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·Members of the Blind Hockey League play in the inaugural game at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto on Friday.
Hockey players are pictured here during the first game of the Carnegie Cup Elite Blind Hockey Series at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, on Jan. 20, 2023. A charity called Canadian Blind Hockey, in partnership with the Carnegie Initiative for Inclusion and Acceptance in Hockey, is hosting the series. The initiative, launched a year and a half ago, is aiming to change hockey culture to make it more diverse and inclusive. Games are free to watch.The series is named in honour of the late Herb Carnegie, who became the first Black hockey player to reach the NHL in the late 1950s after facing enormous racism that hampered his career for decades.
Canadian Blind Hockey said the series features hockey players from Canada, the U.S. and Europe. The players have been drafted into two teams to showcase the "fastest, most skilled, and most competitive version" of the sport, the charity said. The two teams will play three games in all. "I've never seen blind hockey until just now. It's amazing," said Burke, who is a member of the Carnegie Initiative's Canadian board of directors and is president of hockey operations with the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins.A player on the bench at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto on Friday.
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