That racist sociopath eventually ended up skating for the Colorado Avalanche, but he left in disgrace. The older player even stick-butted him in practice and knocked out seven of his teeth. According to Aliu’s article, he suffered abuse at the hands of a “racist sociopath” when he was just a 16-year-old OHL rookie. The other tenuous tie is through a player. Of all the unmitigated gall, dressing in blackface in the 21st century like it’s the south in 1962. The ruse was so the Eagles equipment manager, Tony Deynzer, could dress like Akim Aliu for Halloween - complete with blackface. The team invited Aliu to the team Halloween party but requested that he come late. Eventually they became our ECHL team and now our AHL team.
At the time, the Eagles were still in the ECHL, and they were affiliated with the Winnipeg Jets.
The first tie is when Aliu was playing for the Colorado Eagles in 2011. Neither of them is a particularly good tie, unfortunately. He has two tenuous ties to the Avalanche - not that it matters with a subject as important as this. It was Akim Aliu, and he released a story about the racism he had to endure from the time he was 16 - I’m guessing he had to endure it before that time, too. Unfortunately, it was not the good kind of moving. Recently, a former NHL/AHL player with very tenuous ties to the Avalanche released a moving story in the Players’ Tribune.
But I’m going to play polyanna for a moment and dream that they would. The Colorado Avalanche have not spoken out against racism in hockey. The Colorado Avalanche should be in a good position to speak out against racism in hockey. By Nadia Archuleta 2 years ago Follow Tweet
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