Humboldt Broncos sign interim head coach for 3 years

Humboldt-Broncos

Humboldt Broncos players salute the crowd after their SJHL game against the Nipawin Hawks. (Jonathan Hayward/CP)

HUMBOLDT, Sask. – Scott Barney has been named head coach and general manager of the Humboldt Broncos for the next three seasons.

The 40-year old from Oshawa, Ont., was hired as an assistant coach before the 2018-19 season.

Barney was appointed interim head coach on Dec. 28 after the Broncos parted ways with Nathan Oystrick.

Both Oystrick and Barney were hired after 16 members of the Saskatchewan junior hockey team — including its head coach and an assistant coach — were killed last April.

The team’s bus and a semi-truck collided at a rural intersection on the way to a playoff game.

Barney, a former player in the National Hockey League, took this season’s team to the quarterfinals in the playoffs.

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