#willie o'ree

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Let's celebrate a real hockey legend today

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bergy with his SIXTH selke???

ullmark with the vezina! (of course!)

tanger with the bill masterton 💖

and bonus p.o. joseph hanging out with willie o’ree! 

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Happy Birthday!

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Celebrating Black History Month: Willie O’Ree

Who is Willie O’Ree? Think Hockey! Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame!

Born October 15th, 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He played for the Boston Bruins, winger. It was January 18th, 1958 when Willie O’Ree stepped onto the ice and started his professional career in the sport, he played from 1958 to 1979. 

Willie O’Ree was the first Black hockey player, he was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame in 1984. On June 26, 2018, it was announced that O'Ree would be inducted as a builder into the Hockey Hall of Fame later that year. In 1998, the National Hockey League approached him to be the director of youth development for its diversity task force. 1998 Willie received the Oder of Canada, the highest civilian aware for a Canadian citizen. 

O'Ree was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame in 1984. In 1998, O'Ree was working at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, California when the National Hockey League approached him to be the director of youth development for its diversity task force. 2018 he was inducted as a builder into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

People don’t think about it, but the importance of seeing someone who is your colour, race, sex, disability or simply a reflection of yourself in a position that you that you desire as a child, helps solidifies the possibilities for that child.

For most kids playing professional hockey is a dream, as it was for Willie O’Ree.

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TF141 as iconic hockey players. I'll be taking no further questions about this your honour.

Price = Lanny McDonald, a born leader, tough as nails and knows how to win when the chips are down. Impressive facial hair and determination.

Ghost = Ken Dryden, stoic, tall, a looming presence no matter where you are on the ice. Fearless and formidable in the face of projectiles. Face mask game is on point.

Soap = Tie Domi, a short shit disturber extraordinaire with a a flair for the dramatic. Knows how to make shit happen and is forceful in his execution. Someone you hate to play against.

Gaz = Willie O'Ree, a true legend who always cleans up nicely and gives the best of himself no matter the circumstance. Patient and a master of putting himself in the right place at the right time.

If you are going to google any of these men, start with Willie because his story is amazing.

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Congratulations to Saroya Tinker for being named as a finalist for the 2023 Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award!

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Events 1.18 (before 1970)

474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. 1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York. 1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. 1586 – The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami. 1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama. 1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King in Prussia in Königsberg. 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". 1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay. 1806 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British. 1866 – Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia. 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title. 1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith. 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. 1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. 1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. 1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. 1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. 1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa. 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. 1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army. 1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. 1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years. 1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment. 1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.

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Boston Pride poster for their Black History Month game, designed by Jo Dabney and honouring players Blake Bolden and Willie O'Ree

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Happy 89th Birthday to one of the greatest hockey players of all time Willie O'Ree

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∀ Autographed/Signed Willie O'Ree "HOF 2018" Boston Black Hockey Jersey JSA COA http://blog.collectingall.com/TBxBGQ 👉 shrsl.com/4fuj5 👈

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏿

In this series, we are honoring 29 remarkable athletes who shaped the professional sports world, broke barriers and left an indelible mark on the culture.

Willie O'Ree: The first Black player in the #NHL. 🏒

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THURSDAY 18

“I did not realize I had made history until I read it in the paper the next day.”

- Willie O'Ree

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Willie Eldon O'Ree CM ONB (born October 15, 1935) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, best known for being the first Black player in the National Hockey League (NHL). O'Ree played as a winger for the Boston Bruins. O'Ree is referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of ice hockey" for breaking the black colour barrier in the National Hockey League, and has stated publicly that he had met Jackie Robinson when he was younger. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November 2018. Also in 2018, the NHL instituted the annual Willie O’Ree Community Hero Award in his honour, to "recognise the individual who has worked to make a positive impact on his community, culture or society to make people better through hockey."   “I stepped onto the ice and I had butterflies in my stomach. The Canadiens were the best team in the league at that time. They were winning Cup after Cup. Maurice “Rocket” Richard, Jacques Plante, Bernie Geoffrion, Doug Harvey … these were superstars of the highest order. The Rocket, in particular, was one of my idols growing up. To share the ice with these guys, and play against them in an NHL game, was surreal. Even more surreal: We won, 3-0. Now, I wasn’t just an NHL player. I was a winner, too.”   #Willie Oree #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #HansPoppeArt #Artist #Toronto #Canada  #Hockey #DigitalArt #Portraiture #NHL (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cox5LWCv7FG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Willie

Willie 2019 Documentary / Sport Synopsis Documentary about Willie O'Ree who was the first black hockey player who played in National Hockey League for Boston Bruins in 1957-58 and Read the full article

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9 Black Athletes Who Integrated Professional Sports - HISTORY

Willie O'Ree, number 25 of the Boston Bruins, in action during game against the New York Rangers, c. 1960.

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