16-04-2018 14:00 via thestarphoenix.com

Tank: Humboldt Broncos player's funeral at SaskTel Centre unprecedented

Gordie Howe and Evan Thomas will both be remembered as hockey players.
The comparison mostly ends there, but they will share another distinction.
Today, the Humboldt Broncos forward will join Howe as the only two people to have a memorial service held in their honour at SaskTel Centre during its 30-year history.
In September 2016, 61 members of Howe’s immediate and extended families attended a private interment ceremony outside SaskTel Centre. The ashes of the National Hockey League legend
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