Stanley Cup champion Nazem Kadri is a role model for thousands of hockey-playing Muslim children in Canada, but things were different in the 1990s when he was getting started in the sport.
Nazem Kadri, left, poses for his first hockey photo in London, Ont., in 1996. He's shown on the right hoisting the Stanley Cup after the Colorado Avalanche won the NHL title in June.
I used to tell my teachers all the time I was going to the NHL. They just told me to keep doing my homework., is believed to be the first Muslim player to win the Cup. He did it with the Colorado Avalanche in June, when the NHL team beat the Tampa Bay Lightning. "I used to tell my teachers all the time I was going to the NHL," he recalled in an interview with CBC News. "They just told me to keep doing my homework."
Kadri, shown as a youngster, is the only son of five children born in London, Ont., to Lebanese parents.
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