Hockey's Support For Each Other

There will always be rivalries. There will always be hate between certain players. However, there will always be a care from each other. With hockey, it has shown the support and love that they have following and since the tragedy of the Humboldt Broncos. It is going to be felt for a long time due to a number of players being very young and the amount of heartbreak from the various families that may have lost loved ones.

For a quick question to what happened, a tractor trailer crosses into an intersection and crashes into the Bronco bus on April 6. The death toll stands at 16 at the moment, which includes players, coaches, statistician, radio person and athletic trainer. The other 13 are left with injuries, with some still in the hospitals. For this Saskatchewan hockey team, the support and thoughts from all over the world is something to be amazed.

It really reflected with the NHL. A number of these players originate from Canada, and hockey is possibly their most popular sport in all their provinces. Some of these players, and coaches probably grew up near where the Broncos played. A lot of the NHL teams, if not all of them, paid tribute to them whether in the playoffs or final games of the season. It's not just families that are devastated. The entire league is upset. These are very young people. Kids in a nut shell. They live on those buses, something players and coaches think about. They spend hours upon hours on a bus and they knit themselves together to have this bond that you don't really see in professional sports, NHL at times included.

As of now, a GoFundMe has made 15 million dollars in support of the families. Whether there will be charges on the truck driver is another story that won't be concluded for a while. It's about as deadly as you can get from a non plane crash tragedy involving a sports team. There will be lots of heavy hearts and whoever wins the cups in Canada and America will certainly be honoring their wins to the Humboldt Broncos.

Hockey may be a sport you see more hits and knockdowns, but their support for each other rivals anything the other sports have.