Mike Marson, who played for the Washington Capitals during their 1974-75 expansion season, still remembers sitting in the classroom that day in 1967 along with his childhood friend and future New ...

Mike Marson doesn't remember exactly how he heard about it.. Marson was at his family's Scarborough, Ontario, home when the expansion Washington Capitals selected him in the second round (No. 19 ...

If you said “Mike Marson,” without a Google search, take a bow. February is Black History Month, and while O’Ree, a longtime hired ambassador for the NHL, is rightly being celebrated and ...

From 1958 when Willie O'Ree made his NHL debut, Mike Marson became just the second Black man to play in the NHL with the Washington Capitals in 1974.

Mike Marson says he's never really seen people in terms of colour — but over his hockey career, many definitely saw him that way. Marson was usually the only black player on the ice.

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