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Nice to see PM Trudeau sending his congratulations . Where was our guy?
Happy wife, happy life right?He is a Flyers fan
Willie did crack a barrier in 1958 BUT he was also Canadian.
The NHL of that era wanted nothing to do with US born players. The Bruins has ONE US born player Charle Burns and in 1959 he was the only one in the entire NHL and he was US born by accident as his Mom wound up in a Detroit hospital instead of Windsor.
Walter Brown ran the Bruins back then and he was truly color blind. The Bruins wound up with a black player BEFORE the Red Sox - that fact is staggering.
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Willie did crack a barrier in 1958 BUT he was also Canadian.
The NHL of that era wanted nothing to do with US born players. The Bruins has ONE US born player Charle Burns and in 1959 he was the only one in the entire NHL and he was US born by accident as his Mom wound up in a Detroit hospital instead of Windsor.
Walter Brown ran the Bruins back then and he was truly color blind. The Bruins wound up with a black player BEFORE the Red Sox - that fact is staggering.
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Congrats Willie!
Love it! Thank You to Senator StabenowThi
This bill was introduced by Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow...
....it's called BRUINS....