What started as a text between two friends has turned into a social media phenomenon. On Sunday night, TSN play-by-play announcer Brian Munz posted a picture from a friend living in Humboldt, Sask., on his Twitter feed. The message showed a lonely hockey stick left out on the front step of a home with the message, […]
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Humboldt Broncos tragedy reminder how precarious bus trips can be in minor sports
Every year, thousands of teenage athletes travel millions of miles by bus in search of their dreams. Anybody who has been on one of these bus trips knows they can be long, tedious trips often on isolated, dark highways. In minor sports, travelling between far flung outposts by bus is usually where one learns about their […]
Sask. apologizes after 1 Humboldt player believed alive is dead, other pronounced dead is alive
Saskatchewan’s Justice Ministry has issued an apology after two players on the bus that crashed while taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game were misidentified — one who was pronounced to be dead is alive, and the other said to have been alive is dead. Xavier Labelle, in fact, survived the crash. […]
Coroner mistake: 1 Humboldt player thought alive is dead, another believed dead is alive
Two people on the bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team when it crashed were misidentified — one player pronounced as dead is alive, and another believed to be alive is dead, the Saskatchewan Justice Ministry says. One of the players initially announced as dead was identified as Xavier Labelle. In fact, Labelle survived the crash. Parker […]
'We will get through this': Hundreds honour Humboldt Broncos at vigil on home ice
Hundreds of people gathered in Humboldt, Sask., Sunday night to mourn those killed and injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. A vigil organized by the Saskatchewan government began at 7 p.m. CST from the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Broncos junior league hockey team. Fifteen people died from the Friday collision between a bus […]
13 victims of Humboldt Broncos bus crash identified
NOTE: This story will be updated as we learn victims’ names and more about them. Fifteen people are dead and 14 injured after the bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck on a highway north of Tisdale, Sask., early Friday evening. The team was on its […]
Jets, Blackhawks honour Humboldt Broncos in regular-season finale
Winnipeg Jets and Chicago Blackhawks players wore the word ‘BRONCOS’ on the back of their game jerseys in place of their own names to honour the victims and survivors of the fatal bus accident Friday involving Saskatchewan’s Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team. There was a moment silence as the teams stood together in a circle at centre ice […]
Death toll rises to 15 in Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team bus crash
The death toll from a horrific crash involving a Saskatchewan junior hockey team bus has risen to 15. The RCMP said a 15th person died Saturday, after 14 fatalities were announced overnight. Another 14 people were injured — some critically — in the collision near Tisdale, Sask. The president of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team fought back tears Saturday as he described being […]
'Hockey stands with you': Condolences, support pour in for Humboldt Broncos after crash
Condolences and offers of help are pouring in from the hockey community for families of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team, which was involved in a horrific crash that left 14 dead and 14 others injured. The accident occurred Friday when a truck collided with a bus carrying the junior hockey team to a playoff game […]