Humboldt Broncos

Flynn Flon, with all the injuries, they've been good.

And then Weyburn will be in Humboldt this weekend for a big matchup against the Humboldt Broncos as well, who made a big trade today.

You know, I look at the standings.

There's six teams with 20 points already.

They did have a guy in Leo Jewett who requested a trade out of Melville.

So unfortunately, a guy that's been there for three years, but he went to Nippon, and they got him, and they got Max Cooper, another prospect from the Prince Albert Mintu, who's having a good start to his season.

And then Melford Humboldt another 20 year old deal good hockey trade Kai Holowaczuk and a PDF for player development fee went to Melford to then Carson Dick the former Portland Winterhawk who spent some time with Estevan as well went to Humboldt to add to that highly high and very busy forward unit for the Humboldt Broncos so some 20 year olds and some veterans being moved here

SJHL.ca, you can see it.

A good old-fashioned hockey trade, folks.

And then we'll get into the other one, which was the Humboldt Broncos and the Melfort Mustangs.

We'll talk about that in a sec.

But let's go with the first one, Melville and Nipouin.

I'll say what it is.

You respond.

The Humboldt Broncos have acquired, I guess I'll call it the rights to because he isn't playing anywhere currently, but he was in the WHL for several years.

Carson Dick, who had some experience with the Estevan Bruins a few years ago as a 17-year-old, really good season there.

The premier recently told Nenshi to stop complaining and start campaigning.

It's been another fatal crash at the same Saskatchewan intersection as the Humboldt Broncos crash more than eight years ago.

Police say an SUV and a pickup collided Sunday afternoon south of the town of Nipwin.

The 39-year-old driver of the SUV was killed.

And I said, give me a seven game series of these two teams.

The Nippon Hawks with a 3-2 win over the Humboldt Broncos.

And what a night it was.

And, you know, shout out to a lot of players who had really good nights.

They're playing very well.

They're winning games in a lot of different ways and they're, they're making things happen.

And as I mentioned, the Melfort Mustangs in second place after a really good last 10 games for them, they've really put themselves into a strong spot and, The Humboldt Broncos and Weber Red Wings are tied with 18 points.

Nipawin, Melville, and Flin Flon tied with 17.

But we went with one of them who has had one of the better starts to his sophomore year, Matthew Van Blerkom.

a sophomore who's had a little bit more of a traditional path to college hockey than some of our previous guests this season, but played in the SJHL, played for the Humboldt Broncos, made the jump to the USHL to play with a loaded Muskegon team, won a Clark Cup.

There was a coaching change at Michigan Tech from the time he committed, but it was a really, really enjoyable interview.

Trent, anything else you want to touch on with our interview with Matthew Van Blaerkom before we kick it over to him?

And that was like kind of my building blocks of where I thought my career would kind of take off a bit for sure.

Well, it's interesting too because your junior career started fairly locally in Humboldt.

You finished the 22-23 season in the SJ with the Humboldt Broncos and were nearly a point-per-game player.

You skated in nine playoff games.

Yeah, we

went off and went into the Humboldt Broncos coaches' room and I drew a fun picture on Carter Hansen's digital...

You know, hockey board there.

That was a great game, though, for about, you know, 40 minutes.

I completely agree with you.

I mention all the time about goaltending.

Dylan Adams had a great outing against the Humboldt Broncos.

And of course, Alex Watron had a good outing against Melford as well.

I read two to three books a year and I'm currently enjoying Crossroads by Caleb Dahlgren.

of the Humboldt Broncos, an amazing story of resilience and courage.

Caleb was on our program a couple of years ago about his book, Crossroads, which is an amazing story.

And I'm sure you remember the Humboldt Broncos accident that took the lives of so many of that team.

And Caleb was on the Broncos program.

April 6, 2018, when it collided with a tractor trailer while heading to Nipawin, Saskatchewan, for a playoff game.

It's kind of where, I guess, I don't know if you want to call it my journey started, but it was this group of people that got me out there and got me speaking to people in the industry and inspired me to be a part of this movement and And I said before, you know, I feel like I'm always speaking to the choir because the people that are here are clearly good people, engaged, and as has been mentioned already, want to make this a safer workplace for everybody.

But my story, specifically my son Evan Thomas, was a member of the 2018 Humboldt Broncos, and he was on the bus, and he didn't come home.

I guess it's been eight years, and maybe in Saskatchewan is certainly part of the big story, and I know across the world it was too, but just some general things from that day.

They were heading up to Nippon for game five, down three games to one, and heading north, Went through Tisdale, headed north on Highway 35.