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When Konnor Snyder puts on his hockey jersey this season, the 15-year-old hopes he won’t just be playing for the crest on the front of the jersey but for a crest on the left arm as well.
The crests were designed by Snyder and his mother Karla to celebrate the life of Ash Lascelle, who died earlier this year. The memorial crests are at the centre of a controversy which garnered province-wide attention when the Battlefords Minor Hockey Association (BMHA) ruled the emblems will not be permitted on the Battlefords Barons’ jerseys for the upcoming season.
“It was shocking,” Snyder said. “I was very disappointed to hear that we wouldn’t be allowed to wear Ash’s patch.”
Snyder, who was friends with Lascelle for a number of years before the young man’s death, said the crests are meant to help the players remember Lascelle while on the ice. Snyder said the team planned on wearing the patches until the end of the 2021 season, which would have been Lascelle’s final year with the Barons.