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Updated May 11th, 2021 at 12:56 IST

Lightning ice all-Black line in loss to Panthers

Lightning ice all-Black line in loss to Panthers

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STORY: Ice Hockey NHL Lightning - Lightning ice all-Black line in loss to Panthers

LENGTH: 00:57

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SOURCE: NHL

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STORY NUMBER: 5275127

DATELINE: 10th May 2021 - Sunrise, Florida, USA.

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SHOTLIST: BBandT Center, Sunrise, Florida, USA. 10th May, 2021.

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1. 00:00 Gemel Smith, Daniel Walcott and Mathieu Joseph together on the bench

Second Period:

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2. 00:08 Juho Lammikko shorthanded goal, 2-0 Florida

3. 00:36 Jan Rutta gets hit by Mason Marchment, Walcott fights Kevin Connauton

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SOURCE: NHL

DURATION: 00:58

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STORYLINE:

The Tampa Bay Lightning started three Black forwards in their regular-season finale against the Florida Panthers on Monday night, a rarity in NHL history - if not an absolute first.

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Daniel Walcott, Mathieu Joseph and Gemel Smith were out together for the opening face-off and didn’t know they would be starting together until just minutes before game time.

“First of all, they’re all in the NHL for a reason,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “They deserve to be here and have worked their tails off. To have them all together, they had a little chemistry. Moving forward in the league, you hope it isn’t a story anymore and will be the norm. It was a pretty cool moment for all those guys.”

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Florida won the game, 4-0. The teams will meet in the first round of the NHL playoffs that start this weekend.

Roughly 3% of NHL players are Black, even though hockey and its teams have increased efforts in recent years to add to diversity within the sport through various feeder programs, some of them funded by the league.

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Walcott said he hopes young Black kids with an interest in hockey look at something like Monday night and find hope. He said he got the word from Cooper on Sunday night that he was likely to make his debut, but wasn’t told who his linemates would be for the game.

“A whirlwind of emotion, a long time coming,” Walcott said. “To get into that starting lineup was great. ... Coop did something really special here to promote this for young kids.”

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Published May 11th, 2021 at 12:56 IST

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