“To the average spectator, the scant numbers of black men in the NHL seems to indicate that hockey is historically a sport dominated by white men. But that’s far from the truth. In 1895, pre-NHL, the Coloured Hockey League (CHL) was founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia and consisted of over a dozen teams, and 400 black players mostly from the Maritimes.
After The Second World War in the late 1940s, an all-black men’s hockey team was formed in Montreal, made up of veterans.”