Director Hubert Davis on ‘Black Ice’ and the untold Black hockey experience

TORONTO - In the new sports documentary “Black Ice,” viewers learn that in 1906 hockey player Eddie Martin became the first to use a technique known as the slapshot — a back swing of the stick known for its power as it makes contact with the puck.

But Martin, a Black man who played for the Halifax Eureka in what was then known as the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, went largely unrecognized for his innovative method.

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