Dan Cleary, who played 938 games in the NHL and won a Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings in 2008, is offering his sincere condolences to the family and friends of a 10-year-old hockey player killed on Christmas Day when the ATV he was riding in with his father went through some ice. Cleary, who is from Newfoundland and Labrador like the boy and his family, posted a message on his Facebook Page for Dan Cleary Hockey School, which the boy once attended after winning a certificate at a banquet.
In a show of solidarity for the family, people in the community of Clarenville and elsewhere put out sticks on their front porches the way many did following the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018. The boy's team was called the Clarenville Caribous. He was killed while travelling over ice with his father on an ATV near Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. The side-by-side broke through the ice and became submerged. Cleary's hockey school is located in Paradise, less than two hours away from Clarenville.
Local RCMP, firefighters and community members managed to get the boy from the water while he was still alive. Sadly, he passed away later in hospital on Christmas night.
