The Colorado Avalanche have not spoken out against racism in hockey. But I’m going to play polyanna for a moment and dream that they would.
Recently, a former NHL/AHL player with very tenuous ties to the Avalanche released a moving story in the Players’ Tribune. Unfortunately, it was not the good kind of moving. It was Akim Aliu, and he released a story about the racism he had to endure from the time he was 16 — I’m guessing he had to endure it before that time, too. He is of Nigerian descent.
He has two tenuous ties to the Avalanche — not that it matters with a subject as important as this.