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Humboldt Broncos

he Humboldt Broncos are a junior A hockey club in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, and have played in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League since 1970. On 6 April 2018, the Broncos' team bus collided with a semi-trailer while travelling to a playoff game, and sixteen people died. The Broncos returned to the ice that October and have iced a team every season since, and the organ-donation movement that followed is marked each 7 April as Green Shirt Day.

League Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, junior A
Founded 1970
Arena Elgar Petersen Arena, Humboldt, Saskatchewan — home since 1980
SJHL championships 1972, 1973, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012
National titles Royal Bank Cup champions in 2003 and 2008
6 April 2018 The team bus collided with a semi-trailer en route to a playoff game; sixteen people died
Memorial On 12 September 2018 the club raised 29 banners honouring everyone who was on the bus
Legacy Logan Boulet's organ donation prompted close to 150,000 Canadians to register as donors — the Logan Boulet Effect — now marked annually on Green Shirt Day, 7 April