San Jose Barracuda are bringing in former NHL defenseman Akim Aliu on a tryout, Sharks general manager Mike Grier confirmed
FILE – Calgary Flames center Akim Aliu controls the puck against Nashville Predators defenseman Victor Bartley during the first period of an NHL hockey game April 23, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. Aliu and his fellow members of the Hockey Diversity Alliance are feeling betrayed and confused after being excluded by the NHL in its decision to launch an inclusion coalition.
Aliu, a second-round draft pick by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2007, started his professional career in 2009 and in 11 seasons has played for a combined 14 teams between the AHL and ECHL. Besides playing in Czechia, Aliu has also had stints in Europe in the KHL, SHL, Allvenskan, and in Slovakia. “It’s huge. I’ve prided myself on always doing things the right way morally, and never wavered through all the dark times,” AliuIn November 2019, Aliu, who is Black, revealed in social media posts that he was bullied and had racist slurs directed toward him by then-Flames coach Bill Peters a decade earlier when the two were with the Rockford IceHogs of the AHL.
Aliu wrote about how, as a 16-year-old, his “refusal to strip naked and get in a bathroom in the back of the team bus with three other rookies,” led to former NHL player Steve Downie shoving “his fiberglass stick through my mouth.” In Feb. 2023, Aliu published an autobiography titled, “Dreamer: Growing Up Black in the World of Hockey” in which he graphically detailed the Downie incident and verbal abuse he underwent as a hockey-playing kid in Toronto.
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