Despite the NHL’s long history, the league finally began to embrace its black history back in February of 2019 and the Hockey Hall of Fame took an absurd amount of time to put Willie O’Ree, the NHL’s first player of color in 1958, into its Hall of Fame. Those are two big examples of how hockey has a problem acknowledging black hockey players and the racist incidents that were revealed in 2019 show that hockey, a Canadian sport, has similar racism problems as America.