When people don’t understand the logistics of hockey, it’s easy for them to make unmerited claims about the sport. One that I’ve heard way too often is that hockey promotes violence. It’s a false assumption. In reality, an attribute of hockey is unification.
It’s been over a month since members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team were killed in a bus crash. A day will come when we will look back on it as nothing more than a distant memory. On the other hand, the impact this calamity has had on the hockey community will always be remembered.