject the concept that black people are better at sports. In the USA due to genetic breeding during slave times it seems to have had a dramatic effect on some of the black population but black people in general are not better athletes.

The reason that makes no sense is because there is a massive difference in body-type among a wide spectrum of black people throughout the world.

[M90LX]

@mat4mckay On average, blacks are bigger, stronger, faster, more agile, more explosive and have better reflexes, which pretty much indicates that they r superior in terms of athleticism. The only time white people are better than blacks in sports is when blacks dont have the resources to accel in the sport. Think about it, if we had big explosive black guys, such as mario williams, dwight howard, n ben wallace play hockey, nobody would stop them. They would b bigger n faster than every1 else.

[Latexi84]

@M90LX Meh... I still prefer to be clever and white than black andgood in sports.

So fuck it

[Superplatanoman]

@Latexi84 And you are a moron too

[mat4mckay]

@123DROCK Thats not even close to true.

[Aiziah09]

Then came Grant Fuhr, Anson Carter, George Laraque, Jarome Iginla, Mike Grier, Wayne Simmonds and Pk Subbans. I might have forgotten some names but hey it would be great for the sport !! The game needs more swags! and these guys all have it :)

[bear022013]

These jigs are so inept that they must be given everything.THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN WAKE UP WHITE MAN

[Brendan2080]

hmm all my black friends say hockey sucks and theyd rather play like football, basketball, etc.

[sgsfdgfsdfsdfsddf]

Robinson played a real sport and was good at it... not just some player

[raj2007ca]

will o reed and tony mckegny were ok if not even avg.  But grant fuhr paved the way he was having success with the edmonton oilers and was also canada's goalie in the 84 and 87 canada cups.

[Guapwong]

Wow. I did not notice the interview was done while the black player was doing warm ups.

[azbaldy5]

i hope more top black athletes choose the sport of hockey, if hockey had guys like emmitt smith and jerry rice and deion sanders, if they had been exposed to the game at a young age they would probably have been great nhl players.

[bear022013]

@azbaldy5 ,  PROBABLY WHAT? IS THERE A SWAHILI WORD FOR WHEEL? GET IT?

[dathuglovegel2much]

I'm a big hockey fan from Montreal,By experience Black slash immigrants hockey players are more intimated by other immigrants judgment than playing a white man's sport ,but I think it's really changing cuz black kids look up for Pk Subban ,arabs for Nazim Kadri and Latinos for Scott and I know one day there will be as much white pp in the nba that they will be black,arabs,latinos in the nhl.

[Defenseman619]

yes, dathuglove... one day the historically black sport of basketball might one day get a white guy or two in it. Seriously? FAIL

[ThEsHeEn117]

@494231002 LOL you tard. Basketball was made by the romans.

[hoodfellah]

hahaahah@game

[gamer4234]

hey people im spanish and i want to go to a hockey game some day but i relized that most hockey fans are white so im wonduring do you think i can go to a hockey game without people starring or saying anything to us or looks stuff like that so please reply

[cw1310]

@gamer4234 No problem. Go and have fun. unles you are a leaf fan. Just kidding.

[gamer4234]

haha Thanks

[azbaldy5]

just go and enjoy the game YOU WILL BE HOOKED ON THE GAME once you see it live ! it's the best game in the world!

[eliaslaing12]

im black and i go to like 10 games a yr

[deefirst]

It always great to see a mixtuer of races sharing the same interest in sports activity! LONG OVERDUE!

[schn0x]

i love interracial porn.

[m22k3yt]

lol...4:30

[coryboy619]

Thrashnburn30 you are a fucking cunt . there is no fucking need to talk like that fuck.

[darkwraith07]

shut up bitch now it got u ur talking shit i new it rasist.

[edgecution234]

fucking idiot

[Wehategod]

Another Great Player was Alton White Whom Played four years in  WHA with the NY Raiders, LA Sharks, Michagan Stags/Baltimore Blades. He was the first Black hockey player to ever score 20 goals in a season.

[junitwannabe]

i dont count jarome black. hes just a colored white guy

[Wehategod]

Another Black hockey Player was Alton White whom played in the WHA for LA Sharks/New York Raiders.

