Ethan

What I want to know is... No, no, no, no.

This leads me back to my original question.

What inspired you to write this book?

All right.

What inspired me to write Black Aces?

I just thought it'd be really cool to write a series of profiles on important black hockey players.

I was approached with an idea of writing a book in August or September 2023.

And the idea came to just to...

Just came to my head.

I was in the shower one day and it happened.

And then I had the opportunity to approach a couple different NHL players and female hockey players and ask them if they'd be willing to be profiled.

And that's what led to Black Aces being a thing, getting an opportunity to speak to Jerome McGinley about his career and talking to other people about Jerome McGinley and his career, like Sidney Crosby.

Sorry to tell you.

No, but seriously, to get the opportunity to write that book and to write these profiles and to get other people to speak about their legacies and all these other different stories about them, I wasn't sure if we had ever seen a project of that size.

We've seen other books where maybe two or three players might get profiled, but I think we've reached a point in the league where Black people...

There's been so many great players who have come over the last how many decades and have made an impact.

It was just cool to have that opportunity to write about them.

And even if not every single player is mentioned in this book, I've had people for the last how many weeks say like, oh, is this guy in it?

Is this guy in it?

Is this guy in it?