»It hits everybody hard — it’s just so tragic. There is a child without a parent now, » one hockey mom said.
Young girls from a Southern California youth hockey team were left traumatized after a team road trip turned into a nightmare in Colorado, killing one player’s father and sending multiple children and adults to the hospital.
Parents at The Cube Ice and Entertainment Center in Valencia — the team’s home rink — struggled to explain the devastating crash to their daughters as the Santa Clarita Valley community reeled from the tragedy.
”She was distraught,” team hockey dad Serge Zarubin said of his daughter’s reaction. ”It’s understandable. It’s hard for them. It’s hard on grownups. It’s even harder for the kids.”
”It hits everybody hard — it’s just so tragic. There is a child without a parent now,” Santa Clarita Valley hockey mom Kelly Lytle said. ”It’s just really disheartening to think about those families.”
The crash happened just before 9 a.
