Hockey world and beyond mourn after Humboldt Broncos tragedy

Space_Time · Apr 7, 2018

So sorry to hear about this! Will thoughts and prayers be enough to help everyone thru this? How long will it take to rebuild?

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Hockey world and beyond mourn after Humboldt Broncos tragedy
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Team president Kevin Garinger described the Broncos as a close-knit team.
Thoughts and prayers and pouring in from across Canada and beyond in the aftermath of the devastating accident involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team on Friday night.

RCMP confirmed Saturday morning that 14 people were killed and 14 injured, some still in critical condition, when a truck collided with the bus carrying the team to a playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan. The team’s coach and captain are amongst the deceased.

U.S. president Donald Trump paid his condolences via a phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who also joined Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in sharing their thoughts on the devastating crash.

Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean travels the length and breadth of the country for Hometown Hockey and was solemn and supportive in his response to the tragic events, as was former Team Canada captain Hayley Wickenheiser.
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Space_Time · Apr 11, 2018

Here's more:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tragedy-and-a-team-1523302335

Tragedy and a Team

A horrific collision in Canada involving a hockey bus shakes a country—and all of sports

Flowers lie at center ice as people gather for a vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos, to honor the victims of a fatal bus accident in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Flowers lie at center ice as people gather for a vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos, to honor the victims of a fatal bus accident in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. PHOTO: POOL/REUTERS

By Jason Gay

April 9, 2018 3:32 p.m. ET

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The games are the games, but what really bonds a team are the hours in between: the practices, locker rooms, dinners, bus rides. Especially those bus rides. On the bus, you can discover a lot: if the team is loose, confident, anxious, divided or tightly knit. You can watch from the stands for an entire season, and never truly understand a team’s dynamic, its heart.

On the bus, you can learn everything you need to know.

By now, you’ve surely read about what happened, or, more devastatingly, seen the photographs: of a collision Friday in Saskatchewan, involving a tractor-trailer and a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos, a Canadian junior hockey team. At least 14 people on the bus were injured, and 15 were killed, including the head coach, assistant coach, play-by-play broadcaster, statistician, bus driver—and 10 players, aged 16 to 21.

Adam. Jaxon. Conner. Stephen. Evan. Jacob. Parker. Three Logans—Logan Hunter, Logan Schatz, Logan Boulet.

Brody. Mark. Tyler. Glen. Darcy.

The unthinkable, made real.

“The worst nightmare has happened,” said Bill Chow, the president of the Saskatchewan league in which the Broncos played.

As the Journal’s Kim Mackrael reported from Humboldt, the hockey team is thoroughly embedded into the small, population-5,800 farming and potash-mining town. Players live with host families, take kids trick-or-treating on Halloween, shovel driveways after snowstorms.

“They’re our boys,” one resident told Mackrael. “They’re everybody’s boys.”

Days later, the sorrow continues, as does the shock. On Monday, word arrived that a player misidentified as dead (Xavier Labelle) was, in fact, alive—which, in turn, meant a teammate identified as a survivor (Parker Tobin) was actually dead.

It’s horrifying, all of it.

“It’s got to rip the heart out of your chest,’ said the Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock, who grew up in nearby Saskatoon.

This tragedy cuts to the core of the sport and the whole of Canada. But you don’t have to know them to mourn them. Their deaths are agonizingly relatable. The bus is a way of life in sports, at almost every level—from arena to arena, school to school, city to city. Those rides can be tedious, but also essential—there are conversations, songs, movies, naps, jokes. Friendships are made. Talk to a pro athlete, and what they often recall about their early days is not what happened in the games, but those long, humble bus rides.
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