Graeme Townshend learned early not to let others crush his dreams. Townshend, the first Black player to wear an Islanders uniform, fell in love with hockey when he was 8 years old and playing with ...

Hockey has always been a means to an end for Graeme Townshend. Over the course of his career as a player, coach, mentor, spectator and advocate for the sport, the former NHLer and New York Islander ...

TROY, N.Y. — Three distinguished alumni of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men’s hockey program were officially inducted into the New York State Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the Class of ...

Graeme Townshend clutched the old trading card in his small fingers, tracing the outline of his idol again and again. He was only 9 years old then. But he saw his future in Willie O'Ree's eyes. "I was ...