A bus crash in rural Saskatchewan devastated a junior hockey team on Friday night and by Saturday it had reverberated across the professional sporting world at an astonishing rate. It’s because the crash killed 15, many of them players under 20 – a team captain, a top-scorer, a defenceman who loved piano, the head coach. Those bus rides, from one rural rink to another, are so common in minor hockey, as many rattled professional players pointed out after the crash. Nick called his dad around 5 p.m., after the crash and Shumlanski drove over in a panic. “It was a pretty devastating sight,” Shumlanski told the StarPhoenix’s Arthur White-Crummey.

Source: National Post April 08, 2018 00:29 UTC