Black defencemen, centremen and coaches in NHL history

dafoomie

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Tony McKegney was a C/LW, though he mostly played LW in the NHL. Anson Carter came up as a center, but was moved to the wing by I believe Washington.

As for defensemen, J.L. Grand Pierre, Sean Brown, Trevor Daley, Bryce Salvador, Jason Doig.
 

Hoser

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And, off the top of my head, Jean-Luc Grand Pierre plays defence.
 

Hoser

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dafoomie said:
Tony McKegney was a C/LW, though he mostly played LW in the NHL. Anson Carter came up as a center, but was moved to the wing by I believe Washington.

Manny Malhotra too, I think.
 

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Chooch, I am not sure of your point.

But if your point is what I think it is, you deserve to get banned for it.
 

dafoomie

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Hoser said:
Sean Brown is black?
Surprisingly enough, yes. I think he's only half, but apparently its enough to qualify.

Dirk Graham is I think half black, or at least "of African descent". He was a center, and was also the head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks.
 

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He's not black... he's half Indian (as in India)...

Youre right. Very few Indians in the NHL (Bawa?) or CFL.

My point is why is it so low historicly?
 

Hoser

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... in the States. I would think black Canadians are substantially no less interested in hockey than any other ethnicity.

And when you start doing the math it makes sense that there are only a handful of black NHL players historically. If you believe this source: www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html, blacks made up only 0.02% of Canadians in 1971. Roughly 22,000,000 Canadians means roughly 4400 blacks. Let's say there were roughly 300 NHL players at the time, 95% of them Canadian, so that leaves 285 Canadians, or roughly 1 NHL player out of 77,200 Canadians.

Fast forward to today: 33,000,000 Canadians, 2% (~660,000) of them black. Roughly 400 Canadian NHLers, good for 1 in 82,500 Canadians. Proportionally, that's 8 blacks in the NHL.
 

Matsi

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Hoser said:
Grant Fuhr is the Coyotes' goaltending coach.


He's also part Native American, according to nativehockey.com


isn't Boston's Nathan Robinson a center? And prospects Yared Hagos and Anthony Stewart? As for blueliners, Dustin Byfuglien and Shawn Belle (prospect), John Oduya (prospect) Sean McMorrow (prospect) and Francis Bouillon who's obviously of mixed blood. :)
 
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