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Willie Eldon O'Ree (born October 15, 1935) is a
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former professional
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player, best known for being the first
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player in the
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(NHL). O'Ree played as a winger for the
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. O'Ree is referred to as the "
Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line ...
of ice hockey" for breaking the black colour barrier in the
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, and has stated publicly that he had met Jackie Robinson when he was younger. He was inducted into the
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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."


Playing career

Midway through his second minor-league season with the
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, O'Ree was called up to the
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of the NHL to replace Leo Labine, who was unable to play due to an illness. Two years earlier, O'Ree had been blinded when he was hit in his right eye by an errant puck; which would have precluded him from playing in the NHL if the Bruins had known. However, O'Ree managed to keep it secret, and made his NHL debut with the Bruins on January 18, 1958, against the
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, becoming the first black player in league history. He played two games that year, with centre man
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and right wing
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as his line mates. O'Ree played 43 games for the Bruins during the 1960-61 NHL season. An incident occurred during a game from that season against the
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in
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. O'Ree claims he was called racist names by several of the Blackhawks players. During the game, Eric Nesterenko butt-ended O'Ree, knocking out his two front teeth and breaking his nose. O'Ree responded by hitting Nesterenko over the head with his stick, which O'Ree claims "almost created a riot". O'Ree claims the fans called him racist names and that the Blackhawks players were threatening to kill him, and that he was "lucky to get out of the arena alive". After playing the 43 games for the Bruins during that season, O'Ree was then traded to the Montreal Canadiens. O'Ree claims that the Canadiens were run by racists and that he wasn't invited to try out for the team. O'Ree scored 4 goals and 10 assists in his NHL career, all in 1961. O'Ree noted that racist remarks were much worse in the U.S. cities than in
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and
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, the two Canadian cities hosting NHL teams at the time, and that "Fans would yell, 'Go back to the
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' and 'How come you're not picking
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?' Things like that. It didn't bother me. I just wanted to be a hockey player, and if they couldn't accept that fact, that was their problem, not mine." In the minor leagues, O'Ree won two scoring titles in the
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(WHL) between 1961 and 1974, scoring 30 or more goals 4 times, with a high of 38 in 1964–65 and 1968–69. O'Ree played 50 games for the
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's
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in 1972–73. Most of O'Ree's playing time was with the WHL's Los Angeles Blades and
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. The latter team retired his number, which now hangs from the rafters at
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, formerly known as the
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. O'Ree continued to play in the minors until the age of 43.


Impact on hockey

After O'Ree's stint in the NHL, there were no other black players in the NHL until another Canadian player,
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, was drafted by the
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in 1974. There were 23 black players in the NHL as of the mid-2010s.
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was the first black player to sign an NHL contract, in 1950 with the
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organisation, but never played beyond the minor league level. NHL players are now required to enroll in a preseason diversity training seminar, and racially based verbal abuse is punished through suspensions and fines. Since 1998, O’Ree has been the NHL's Diversity Ambassador, travelling across North America to schools and hockey programs to promote messages of inclusion, dedication, and confidence.


