Support continues to pour in from the southwest for those lost in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash this past Friday.

Swift Current Broncos Board of Directors Chairman, Trent McCleary, says Swift's familiarity to the situation has been able to help lend overwhelming support.

"For our organization it opened up some old wounds. It's been 31 years since our bus accident where four players lost their lives. We have an inkling of what Humboldt is going through right now. It's a really tough time for their players, their families, the organization. It's all about supporting Humboldt right now."

Survivors from the Swift Current bus crash visited Humboldt survivors in the hospital this past weekend.

A team bus crash is understandably devastating, especially when factoring in the significance of that means of transportation to the level of sport.

"It's your second home - In Saskatchewan there's lots of travel, so you're constantly on it. It has a huge influence in Junior hockey," said Home Hardware Midget AAA Legionnaires head coach Darren Evjen, who had a three-year coaching stint with the SJHL's Notre Dame Hounds.

"I think the big thing is the comradery. On the bus you're together and you can always hear players talking and that. Basically it's a lot of communication, so that's how you build relationships with each other on the bus. That's probably the biggest connection you get through a bus," Evjen added.

The tight-knit connection and relationship throughout the hockey community has unfortunately had to use this event to show how close it really is world-wide during the healing process of this tragic event.

"You just see how the hockey world is surrounding them right now, because it's a very small fraternity," McCleary noted. "The hockey world is global, but nobody is more than one or two people removed from this tragedy. You're always connected and it shows that it's a big world but it's a very small hockey community."

Currently the GoFundMe page for families of the Humboldt Broncos is at nearly $5.8 million as of 1:30 p.m., and counting.