[piratenmedmask]

fuck black hockey players, they just ruin a sport for honest white people

[Zaosin1337]

youre a fuckin racist piece of shit... its like saving steve nash shouldnt play basketball...

[piratenmedmask]

I dont play basketball because there is 2 many niggers in that fag sport. The niggers have ruined bb, and they are about 2 ruin hockey 2, I think it´s sad cause I love hockey

[ian2theknight]

sumbodys intimidated

[iknobitchsuckmydick]

@pats4lifebb haha thats funny.

ps im black but my dick is white.

[0bbyzz]

fuck u man u guys suck at basketball u dont see us judging u so shut the fuck up aight, our turn to have fun bitches!

[piratenmedmask]

I dont play BB you nigger retard, just stay out off hockey and I will never play BB or climb trees or whatever you niggerscum does

[drumster761]

guess what faggot,im black and i am i fucking beast in hockey so it looks like ur so called sport is going fucking BYE-BYE CUNT.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA­HAHA

[piratenmedmask]

fucking nigger, stop playing ice hockey it's a white sport!

[ballpark4]

you are intimidated this is why you resort to childish name calling. You are in a college with all kinds of people and yet you dont like seeing *culture* in hockey because you want to be the best and you see the thing you fear the most succeeding more then you and you get mad. No need for name calling instead practice harder and you will get what you seek cheers. What School do you play for in Ohio so I can watch you? I need your jersey number also thanks..

[torich21]

@piratenmedmask they said that to football and basketball, now look what happen bitch not only black other races you ass.

[2nuggs1]

lol are you upset cause these brothers have skill...and you cant skate???

[piratenmedmask]

I moved from europe 2 america, after I went to practice twice I played Center on first line on the varsity team, I know how to skate you nigger retard!

[2nuggs1]

haha wow congrats you played varsity lol....im not impressed...what state you play in??....ive played with, and against kids that are in the NHL now....and im white, but nice try

[piratenmedmask]

I forgot to tell you that I'm a freshman, I play hockey in Ohio

[2nuggs1]

lol ohio haha i didnt evewn know they played hockey in ohio....that doesnt count because everyone sucks ass in ohio....if you want a challenge move to minnesota...youll prob be 4th line on the bantam B2 team...if your lucky

[piratenmedmask]

Columbus blue jackets are from´Ohio you stupid pussy

[2nuggs1]

wow dude your retarted....not one player that plays for the blujackets played highschool in ohio

[gn8771]

@2nuggs1 chill out dude. theres no need to freak out. ya, youre right he probably sucks, but don't waste your energy on it

[0bbyzz]

bitch whiite kid stfu yo ur embarrassing ur self lawl

[mrios328]

pretty much all of these black guys in the nhl are 1st generation canadians/americans from carribean and african countries. i want to see descendants of people who were in the civil rights movement.

[nddavi58]

this is so fuckin awesome to see black players out there fighting to make a difference and lead by example. i read somewhere that the nhl is starting to build ice rinks in the inner cities to get young bloods out there to play. so cool!!

[DJBlack909]

I Would Luv 4 dat To happen

[wreck2]

Ok, this is obviously doctored, they don't make ape skates. :P

[Ghelriel]

Willie O"ree = One bad ass mother fucker, i'm sad to say im the olny black hockey fan i know

[Twan277]

hey im black and me and my brother love hockey

[oehieze]

me too! :)

[olivertwist420]

I started Varsity as a freshman. It's a tough sport but I love it.

[PureLtFan]

and yet u r watching racist hockey vids

[ccsdsucks]

an animal playing hockey! brilliant!

[cjty]

fuck you cracker

[tehSnid]

so your mom plays hockey?

[Oubound898]

Black hockey player are cool

[paxstereo]

God Bless Mr. O'ree!!!

[raissa4ever4]

They had the n word i this video

[ironshell90]

like the only 2 sports that barely have diversity are hockey and golf...damn can't wait til someday there will be an all black line up in hockey :)

[piratenmedmask]

when that happens, hocke will be dead

[Gearz86]

Good. Hockey blows.

[IKKIsama14]

U mad huh racist cunt ?