Honors

O'Ree was inducted into the
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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. The NHL/USA Hockey Diversity Task Force is a non-profit program for minority youth that encourages them to learn and play hockey. As of the mid-2000s, O'Ree lives in
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. O'Ree and
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appeared in the ''
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'' episode "Everybody Hates Gretzky" in 2008. In 2008 he was in the nfl halftime show as a pangin. On the afternoon of January 19, 2008, the Bruins and NHL deputy commissioner
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honoured O'Ree at
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in Boston to mark the 50th anniversary of his NHL debut. In addition, The Sports Museum of
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located in the TD Garden, established a special exhibit on O'Ree's career, comprising many items on loan from his personal collection. Those in attendance included a busload of friends from O'Ree's hometown of Fredericton. Two days earlier, the City of Fredericton honoured him by naming a new sports complex on the North side after him. Around the time of the 60th anniversary of O'Ree's contribution to ice hockey in early 2008, he was once again honoured by the Bruins and the NHL, with a new street hockey rink in Boston named in his honour, one of many accolades with which the Bruins and NHL legend are involved. On January 27, 2008, the NHL also honoured O'Ree during the 56th National Hockey League All-Star Game in
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. On February 5, 2008,
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did a special on him in honour of
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. On October 29, 2008,
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presented O'Ree with an Award for Outstanding Commitment to Diversity and Cross Cultural Understanding. In 2008, O'Ree was also inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the Breitbard Hall of Fame honouring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing surface. The same year, O'Ree received the
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, the highest civilian award for a Canadian citizen. He was honoured as a pioneer of hockey and dedicated youth mentor in Canada along with the U.S. On June 28, 2011,
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at
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in Boston honoured O'Ree with the Hockey Legacy Award at the 10th Annual "The Tradition." Other honourees that evening included
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,
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, and
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. The
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hosted a Willie O'Ree skills weekend in March 2012. His jersey was retired by the San Diego Gulls on October 16, 2015. As the
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were about to start, the
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' Barbadian Canadian star right winger Joel Ward was preparing to play against the
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, and told ESPN that O'Ree was one of his inspirations to play pro hockey, and should have his player number 22 retired by the NHL league-wide, just as
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, the first player of color in
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has been honoured. Ward himself honoured Robinson's legacy through his last season in NHL play by wearing jersey number 42 in NHL play; Robinson's own player number 42 has been retired league-wide in pro baseball. On November 3, 2017, O'Ree was honoured with a banner by the
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during a pregame ceremony to commemorate his time with the
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. A more personal honour for O'Ree was arranged by John Grzelcyk, father of current Bruins defenseman
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. A long-time member of the
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and
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"bull-gang" team of arena personnel that assists with "changeovers" for different events at each facility, the senior Grzelcyk had saved an original number 22 Bruins uniform jersey worn by O'Ree from the
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, when O'Ree last played in the NHL as a Bruin. Both Grzelcyks personally presented the jersey to O'Ree, to honour him for his time with the Bruins and the NHL. At about the same time as O'Ree received his vintage Bruins game-sweater, it became known that
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, a then-
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rookie of bi-racial ethnicity, had been taught by his Black Canadian father about O'Ree's importance in NHL history, and selected 22 as his number with the Capitals to honour O'Ree's achievement. On June 26, 2018, it was announced that O'Ree would be inducted as a builder into the
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later that year. Almost ten months after receiving his original Bruins sweater from the Grzelcyks, on November 1, 2018, O'Ree attended the ceremonial dedication of a
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rink named in his honour in the Boston neighbourhood of
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, as part of the continuing legacy of O'Ree's time with the Bruins. By early May 2019, following O'Ree's builder honour with the Hockey Hall of Fame the previous year, a bill in the 116th U.S. Congress is authorising the award of the United States
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for O'Ree's achievements "in recognition of his contributions and commitment to hockey, inclusion, and recreational opportunity." O'Ree was named to
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on May 27, 2020, in the Builder category. The formal induction ceremony was postponed to October 3, 2021, due to concerns over
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. On January 12, 2021, the Boston Bruins announced that they would retire O'Ree's number 22 on February 18. However, the jersey retirement ceremony was moved to January 18, 2022, by the NHL. In 2021, as a celebration of
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, all NHL players wore a commemorative helmet decal honouring O'Ree from January 16 to February 28. In 2022, US President Joe Biden signed the Willie O'Ree Congressional Gold Medal act. The bill awarded O'Ree a Congressional Gold Medal, the U.S. Congress' highest honour, for his contributions to "hockey, inclusion and recreational opportunity." O'Ree is the first player in NHL history to receive the honour.


Awards

*WHL Second All-Star Team (1969) *New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame (1984) * Lester Patrick Trophy (2003) *
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(2005) *Willie O'Ree Place (Fredericton arena, dedicated 2008) *
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(2008) * Breitbard Hall of Fame (2008) *Hockey Hall of Fame (2018) *Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (2020–21)


Career statistics


Regular season and playoffs

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Note


See also

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References


External links

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Congressional gold medal to Willie O'Ree 2022.




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Boston Bruins' ''Behind the B'' Episode 508 – Willie O'Ree Receives His #22 Jersey LegendsMember.jsp?mem=b201802&type=Builder&page=bio&list=ByName Willie O'Ree's "Builder" biography page at the Hockey Hall of Fame
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