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Given the scope and breadth of the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy, it was all but inevitable that the worst news possible would hit Moose Jaw and teams from the area. On Saturday afternoon, it was confirmed. Former Moose Jaw AAA Warriors standout Evan Thomas was among the 15 players, coaches and team personnel killed in the horrific accident. Evan is the son of Moose Jaw Warriors and Legends Hall of Famer Scott Thomas. The Canadian Press interviewed Scott during the vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena on Sunday night, and the former Tribe standout remembered his 18-year-old son as a strong athlete – playing both hockey and baseball – and a good student. “But he was a teammate first,” Thomas said. “He liked sports, but at times I think he tolerated sports so he could be a teammate. He just loved being a teammate. He loved his teammates and I think that was more important to him than the actual sport he was playing. “He loved those boys. He really loved those boys.” Thomas said that before Christmas he spoke with the team’s head coach, Darcy Haugan, who was also killed in the crash, about whether there would be any trades for the second half of the season. “Darcy just said, ‘You know, Scott, there’s something about this

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group of kids that’s special,’” he recalled. “He didn’t want to make any changes because they are such a great group of kids.” Haugan played for the Briercrest Clippers in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference hockey league at the turn of the century. His death was one of the first confirmed, and tributes quickly poured in. Haugan described in online tributes as a “great man” and amazing mentor to young players. “He will always be a great man in our hearts,” his sister posted on Twitter under the name Debbie Jayne. “The tears just keep coming.” Before becoming a coach, he played junior hockey in the league in the 1990s. Steven Wilson, a radio play-by-play announcer in Weyburn called Haugan “the classiest guy” in the league who always had time to chat. He said the last time he saw Haugan, the coach was playing video games in his office with one of his two young sons. “He was very dedicated to his family and at the same time he was a hockey guy.” – With files from Canadian Press

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