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Peoria Rivermen winger Shawn Wheeler with hockey legend Gordie Howe after they met unexpectedly in the team's locker room at Carver Arena during the 1992-93 IHL season.

Remembering Peoria Rivermen's first Black player and those who...

He played 45 games that season, scored 6 goals, added 3 assists and piled up 185 penalty minutes — the kind that hurt and leave you bleeding and battered.

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