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<\/p>\nHUMBOLDT \u2014 The Saskatchewan Roughriders visited Humboldt on Saturday and, once again, Brady Holtvogt was part of the proceedings.<\/p>\n
Approaching his 11th birthday, Holtvogt visited Glenn Hall Park on June 6, 2018 when the Roughriders held a walk-through practice and community barbecue in the city of 6,000. The youngster had his photo taken with various players, including then-starting quarterback Zach Collaros.<\/p>\n
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As the home team\u2019s starting goaltender on Saturday, the 18-year-old Holtvogt backstopped the Humboldt Broncos to a 3-2 SJHL victory over the Estevan Bruins. Mere minutes after preserving the one-goal lead with a clutch save late in the third quarter, he posed for a photo with the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
The championship trophy was in Humboldt for the first stop on the Grey Cup Community Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I heard that the Riders were going to come back to Humboldt after they won the Grey Cup, I immediately started scrolling through my phone to find pictures of that day (in 2018),\u201d the victorious goaltender\u2019s father, Jason Holtvogt, said on Saturday at Elgar Petersen Arena.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible, incredible thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Especially when you consider the timing.<\/p>\n
On Friday night, Brady Holtvogt was on the Prince Albert Raiders\u2019 roster when the WHL team blanked the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-0. Due to an injury, Holtvogt was called up as an affiliate player to back up Steele Bass, who made 14 saves for Friday\u2019s shutout.<\/p>\n
Holtvogt, who had spent the better part of a week with the Raiders, rejoined the Broncos after Prince Albert won on Friday. He returned to Humboldt shortly after midnight and, within 24 hours, helped the Broncos register their 21st victory of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have a kid playing junior hockey, the chances of him being able to sleep at his own house are rare, to say the least,\u201d Holtvogt\u2019s proud father said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen very often.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re playing in your home rink \u2014 the rink that you played in from the time you were sitting in the office crying because you didn\u2019t want to skate and having Mom pay you a dollar to go and skate \u2014 and now you\u2019re the starting goaltender for your hometown team at 18.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the Roughriders are again part of the equation.<\/p>\n
The CFL team\u2019s 2018 visit took place nearly two months after a bus crash involving the Broncos\u2019 team bus killed 16 people and injured 13 others.<\/p>\n
To support the Humboldt community, the Roughriders held a public event at Glenn Hall Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was quite sad because of the accident, but there was a little bit of joy that got brought back (when the Roughriders visited),\u201d Brady Holtvogt recalled. \u201cIt was really uplifting.\u201d<\/p>\n
So was the announcement of Saturday\u2019s starting lineups. Broncos Head Coach and General Manager Brayden Klimosko happily delegated that responsibility to Roughriders receivers Samuel Emilus and Mitch Picton, who visited the dressing room with the Grey Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was exciting, seeing those guys who know how to win,\u201d Holtvogt said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey won that Grey Cup and having them give that speech kind of got us all fired up as a group and we came out strong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Humboldt Strong, once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUMBOLDT \u2014 The Saskatchewan Roughriders visited Humboldt on Saturday and, once again, Brady Holtvogt was part of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-464076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464076","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=464076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}