Seeing Auston Matthews and Jack Eichel in a Team USA jersey at next month’s Winter Olympics would have been, like, really fun.
But the NHL’s decision to prohibit its players from participating at the PyeongChang Games opened the door for at least one noteworthy development.
Jordan Greenway, a junior forward at Boston University, became the first African-American named to the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team when the final roster was announced last week.
Greenway is set to break a 98-year-old color barrier that lasted 23 Olympic cycles.
“It’s special. There’s not a ton of African-Americans who play this game.