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Before Willie O’Ree was declared the first Black man to break into the NHL with the Boston Bruins in 1958, historians George and Darril Fosty say there was James “Cut” Brown, George Tolliver and Henry Sylvester Williams. Almost 30 years before Bernard “Boom Boom” Geoffrion—the man the National Hockey League credits as the inventor of the slap shot—was born, the Fostys believe Eddie Martin, a former baseball-turned-hockey-player, might have been the first player to unleash the classic power move.

In their 2004 book, Black Ice, the Fosty brothers claim that these ancestors of runaway slaves, and participants of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, have all but been forgotten by mainstream hockey.

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