Hockey heroes celebrate Canadian first in Surrey, B.C.

Ryan Straschnitzki is used to handling a puck, but he’s now learning to do it from a different perspective: in a sled. “It’s definitely a different sport,” Straschnitzki said at a celebrity sledge hockey game in North Surrey Saturday. It’s been nearly two years since the deadly Humboldt Broncosbus crash, the hockey community’s worst-ever accident, in which Straschnitzki was paralyzed from the chest down. In December, the 20-year-old had spinal surgery in