[DokkenCanes11]

I can't wait to see O'Ree this month dropping the puck. It will be a moment I will remember forever.

[marcosbrazilian]

i do faggot!

[chaingang90]

Jarom Iginla, my fave player

[HockeyDarkness22]

Jarome Iginla is my top favorite player to, i also like Ray Emery, Fred Brathwaite, Mike Grier, P.K. subban, Evander Kane looks promising to, and i like Georges Laraque to

[oehieze]

evander is gonna be the BOMB!

[rosswick12]

genetically , some blacks would do well in hockey, but stickhandling and finesse is all russians..

minnesota = best hockey state by far

[marvelandgroup]

jarome iginla and willie o'ree. 2 class acts.

[nationtrotters30]

i go to school with his grandson

[pooper1305]

lol, the everybody hates chris thing was funny =P

[smokingpotatoes]

hes visually impaired like myself

[pup101]

na man this is white ppls sport if more brothas go in then theyll hav few white ppl cuz white ppl juss suk at sports no offense.

[vintertor]

Dude you have a twisted vision about sports, and maybe white ppl in general?

[pup101]

no but i bet in games that there are black ppl only a few white ppl can really keep up

[daudyy]

dont be rediculous man

[guterbol]

we need more black hockey players

[daudyy]

trust me im black love hockey BUT the problem is stereotypes man its so annoying living in canada its easier but the folks in the states forget it. i played hockey once in my high school ball hockey league but u would be surprised how much racial comments people gave me (i.e go play b-ball brotha, wut is this black kid playing hockey for ....)trust me if this changed hockey would have more black ppl it hurts me to my idol is iginla but i live in vancouver where they hate him hahaha

[Allistertha53]

@guterbol I agree!!! Anything could be possible after America elect its first black president.

[SilverWing9999]

at the end of the interview you can hear Fallen Leaves by Billy Talent start playing

[lpmetsdevils]

The TV Production crew always messes players up. (Ex: The Versus crew was talking to DiPietro in the All-Star Game and he allowed the first goal in 12 secs.)

[grandmasterbatorD]

I hate the flames, but you have to hand it to Iggy. Classy, tough, a true leader, and arguably the second best goal scorer in the NHL.

[polinikz]

Diversity program? lol Please. So, I guess this means that we're going to have the same thing in the NBA so there will be more White players right?

[tonoukno]

your obviously not an nba fan cause if you were you would realize their are many great white players. they may not be american, but there are lots. you dumb racist fuck (thats for calling laraque an overrated nig)

GO RAPTORS

[oehieze]

you realise the difference is that blacks were NOT allowed to play in BOTH leagues? The NBA at one time was pretty much all white... then again its more fun to type LOL and keep your brain very tiny

[steeda3]

There's still tons of racism in the NHL...Black players face it on all levels. Look at what the canucks did to anson carter a few years ago. How in the hell do you not sign a player who scored the most goals on your team? How do you not sign a guy who had the best chemistry on your team with your two star players (Sedins)? Why did the canucks instead waste 3.5 million a season on a bum like Willie Mitchell? Simple.....Carter was to black for the uniform and to good for the league.

[polinikz]

Stop making excuses.  Carter is terrible in the neutral zone, he turns the puck over like theres no tomorrow. He sucks, thats why didn't last on the Rangers either. And don't tell me that the Rangers are a racist organization, they play in the middle of Manhattan...the most liberal city in the country. Stop talking out of your ass, you're embarrassing yourself.

[randywyatt2000]

dont get mistaken for the puck

[Suitelifedude23]

Iginla is the best player in the n.h.l

[kenyam101]

"no.... thats your fault"...haha... Iginla must be the classiest player in the league

[inklinkinklink]

One of the most classiest .. I definitely agree.

[Maxie1111]

Did Monteral honor him? I know that they had a moment of silence of Don Wittman, another great person who died recently, but they should have to honor O'Ree in any game sometime soon. Congrats O'Ree!

[inklinkinklink]

I'm not sure, but they did honour him in Boston.

[Maxie1111]

They should, it was where he broke the color barrier.

[daudyy]

they did i no his one of my idols im black