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Iginla headlines 2020 Hall class as 4th Black player elected

by AP Hockey Writer
| June 24, 2020 2:03 PM

Like most kids growing up in Edmonton, Jarome Iginla admired Oilers legends Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier. As a young Black hockey player, he paid particular attention when he saw someone in the NHL who looked like him in Grant Fuhr.

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