List of black NHL players explained

This is a list of black National Hockey League players.

List

Players with at least one game of NHL experience:

Names in italics have won the Stanley Cup.
Bold: organization by which player is currently playing

Yet to have played an NHL game for his respective team

Black NHL players
NameBirthplacePosSeasonsTeams PlayedEthnicityRef
RW 2011–2013 [1]
RW 2013–present [2]
RW 2015–present Bi-racial
LW 1992–1994 [3]
RW 2016–present
G 2007–2008 Jamaican-Chinese[4] [5]
D 2006–2011 Barbadian[6] [7]
LW 2014–present Bi-racial, Martiniquais[8] [9]
LW 2008–2014 Bi-racial, his mother is half-black[10] [11] [12]
D 1999–2014 Haitian-French[13] [14]
D 2017–present Bi-racial [15]
LW 1993–2010 African-French[16] [17]
G 1993–2004 [18]
RW 2011–2019 Bi-racial [19] [20]
D 1996–2006 [21]
C 2021–present Bi-racial, Jamaican[22]
D 2005–2019 African-Norwegian-Swedish[23] [24]
RW 1996–2007 [25]
D 2021–present Bi-racial[26] [27] [28]
G 2005–2006 Bi-racial [29]
RW 1996–1997 [30]
C 1991–1994 [31]
D 2003–2020 [32]
/ LW 2006–2011 Bi-racial, Jamaican[33] [34]
C 2008–2012
D 1995–2004 [35]
LW 2014–present Haitian[36] [37]
LW 2007–2011 [38]
G 2002–2015 Bi-racial [39]
RW 2012–2018 Bi-racial [40]
LW/D 1987–1989 [41] Bi-racial [42]
D 2009–2014 [43]
D 2006–2017 Bi-racial, Jamaican[44] [45]
G 1981–2000 Bi-racial, Cree[46]
G 1994–2001 ,[47]
G 1998–1999 [48] [49]
G 2015–present
LW 2017–2019 Bi-racial, Jamaican
RW 1983–1995 Bi-racial, Afro-Canadian [50]
D 1998–2004 [51]
G 2022–present Bi-racial
LW 2017–present Bi-racial
RW 1996–2011 [52]
D 2021–present Bi-racial, his father is half-black [53]
RW 2016–present
RW 1995–2017 Bi-racial, Nigerian[54] [55]
LW 2021–present
LW 1981–1987 [56]
D 1988–1989 Bi-racial, Jamaican[57] [58]
RW 1983–1984 [59] [60]
RW 2013–2014 [61]
RW 2023–present Bi-racial
D 2018–present Bi-racial
D 2013–present Bi-racial
RW 2018–present [62]
D 2020–present
C 2021–present Bi-racial [63]
D 2008–2013 Bi-racial [64]
LW 2009–present Bi-racial [65]
RW 2019–present Bi-racial
D 2015–present Swedish-Eritrean [66]
C 1993–1999 [67] [68]
RW 1997–2010 [69]
RW 1983–1984 Afro-Canadian[70] [71]
LW 1974–1980 [72]
RW 1994–1997 Afro-Canadian[73] [74]
C 2003–2011 African American[75] [76]
RW 1996–2013 Bi-racial, Barbadian[77] [78]
LW 2008–2012 Trinidadian[79] [80]
RW 1993–2004 Black-Mi'kmaq[81] [82]
LW 1988–1992 Bi-racial [83]
LW 1978–1991 [84]
LW 2002–2003 [85] [86]
D 2020–present Bi-racial
D 1996–2000 [87]
RW 1979–1990 [88]
D 2014–present [89]
D 2006–2018 Bi-racial, Kenyan[90] [91]
RW 2007–present Bi-racial, Nigerian[92]
W 1957–1961 Afro-Canadian [93]
D 2007–2013 Bi-racial [94]
D 2021–present
LW 2021–present Bi-racial, Swedish-Afro-French
RW 2010–present Bi-racial [95]
G 1986–1994 [96] [97]
RW 1974–1980 Afro-Canadian [98]
C 2003–2006 [99]
D 2000–2015 Afro-Brazilian-Ukrainian[100] [101]
LW 1979–1981 [102] [103]
C 1990–1994 Jamaican[104] [105]
RW 2008–2023 [106] [107]
RW 2011–2019 [108]
C 2016–present [109]
RW 2019–present
RW 2023–present Bi-racial
RW 2005–2012 [110]
RW 2008–2018 [111]
D 2023–present Bi-racial
G 2014–present Jamaican-Montserratian [112]
D 2009–2022 Jamaican-Montserratian [113]
LW 2019–present Bi-racial
C 2023–present
RW 1989–1994 [114]
RW 1987–1994 [115]
LW 2021–present Bi-racial[116] [117]
RW 2006–2018 Barbadian[118] [119]
G 1997–2009 [120]
LW 1997–2004 [121]

Number of black NHL players listed by NHL teams

Fifteen
Fourteen
Thirteen
Eleven
Ten
Nine
Eight
Seven
Five
Four
One

1 Previous NHL team with the same name

2 Changed its franchise name from the Phoenix Coyotes

See also

External links

Notes and References

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  47. Web site: NHL Profile: Joaquin Gage . National Hockey League . 16 March 2016.
  48. Harris, Breaking the Ice, 145.
  49. Web site: NHL Profile: Tyrone Garner . National Hockey League . 16 March 2016.
  50. Web site: NHL Profile: Dirk Graham . National Hockey League . 16 March 2016.
  51. Web site: NHL Profile: Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre . National Hockey League . 16 March 2016.
  52. Web site: NHL Profile: Michael Grier . National Hockey League . 16 March 2016.
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  65. Web site: NHL Profile: Evander Kane . National Hockey League . 16 March 2016.
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  84. Web site: NHL Profile: Tony McKegney . National Hockey League . 17 March 2016.
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  86. Web site: NHL Profile: Sean McMorrow . National Hockey League . 17 March 2016.
  87. Web site: NHL Profile: Rumun Ndur . National Hockey League . 17 March 2016.
  88. Web site: NHL Profile: Raymond Neufeld . National Hockey League . 17 March 2016.
  89. Web site: NHL Profile: Darnell Nurse . National Hockey League . 17 March 2016.
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  94. Web site: NHL Profile: Theo Peckham . National Hockey League . 21 March 2016.
  95. Web site: NHL Profile: Ryan Reaves . National Hockey League . 21 March 2016.
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  98. Web site: NHL Profile: James Riley . National Hockey League . 21 March 2016.
  99. Web site: NHL Profile: Nathan Robinson . National Hockey League . 21 March 2016.
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  103. Web site: NHL Profile: Bernie Saunders . National Hockey League . 24 March 2016.
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  108. Web site: NHL Profile: Devante Smith-Pelly . National Hockey League . 24 March 2016.
  109. Web site: How Red Wings' Givani Smith used father's lessons to battle racism on road to NHL .
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  111. Web site: NHL Profile: Chris Stewart . National Hockey League . 24 March 2016.
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  120. Web site: NHL Profile: Kevin Weekes . National Hockey League . 24 March 2016.
  121. Web site: NHL Profile: Peter Worrell . National Hockey League . 24 March 2016.