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Former Police Chief Reviewing Saskatchewans Coroners System

AM800-NEWS-HUMBOLDT-GETTY-1.3746169 Flowers are left outside the Humboldt Uniplex ice-skating rink on April 7, 2018 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a semi-trailer truck near Tisdale and Nipawin, Saskatchewan province, killing 14 people. Hockey-mad Canada was in mourning on Saturday after a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a semi-trailer truck in Saskatchewan province, killing 14 people.In a country where love of the sport is almost a religion, the crash sparked an outpouring of grief among players and fans on social media, while national political leaders expressed their sympathies."We can now confirm 14 people have died as a result of this collision," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement, which did not say how many of the victims were players or coaches of the Humboldt Broncos team. / AFP PHOTO / Kymber RAE (Photo credit should read KYMBER RAE/AFP/Getty Images) (Flowers are left outside the Humboldt Uniplex ice-skating rink on April 7, 2018 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a semi-trailer truck near Tisdale and Nipawin, Saskatchewan province, killing 14 people. (KYMBER RAE/AFP/Getty Images))

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Review comes after two players were misidentified

Saskatchewan's coroner's system is being reviewed after the Humboldt Broncos bush crash.

A coroner involved in the incident says it wasn't until an injured player woke up in hospital that officials realized there had been a big mistake.

Wayne Nogier also says he ordered the dental records of Xavier Labelle when the young man's name was prematurely released as being among those killed in the crash.

He says before the dental records arrived, Labelle woke up in hospital and had been misidentified as his teammate, Parker Tobin.

Nogier says he doesn't know who made the decision to release Labelle's name as among the dead — only that it wasn't official and he didn't sign off on it.

The junior hockey team had been on its way to a playoff game when its bus and a semi truck collided at a rural intersection - 16 people on the bus were killed.

— with files from The Canadian Press