These young players from away get billeted to local people who open their homes to them when they join the team.
There’s a Facebook post from a lady who billets the boys. She’s posted a picture of three of them sitting at her kitchen table, saying that her three “sons” won’t be coming home. 
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Final games tonight in the NHL season. Jets and Blackhawks have announced that they won’t have their own names on their jerseys.
Every player’s jersey will just read “Broncos.”
Donald Trump tweeted his condolences:
ETA: no snark, please. 
GoFundMe page has apparently raised $1.25 million.
Jets and Blackhawks also are donating $25,000 each to the Broncos.
Some news from the NHL:
I didn’t realize the kids were so young:
The [Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League], which is a Junior A league under Hockey Canada and is part of the Canadian Junior Hockey League, is open to North American-born players ages 16-20.
Please keep us posted with any updates. I did see the story here, but I don’t know how much coverage it’ll be getting in the states after a few days.
This brought tears to my eyes, a lovely and thoughtful gesture.
It’s horrible. Truly horrible.
I’m having a pint at my local pub and dabbing my eyes.
Wow, really emotional coverage on Hockey Night in Canada tonight. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like it.
Very emotional.
The death toll has risen to 15. There’s now a photo of the crash site being circulated in the latest articles. Looking at what remains of the bus, I find it amazing that only half the occupants were killed.
I’ve read that the top of the bus had to be removed by emergency survivors in order to extricate the survivors, so that picture might be a bit misleading. Clearly anybody in the front of that bus was fucked though. 
I assumed the transport truck t-boned the bus.
It looks like the other way around now.
ETA: Yes. The first emergency providers removed the roof.
Mrs Piper heard an interview with the ER doctor. He apparently said this was the worst he had seen - and he came from Syria.
All the articles I’ve read said it was the semi that hit the bus, but we’ll have to wait for the RCMP accident reconstruction to know. If bith véhicules we’re going full highway speed, either or both could have been spun around by the force of the collision
By the way, in case anyone’s wondering what all the green stuff is in the photos, that’s the semi’s cargo - apparently he was making a delivery of peat moss, which is why it’s all green and scattered so thoroughly - each package is pretty light.
Every article I’ve seen does indeed claim that the truck hit the bus, but we know how unreliable these early reports can be, and the pictures tell a different story. Judging from a couple of pictures taken from different sides, the front of the semi appears to be completely intact, while the middle of the trailer looks like it’s been rammed. Meanwhile the whole front of the bus is missing. I’m no expert, and there are no official statements yet, but it sure does look like the bus hit the mid-point of the trailer at high speed.
News article: Saskatoon ER Doctor calls Humboldt Broncos crash triage “most tragic night of my career.”
• Royal University Hospital got the alert for multiple serious injuries, called a Code Orange.
• injured started arriving at the hospital around 10 pm
• organised chaos - staff that didn’t all know each other just organised themselves into teams of two doctors, two nurses, and two therapists, to handle each patient as they came in.
• hospital had to turn away medical staff who were coming back off-shift to help, because they had too many.
• parents were telling medical staff to defer giving them updates on their own sons until everyone had been taken care of.
• people in Saskatoon were volunteering to bring food to the hospital so the staff didn’t need to worry about taking meal breaks.
• Saskatoon blood donor clinic has been turning away donors, because the clinic is jammed with donors; urging them to re-schedule their visits for next week.
Apparently there have been some identification issues. These kids are too young to grow play-off beards so they all had their hair dyed blonde for the play-offs.