{"id":444380,"date":"2026-02-04T02:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444380\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:16:44","slug":"calgary-flames-hold-moment-of-silence-for-three-teen-hockey-players-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/444380\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames hold moment of silence for three teen hockey players killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"355\">The hockey world is grieving after three teenage players from the Southern Alberta Mustangs were killed in a car crash on their way to practice Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"355\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/73875002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/73875002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"716\">The victims were identified as 18-year-olds JJ Wright and Cameron Casorso, both from Kamloops, British Columbia, and 17-year-old Caden Fine from Birmingham, Alabama. All three were pronounced dead at the scene after their vehicle collided with a gravel-hauling semi-truck near Stavely, just south of Calgary, around 11 a.m., according to Canadian authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"716\">A memorial of jerseys and hockey sticks was set up outside Stavely Arena Monday night. The Calgary Flames held a moment of silence before their game against the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"1035\">&#8220;It is with unimaginable heartbreak that we confirm three players from the Southern Alberta Mustangs were killed in a motor vehicle accident,&#8221; the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=122172228182854298&amp;set=a.122100139244854298&amp;type=3&amp;ref=embed_post\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a>. &#8220;These young men were more than hockey players \u2014 they were teammates, sons, brothers, friends, and deeply loved members of our Mustangs family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1293\">Casorso was a goaltender. Wright and Fine were both forwards. The trio had been traveling to a team practice when the crash occurred. The 40-year-old truck driver sustained minor injuries. An investigation is ongoing, per the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/calgary\/article\/alberta-junior-hockey-players-killed-in-crash-while-travelling-to-team-practice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CTV News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1461\">Fine had traveled from Alabama to chase his hockey dream in Canada. The Mustangs are playing in their first season in the US Premier Hockey League&#8217;s Premier Division.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1708\">&#8220;We are a family, and today our family is hurting,&#8221; the Mustangs said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1885\">The Kamloops Minor Hockey Association echoed the heartbreak, saying, &#8220;These three young men were teammates and friends to many. We are grieving together as one hockey family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1887\" data-end=\"2018\">Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney posted condolences, saying his heart breaks for the families and the entire Mustangs community.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2020\" data-end=\"2117\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">An unspeakable tragedy. And a reminder of how fragile life can be \u2014 even on the road to practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hockey world is grieving after three teenage players from the Southern Alberta Mustangs were killed in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,5904,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-444380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-junior-hockey","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116009959068850915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}