#sjhl

it doesn’t feel like a whole year has passed. your loss has changed our lives forever. we hold each other closer now, we extend our love to those we can. we feel your love for hockey and for your team in all of us. we carry that for you.

you have taught us so much this past year, things that we will carry with us for years to come. we are sorry we couldn’t give those years to you.

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Recently, I wrote about the University of North Dakota hockey team’s changing recruiting philosophy. Not only will UND focusing on the high-end players that are drafted, but they’re also getting commitments from talented, older players to supplement their roster. These are players that haven’t been drafted by NHL teams. They may be players at the end of their junior eligibility that have flown…

THN in Humboldt: What's the way forward for SJHL and Broncos after devastating tragedy?

[ad_1] “Whatever we do or don’t do, we have to do it with the blessings of the Humboldt Broncos,” said Saskatchewan Jr. A Hockey League commissioner Bill Chow. “The Humboldt Broncos come first in any decision we make.” HUMBOLDT, Sask. – Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, there is not a manual or a playbook the can tell a Jr. A league what to do if one of its teams essentially gets wiped out…

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.