The Willie O’Ree Congressional Gold Medal Act passed ... players of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds,” in his NHL biography. Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York praised O ...

Since 1998, Willie O’Ree has served as the NHL’s diversity ... the documentary also includes childhood tales from his hometown of Fredericton, New Brunswick, the story of his journey to ...

Otherwise, we would have missed out on the wonderful story of Willie O’Ree. O’Ree, like his childhood hero Jackie Robinson, was a pioneer. O’Ree broke the NHL color barrier in 1958.

Willie O'Ree's surname, the four letters that changed ... how seeing no Black men on the ice might have snuffed his childhood ambition, and how instead he was empowered to visualize a sport ...

MONTREAL --Willie O'Ree had seen the Montreal Forum before ... for the Washington Capitals. All of O'Ree's childhood friends in the Canadian Maritimes in the early 1940s were white, and any ...

Willie O'Ree is being inducted into the Hockey Hall ... From his seat, O’Ree is rattling off bullet points of his biography like a one-man Wikipedia page: Left home in Fredericton at 18, turned ...

Willie O’Ree won’t be standing on TD Garden ice ... But Millette is “extraordinary,” David said, as a person. During a troubled childhood in Jacksonville, Fla., Millette moved from house ...

The City of Boston officially declared Jan. 18 as Willie O'Ree Day. Although O'Ree has admitted that he was a childhood fan of the Montreal Canadiens, the historically bitter rivals of the Bruins ...

Before the Kings took their thrones in L.A., the Ducks migrated to Anaheim or Wayne Gretzky touched down in Southern California, Willie O’Ree was one of the region’s first hockey stars ...