>the NHL marketers salivating. If he makes it with the St. Louis Blues,
>he'll be the first African-American to play in the NHL. (That's what the
>piece said, and I haven't yet been able to come up with any others...Graeme
>Townsend was born in Jamaica if I remember correctly. Willy O'Rhee was the
>first black man to play in the NHL, a defenseman with the Bruins in the
>50s. I guess he wasn't American). Grier's NHL idol is not Grant Fuhr, but
>Eric Lindros, and he tries to pattern his play after Lindros.
 
Willie O'Ree was from Fredericton, New Brunswick I think. Claude Vilgrain was
born in Haiti and raised in Quebec, I believe. Grant Fuhr and Fred
Brathwaite are both Canadian, as is Tony McKegney, I guess.
 
I would be very worried if Mike Grier tried to pattern his play after Grant
Fuhr. :-)
 
ObCollegeHockey: Hopefully I'll be able to get the Brown-Clarkson game
on the radio tonight. I'm heading down sort of towards Clarkson for a
Jr. B playoff game.
 
See you later,
John
 
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