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Zach Hyman, Canada, left wing/centre (Edmonton Oilers) [417] 1st and only Jewish Hockey player to score more than 50 goals in an NHL regular season 2023–2024. Peter Ing, Canada, goaltender (NHL) [448] Joe Ironstone, Canada, goaltender (NHL) [449] Max Kaminsky, Canada, centre (NHL) [450] Evan Kaufmann, US, forward [451]
Paul Goldstein, tennis player; USTA boys' 16s and two-time 18s singles champion [249] Brian Gottfried, tennis player; USTA boys' 12s and two-time 18s singles champion, won 1975 and 1977 French Open Men's Doubles (with Raúl Ramírez), and 1976 Wimbledon Men's Doubles (with Ramirez), highest world ranking #3 [250]
Being an African-American Jew, as of March 2024 he was the only Black Jewish player in the NHL. [2] His father played ice hockey for UMass Lowell, and Jordan almost became a goaltender like his father and older brother Elijah, but he "liked being able to skate and play out of the net too much", so he became a defenseman. [7]
Marc Trestman, US, NFL head coach (Chicago Bears, 2013–14), current head coach of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League [69] Irina Viner-Usmanova, Russia, coach of multiple world and Olympic champions in rhythmic gymnastics, President of Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation [70] [71] [72] Ryan Warsofsky, US, NHL ice hockey ...
When he was 17 years old, Toronto Sun writer Steve Simmons predicted that he "might be better than all" the previous Jewish ice hockey players (which included the then-current Jewish NHL players centre Michael Cammalleri, right winger Mike Brown, left winger Eric Nystrom, and centre Jeff Halpern). [6]
Eliezer "Elie" Alexeevich Sherbatov (Hebrew: אליעזר שרבטוב; born 9 October 1991) is an Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player who plays for the Jonquière Marquis of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, after having played for HC Mariupol of the Ukrainian Hockey League until the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Val James was the first African American player to play in the NHL, called up by the Buffalo Sabres in 1982. [14] His stints with the Buffalo Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs were short-lived and he eventually retired in 1987 due to injury. [14] The number of black NHL players was 26 by the end of the 20th century and sat at 32 in 2016. [9]
[5] [6] David has a younger brother, Mike, who in 2018 as a 13-year-old had already received offers from the Vaughan Kings and Toronto Junior Canadians of the Greater Toronto Hockey League. [7] Levin was eight years old when he first discovered North American ice hockey, as his father was watching an NHL game on TV. "I asked him what he's watching.