Jared Bednar was busy Wednesday in Pittsburgh. He had just led an Avalanche practice at PPG Paints Arena on the heels of a 6-4 victory over the Penguins in the same building some 14 hours earlier.
Colorado’s head coach wasn’t thinking about the fourth-year anniversary of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that killed 16 players and team staff members and injured 13 others on April 6, 2018.
Until I asked him about it.
“I’m always thinking about it when people bring it up,” Bednar said, with tears beginning to emerge.
Bednar and I have ties to Humboldt and the Broncos — his much deeper than mine.