Dawg Nation Hockey Foundation, a Colorado non-profit which has raised nearly $1.4 million to benefit Front Range hockey players in need, spread its goodwill to Saskatchewan, Canada, after learning of the April 6 bus accident that killed 16 players and staff of the Humboldt Broncos of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. Dawg Nation raised money for the Broncos at its 2018 Dawg Bowl hockey tournament and flew down two paralyzed Broncos and their fathers to Denver in November for a weekend of University of Denver hockey, an Avalanche game and a Broncos game.
In return, the Broncos invited Dawg Nation executive director Marty Richardson and four others to Humboldt for a weekend of hockey.