Hockey history was made Wednesday when coaches Jason Payne and Joel Martin faced off against each other in an ECHL game in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
It's the first time in the history of the ECHL and believed to be the first time in North American men's pro hockey that two Black coaches opposed each other.
Payne's Cincinnati Cyclones defeated Martin's Kalamazoo Wings, 2-1, in the matinee at the Wings Events Center before thousands of local school students on "Education Day."
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