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With more and more of the roster comprising of recruits brought in by Donato, the spotlight was finally on the former Frozen Four MVP and NHL veteran. Was he really a good coach, or was he just living off of Mazzoleni’s legacy...
...visual and environmental studies concentrator in Currier House. She hails from Vermont, where the natural environment is similar to Massachusetts, except that the squirrels there don’t eat human babies for breakfast. She hopes her brother, TJ, will make it to the NHL so he can support her art career. Check out her cartoon on Wednesdays...
...that hockey hasn't tried to reverse its luck. Since 1995, the league has spent over $6 million to expand its Diversity Program, which O'Ree, 72, helps direct. When the NHL started its diversity initiative, there were 5 inner-city hockey programs in North America. Now, there are 39. This year, the league has expanded its "Hockey in the Hood" tournament to include more teams. Coleman himself is a product of these efforts. "There are more kids of color playing hockey today than ever before," says O'Ree, though there's no statistical proof to back this claim...
...players on NHL rosters today, only 12 are black - a level that has remained flat over the last decade. "Sport as an institution doesn't just fall out of the sky," says Earl Smith, a Wake Forest University sociologist who wrote about blacks in hockey in his 2007 book Race, Sport and the American Dream. "It has to be embedded in the community, in the society the sport is trying to reach. For the NHL, it's a losing proposition...
...just round up your buddies for a pickup game. Between equipment, travel to rinks, and ice fees, hockey is also prohibitively expensive for many urban families. "How are you going to convince parents to pay $6,000 so their kids can play hockey?" asks Coleman. The NHL could invest more money to subsidize these costs for potential players, but with so few African-American pros in the sport today, who could these kids emulate? Why would they even bother with hockey, when they see so many African-Americans succeeding in basketball, football, and other sports...