Alumni Corner: Graeme Townshend
From breaking barriers as the first Jamaican-born NHLer to becoming a busy coach, Townshend continues to make an impact in the hockey community by Sasha Kandrach @KandrachSasha / NewYorkIslanders.com
Hockey has always been a means to an end for Graeme Townshend.
Over the course of his career as a player, coach, mentor, spectator and advocate for the sport, the former NHLer and New York Islander has always appreciated what it means to be a determined athlete with a fervor for competition. But perhaps more evidently, Townshend has cherished how the sport shaped his character, the tremendous people he met along the way and how it inspired him to pursue the subsequent chapter of his life when his playing days came to an end.