TORONTO --Kevin Weekes was 5 years old when Mike Marson, a native of Scarborough, Ontario, retired from the NHL in 1980.As a result, he never got to see the second Black player in NHL history take ...

Hear from Mike Marson and Bill Riley, the first Black teammates in the NHL, on pioneering the path for growth in our game.

"He was phenomenally fast," Paul Mulvey, who met Marson at his Capitals training camp in 1978-81, said. "I think it would be a good battle of speed races here for Mike and Jason [Chimera]." ...