Induction year: 2001
Induction category: Athlete

Order of Sport Recipient and Hall of Famer Herb Carnegie was a Canadian ice hockey player and one of the best players to never play in a pro-league. He broke down many racial barriers as one of the first professional Black Canadian athletes in the sport and played on the first all-Black line in ice hockey history. The line was nicknamed the “Black Aces”, a play on the team name the Quebec Aces. While playing in the Quebec Senior Hockey League, Carnegie was voted his team’s Most Valuable Player three times and was often one of the top scorers in the league. After retiring from ice hockey Carnegie went beyond his wins when he founded the Future Aces Hockey School, one of the first ice hockey schools in Canada. The goal of the school was to foster respect, tolerance, diversity, and sportsmanship among young ice hockey players. Carnegie also continued his sports career as a senior golfer, winning numerous local and national championships.

Induction year: 2005
Induction category: Athlete

Order of Sport Recipient and Hall of Famer Stan Mikita was a Slovak-Canadian professional ice hockey player who is well-known for accidentally inventing the “banana blade” after breaking his stick in practice and experimenting with curves on hockey stick blades to see how it can affect shooting. More notably, he played for Team Canada during the infamous Summit Series against the Soviet Union in 1972. It began as a series which Canada was supposed to win all eight games and ended in the most dramatic goal in hockey history. The 1972 Summit Series was organized as a result of Canada's frustration at not being allowed to ice a team of professional players at the World Championships and Olympics, where the Soviets showed up with only their very best. And so, September 1972 was arranged to settle all bragging rights, best on best regardless of amateur status. Four games in Canada - Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver - followed by four in Moscow. It was a series that pitted democratic Canada against Communist CCCP, professional NHL versus "amateur" Soviet hockey. It was East against West, known versus unknown. Canada ultimately gained victory, 4-3-1 in the eight games, and changed hockey forever. The world saw international hockey as it never had before, and out of this series came the Canada Cup and the start of professional hockey played between nations.