‘Brody was a gift:’ Friends say goodbye to Humboldt Broncos statistician
HUMBOLDT, Sask. — Brody Hinz was such a sports fan that, in Grade 8, he made a special request to his principal — so special, he wrote it down in a letter.
“The letter said please consider shutting down the school tomorrow,” family friend Cory Popoff recalled.
“Tomorrow is the NHL trade deadline … no one will be able to concentrate in class.”
Hinz, 18, was one of 16 people who died after the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team bus and a semi-truck collided last week on the way to a playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan.