Inspired by hockey’s racial reckoning and last year’s social justice “awakening,” Rane Carnegie is carrying on his family’s legacy and working to get his trailblazing grandfather into the Hockey Hall of Fame
NOTE: This story was first published in February 2021. It has been updated with current information.
Rane Carnegie’s trailblazing grandfather is finally a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Herb Carnegie, the founder of Canada’s first hockey school and an Order of Canada appointee, was posthumously inducted into the Hall last November as a builder, joining Roberto Luongo, Daniel Alfredsson, Henrik and Daniel Sedin, and Riikka Sallinen as part of the Class of 2023.
He joined Grant Fuhr, Willie O’Ree, Angela James and Jarome Iginla as the only Black members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Honoured to welcome Herb Carnegie, posthumously, to the Hockey Hall of Fame!
Herb’s children Bernice and Dale are presented with his Honoured Member plaque by Angela James #HHOF10.@CarnegieInit | #HHOF2022 | #HHOF | 📸 Dave Sandford/HHOF pic.twitter.com/BRQx7wrCFz
— Hockey Hall of Fame (@HockeyHallFame) November 15, 2022
“He deserved it,” says Rane. “My grandfather was a very special person, and everyone knew it.”
The induction comes after a renewed effort by the family to see Herb receive hockey’s highest honour. In 2020, Rane launched a petition, which garnered nearly 11,000 signatures, asking the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee and the NHL to induct his grandfather, who passed away in 2012.
“The amount of people that came together to advocate and promote and share in this journey along way – because it wasn’t just this past year, it’s been a long time coming, and to see the joy and outpouring of love when it happened, it was truly amazing,” says Rane.
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George Floyd.
Breonna Taylor.
Ahmaud Arbery.
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, these names became rallying calls across North America during the summer of 2020 as the continent confronted centuries of systemic racism.
For Rane Carnegie, so much of the past year has been a call to action.
“It was traumatizing,” the 36-year-old former junior hockey star says.
“I have a Black son and a Black daughter. It impacted my family in a way that I can’t even begin to describe.”
The social justice movement that followed the deaths last year of Black men…
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