As the community gathered Tuesday night to honor the lives lost during the shooting at a high school hockey game, one of the coaches described the impact its had on his team.

“[Monday] night, our safe space, our home, was violated and my boys are hurting,” Blackstone Valley Schools (BVS) Hockey Coach Chris Librizzi said.

“My coaching staff is hurting right now and we are just trying to come together as a family unit, because we are a family,” he continued. “We love these boys like they’re our own and we’re just coming together as one with love to defeat the negativity that has been brought upon us and just to be together.”