Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story

Sep 16, 1998

0h 26m

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Overview

Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story is a documentary on the triumphal life story of the first Black player in the National Hockey League. Like Jackie Robinson in professional baseball, O'Ree faced many obstacles to achieving his dream; but unlike Robinson, his achievement would go unnoticed for forty years.

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Willie O'Ree

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John Bucyk

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Ferny Flaman

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Doug Mohns

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Don McKenney

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Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story

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