MONTREAL — Six Ukrainian children who took part in Quebec City’s famed peewee hockey tournament earlier this year are returning to the provincial capital next…
The players were part of a team of 11- and 12-year-old Ukrainian refugees who were showered with attention at the annual Quebec International Peewee Hockey Tournament in February.One of the organizers who helped bring the team to Quebec City last winter said the six had expressed a desire to stay in the province at the time but had to return home due to visa requirements.
Berube said Monday the boys have secured visas to take classes and play hockey at the city’s English-language St. Patrick’s High School. “Since the day they went back, they’ve been talking about Quebec and their experience almost on a daily basis with their parents back in Ukraine,” Berube said.“For this trip, I told those boys ‘Hey, you’re going to be coming now and it’s going to be serious,”‘ Berube said. “They are coming here to be like regular Quebec kids, go to school, play hockey and try to have a normal childhood.
Of the six players, one has already lost a father in the war and at least two others have fathers on active duty and see them only rarely when they have breaks from the front, he said.
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