Herb Carnegie never forgot the exhilaration the day he first skated, in his older brother’s oversized blades.
Had it been 1977, not 1927, Carnegie might have indeed followed that path so many hockey-mad kids pursued. But being Black in what was then an overwhelmingly Caucasian Canada, he was discouraged from playing the national game, let alone its highest level, no matter how good he could become.Article content
Like his White friends, young Herb and brother Ossie listened to Foster Hewitt’s broadcasts of the Leafs in the early 1930s, Herb picturing himself as Joe Primeau, the left shooting centre of Toronto’s Kid Line. But as he started in minor hockey, his own father, who’d come from Jamaica in 1912, dismissed the idea the NHL would ever admit Black players, a source of family friction at the time.
Carnegie heard the N-word many times growing up and had learned to answer with his strong play. But to have the man in charge of his hometown team shut the door left him bitter for years.Article contenttap here to see other videos from our teamWhile Smythe wasn’t the only exec alone in his backward thinking, Carnegie did get one more NHL sniff.
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