{"id":275737,"date":"2025-11-11T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275737\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:55:13","slug":"maple-ridge-crash-victim-identified-as-local-hockey-coach-and-mentor-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275737\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Ridge crash victim identified as local hockey coach and mentor &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A hockey coach and mentor was killed in a crash in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762614923_240_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey Association confirmed the passing of Martin Hak in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>They said Hak had been with the association for more than a decade and was currently the coach of the Mission City Outlaws.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHak pushed his players hard because he believed in them. He saw what they could become and never stopped trying to bring that out in them. His influence reaches far beyond the rink, and many of our athletes, families, and coaches will feel this loss,\u201d the organization said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage our players to lean on each other, their teammates, and their community during this time. Support is here. No one needs to navigate this alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11518014\/trailer-park-boys-charges\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762840513_498_5ebd7024cd2541f4ed3a1ac3186d649c9c197365394cc0053ddec5ebb4507bae.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith charged with sexual assault for 2017 incident\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11519403\/trailer-park-boys-bubbles-actor-mike-smith-charges-halifax-court\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762840513_498_5ebd7024cd2541f4ed3a1ac3186d649c9c197365394cc0053ddec5ebb4507bae.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSex assault charge against \u2018Trailer Park Boys\u2019 Bubbles actor \u2018won\u2019t be tried in the media\u2019: lawyer\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Mission City Junior Hockey Club also posted to Facebook, saying Hak\u2019s passion for hockey, humour and personality will be greatly missed. They said he was more than just a hockey coach, he was a mentor, a role model and friend to countless players, parents and families.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on 128th Avenue near Laity Street around 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Ridge Meadows RCMP has not released many details about the crash or what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A hockey coach and mentor was killed in a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,126142,82,1890],"class_list":["post-275737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-maple-ridge-crash","tag-sports","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}