How Willie O’Ree and Kyle Dubas’ grandfather helped shape a mission to build an inclusive future for hockey

One of the greatest agents for diversity and inclusion in hockey has quietly slipped into Toronto for this weekend’s Carnegie Initiative Summit.

Inclusion, though, is something more than a cause to be promoted at events for McBride, who was the first Black executive in the NHL and commissioner Gary Bettman’s seventh hire in the league’s offices. Inclusion is McBride’s mission in life, and he views hockey, in part, as a “great teacher” for inclusivity.

A father of two who was born in Chicago but grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, McBride is the co-founder of the Carnegie Initiative along with Bernice Carnegie, the daughter of Herb. He is also a relentless entrepreneur who is the CEO of his own start-up company Burst in the mobile video technology space. While the list of credentials is long and impressive, it was the link to Sault Ste. Marie that taught McBride to “stand up on my own two feet” — literally.

“I said, ‘Wait a second, your dad is Mark, and your grandad is Walter?’ He said yes, and I said Walter changed my life. I was a 14-year-old minor bantam kid trying to figure out how to take someone one-on-one coming at me 100 miles an hour. And he was coaching an opposing team in the league I was in … he just saw me working hard and made it a point to find me and help me develop my skill over a three-month period.

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