Community rallying for patches honouring local hockey player
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A member of the Battlefords Barons hockey team is getting support from the community after the Battlefords Minor Hockey Association ruled the team’s members cannot wear special patches on their jerseys to honour a former teammate.
The patches are in remembrance of 15-year-old Ash Lascelle, who passed away earlier this year. Konnor Snyder decided to create a sticker to honour his friend, and distribute them as stickers at his school. The stickers quickly became popular, so members of Ash’s midget hockey team took the project one step further by ordering patches so the Bantam Barons could display them on their jerseys.
The local minor hockey association ruled the team will not be permitted to wear the crests following this season, citing their regulations which require advance approval by the association for emblems on jerseys.
More than 1,600 people have so far signed a petition asking the association to reconsider its decision.
