“I really believe if I was a different colour hockey player I would’ve been looked at a lot differently.” Former NHLer Anson Carter opens up about how race impacted his career.
He split much of the 1996-97 season with the Capitals and their AHL affiliate in Portland before being dealt to the Boston Bruins as part of a blockbuster trade involving Jason Allison, Jim Carey, Adam Oates, Bill Ranford and Rick Tocchet.
“I look at a guy like Iggy, Jarome Iginla, and he was given every opportunity to thrive there in Calgary,” Carter said. “Slow starts every year. Iggy was a notorious slow starter but no one ever talked about trading him and he was given the opportunity to grow as a hockey player to become a fabulous hockey player and I was never given that chance. Every time I’d put numbers on the board it was ‘OK this is a good guy to get out of here to trade for somebody else,’ and it blew my mind.
“It was funny because all the people in Vancouver were ripping me for being greedy and they don’t know, like, they never really offered me a raise there,” Carter said. “They said, ‘we’ll give you a slight bump, maybe a hundred grand and that’s it,’ and I was like nope I’ve got way too much pride for that.”
He finished his NHL career with 202 goals, 421 points and 229 penalty minutes, adding an additional 13 points in 24 total playoff appearances.“I really believe if I was a different colour hockey player, and I’m going to say it, I really believe I would’ve been looked at a lot differently,” Carter added. “I really do.”
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