Kwong played for the New York Rangers in 1948. He will be nominated for induction to the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder category
Kristina Heintz spent a few hours on Monday talking to Grade 8 students at the National Sport School in Calgary about her dad.
On Wednesday, five years after his death at age 95, a nomination will be submitted to the Hockey Hall of Fame requesting that Kwong be inducted in the Builder category, same as O’Ree was five years ago and Herb Carnegie last year. Kwong looks over a wall of photos of him from this hockey career in his Calgary home on Jan. 21, 2008.Larry begged his mother to let him play hockey, and he learned on a frozen pond with a pair of oversized $4 skates and mail-order catalogues strapped to his legs in place of shin guards.
He became so popular that he was given the keys to Chinatown and helped draw large crowds to Madison Square Garden for Rovers games. He was the team’s leading scorer in 1947-48, and became the first player of Asian descent to line up in the NHL that spring. “His is just the classic hero’s journey story,” said Chad Soon, a teacher in Vernon, B.C., who is also behind the effort to get Kwong inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. “He broke down barriers while confronted with in-your-face racism every day.
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