Thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved...........

[ZR]

A crash between a tractor-trailer and a bus carrying a junior league hockey team left 14 people dead Friday in western Canada's Saskatchewan province, police said.

Members of the Humboldt Broncos were headed to the town of Nipawin for a Saskatchewan Junior League (https://www.sjhl.ca/home) playoff game when the crash happened north of Tisdale.
Fourteen others were injured and taken to a hospital. Three were in critical condition, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told CNN partner CTV. (https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/fourteen-dead-after-humboldt-broncos-bus-semi-crash-1.3875160)
Twenty-eight people -- including the driver -- were on the bus at the time of the accident, police said.








Authorities have not identified the victims and would not confirm whether they were players or coaches. Junior league hockey teams are for athletes ages 16 to 20.
"Our thoughts and prayers are extended to the families of our staff and athletes as well as to all who have been impacted by this horrible tragedy," Kevin Garinger, the team's president, said in a statement (https://www.humboldtbroncos.com/news_article/show/905273?referrer_id=618169). "Our Broncos family is in shock as we try to come to grips with our incredible loss."
The team was scheduled to play the Nipawin Hawks in the fifth game of a best-of-seven playoff series (https://sjhl.hockeytech.com/stats/playoffs/36) on Friday. The teams earlier played a lengthy game Wednesday that Nipawin won 6-5 in three overtimes in Humboldt, leaving Nipawin with a 3-1 series lead.

[7up-5.0]

So sad thoughts and prayers for all involved.

[Scrape]

Was watching the Jays game when the news broke. So sad to hear.

[Stephen06GT]

I just read about this. In a word, devastating.

[Blackmare]

Horrible to hear.

[Screw]

:( prayers for the families , very sad

[R3troGT]

Stories like this should remind us all, that no matter how bad you think your day is going, it can always get worse.

[Old Fart]

Thoughts and prayers

[92redragtop]

Terrible tragedy. RIP to the victims.

[WTF]

this is just tragic

[Gabe]

I passed through Humboldt last week, so very tragic.

Can't imagine sitting at that church with other parents/ families waiting to hear which kids were alive and which had been lost.

[ZR]

The death toll from the bus crash involving a Saskatchewan junior hockey team bus has risen to 15, a day after the tragedy impacting players, personnel and others with the Humboldt Broncos.
The RCMP said the 15th person died Saturday after the crash involving the bus, which was carrying 29 people including the driver, and a semi-trailer. Another 14 people were injured — some critically — in the collision about 30 kilometres north of Tisdale, Sask.
The president of the Broncos, of the Saskatchewan Major Junior Hockey League, fought back tears Saturday as he described being "heartbroken and completely devastated" by the crash.
"These young men have had a significant impact, on our homes, on our families, on our children," said Kevin Garinger at a news conference attended by about 200 people in Humboldt.

[Das 5.0]

Very sad and I pray for all and the families effected by this ... hug your family ....

[ZR]

A 21-year-old Lethbridge, Alta., hockey player's organs will be donated, saving multiple lives, after he was critically injured in a bus crash that claimed the lives of several of his teammates on the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in Saskatchewan.
A friend of Logan Boulet confirmed to CBC News on behalf of the family that Boulet had been kept on life support, until matches for his organs could be found. He was expected to be taken off life support Saturday evening.