Broncos meet, mingle and rub shoulders with the NHL

LAS VEGAS — It was Monday, early April, and Andrew Ference sent out a feeler.
How, he wondered, could he — and more specifically, NHL players and teams — help?
That query, propelled by shock, grief and helplessness, was directed to the Humboldt Broncos, whose bus crash at a highway intersection three days earlier caught the attention of the wider world.
Sixteen on that bus died, and 13 more were injured. Ference — a long-time NHL player who was recently hired as the NHL&r