The Bruins confirmed and introduced nine new sweater numbers for players both new and old this week, including a jersey ...

The Bruins confirmed and introduced nine new sweater numbers for players both new and old this week, including a jersey ...

The Jamaican men’s national ice-hockey team is competing in Montreal this weekend. To Canadian players of Jamaican descent, ...

Diversity in ice hockey isn't new, but it's not widely recognized like in the NFL, NBA, and even among black talent in golf ...

EDMONTON, AB — Boston Bruins legend Willie O'Ree, the National Hockey League's first Black player, will be honored on a new stamp issued later this month by Canada Post. O'Ree broke the NHL's ...

NHL honors league’s first Black player, and the Boston Bruins retire his jersey Willie O’Ree broke the barrier as the first Black hockey player in the National Hockey League in 1958, and he ...

Willie O'Ree, who has lived 3,500 miles in southern California for nearly six decades, is a big Boston Bruins fan.

The Boston Bruins have retired jersey number 22 in honor of Willie O’Ree, the first Black player to compete in the National Hockey League. “I never expected, when I started playing hockey ...

The retirement of Willie O'Ree's Bruins jersey comes on the 64th anniversary of his historic NHL debut in a Boston uniform.

Willie O’Ree played 45 games for the Boston Bruins, becoming the NHL’s first black player in 1958. (Editor’s note: Willie O’Ree had his number retired last night by the Bruins.

Willie O'Ree, the first Black player to appear in an NHL game, finally had his No. 22 retired by the Bruins on Tuesday night, before Boston lost to the Carolina Hurricanes 7-1 at TD Garden.