Sasakamoose memorialized at SaskTel Centre
Hundreds of people gathered outside SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon on Wednesday to commemorate the second Fred Sasakamoose Day with a special reveal.
There wasn’t much sun in the sky to glisten off the 25-year-old bronze-cast face of Sasakamoose, but faces were lit by smiles as the statue was unveiled. The Saskatchewan hockey legend played 11 games in the NHL, making him one of the first Canadian Indigenous hockey players to make the league, and the first with treaty status.
Sasakamoose died in 2020 from COVID-19.
His son, Neil Sasakamoose, was present Wednesday for the reveal of his father’s likeness, alongside Neil’s mother, Loretta, and two of his uncles.