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OUR FAMOUS FRIENDS ... WILLIE O'REE

By Chris Sprow

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The way he tells it, Willie O'Ree was so preoccupied with what GM's might think of the fact that he was blind in one eye—his eye was smashed by an errant puck at age 19—he couldn't bother to dwell on the fact that every time he laced up, he was doing something that had never been done. Still, fifty years ago, O'Ree became the first black player to play in the NHL when he stepped onto the ice for Boston. How ahead of his time was he? Well, in the NHL of 1958—ten years a ...

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