This has been breaking my heart and making me cry all day. The news broke very late last night and details came this morning. A team of boys traveling to a playoff game, t-boned by a semi. There were twenty-nine on the bus, fifteen already confirmed dead.
These kids weren’t ‘prospects’ or potential future NHLers. This is Junior A and these boys – and they were boys, 16-21 years old – were playing for the love of the game and the chance for a college scholarship. For many of them, it would have been their last go-round of competitive hockey before transitioning into their adult lives. For the coaches and broadcaster and the volunteer statistician, it was love because the pay wasn’t worth it.
There is a GoFundMe for the team, for funerals and for the survivors, many of whom have severe injuries.
And this is a screenshot of the Facebook comments from the ER attending at the closest hospital, who saw every victim and watched parents laugh with joy at their son only being a paraplegic. Because it meant he had survived.
Ten players, two coaches, statistician and broadcaster confirmed dead in Humboldt Broncos bus crash
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