LAST WORD

He just looked at me and his mother and he goes, ‘Well, I’m going to get onto the Olympic sledge hockey team.’ He’s an amazing kid.”

Tom Straschnitzki to The Calgary Herald about his 18-year-old son Ryan, a defenseman on the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who was paralyzed in the bus accident last week that took the lives of 15 people. Less than 24 hours after finding out he would never walk again, he set his sights on making Canada’s Paralympic team.