sports » NEW MERCHANDISE ARRIVING DAILY Ice Hockey Debuts At Maccabi Steve Stein | Contributing Writer Dylan Resnick is captain of the first Detroit Maccabi ice hockey team. Michael Potocsky, Miles Berlin, Ryan Berke and Spencer Blatt. Nate Resnick, Ira Schlussel and Ethan Weinfeld are assistant coaches. Joining the Detroit team in Stamford will be two teams from Toronto along with teams from Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Long Island, Ft. Lauderdale, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Orange County, Calif. Each team will play four pool games Monday, Aug. 8, and Tuesday, Aug. 9. Detroit will meet Philadelphia, Sid Jacobson JCC (Long Island), Fort Lauderdale and East Bay JCC (San Francisco area). The teams will be seeded No. 1-12 after pool play. The top four teams each will receive a bye in the first round of bracket competition. Four games between the remaining eight teams Wednesday, Aug. 10, will set up quarterfinal games later that day. Semifinals, championship and third- place games will be played Thursday, Aug. 11, with gold, silver and bronze medal winners determined. Games will be no checking because of the age range of the players. So how did ice hockey join the Maccabi Games’ roster of sports? Cohen said Stamford doesn’t have a venue for inline hockey and is an ice hockey community, so discussions began about offering ice hockey instead of inline hockey in Stamford. As it turned out, ice hockey is essen- tially replacing inline hockey, a longtime Maccabi Games sport, this year. Inline hockey won’t be held at any of the three Maccabi Games sites. The other sites are Columbus, Ohio, and St. Louis. “Now that we’ve got ice hockey start- ed, I see it growing as a Maccabi Games sport,” Ehrlich said. “It’s all U16 this year. It would be great to add a U14 division and a girls’ division, too.” Stamford also is hosting ArtsFest. About 1,500 youngsters will be com- peting in sports and participating in ArtsFest in the community, located about 35 miles from New York City. * Please send sports news to stevestein502004@yahoo.com. STONE'S JEWELRY 6881 Orchard Lake Rd. on the Boardwalk (248) 851-5030 www.stonesfi nejewelry.com 2088400 I t’s safe to say ice hockey has exploded onto the JCC Maccabi Games scene. Twelve teams — including one from Detroit — and more than 200 play- ers ages 12-16 from across the United States and Canada will compete in ice hockey next week in Stamford, Conn., in the sport’s first year at the Maccabi Games. The Maccabi Games began in 1983 and have been held almost every year since then. “We’ve been blown away by the inter- est in ice hockey. We had no idea this many Jewish kids played the sport,” said Marla Cohen, communications man- ager for the New York City-based JCC Association, which oversees the Maccabi Games along with the Maccabi World Union. “Everyone has been pleasantly surprised by the turnout,” said Steve Ehrlich, ice hockey commissioner for the Maccabi Games in Stamford. Mark Weiss is coach of the Detroit ice hockey team. He has 18 players on his roster, the maximum allowed. “We had to cut players; 30 players showed interest in joining our team,” he said. Ten forwards, six defensemen and two goalies will represent Detroit in Stamford. Three lines have been put together plus a “floating” forward, Weiss said. There are three defensive pairs and the goalies will alternate games. Team try- outs and practices have been held at the Farmington Hills Ice Arena. “What’s great is we have kids from all over the area and all skill levels … travel, high school and house teams,” Weiss said. “We have the talent to compete in Stamford, but we know this will be a challenging tournament.” Detroit’s captain is forward Dylan Resnick, 15, a sophomore at Groves High School in Beverly Hills. “It was an easy decision for me to name Dylan our captain,” Weiss said. “He’s a team leader. He helps our team be a team.” Also on the Detroit roster are Blake Salesin, Cameron Young, Daniel Zalesin, Eric Gal, Gabe Barish, Gabe Schlussel, Henry Schwartz, Isaac Mintz, Jeremy Kahan, Jonah Greenblatt, Marcus Frankel, Matt Segall, Matthew Jasgur, Overwhelmed by caring for an aging family member? Pam Feinberg-Rivkin RN, BSN, CCM, CRRN, ABDA Interventionist Founder & CEO We Can Help More than just home care... Our professionals will coordinate and support all of your needs Call: 248.702.6510 Care Managers: b Holistic Assessments b Detailed Plans b Management of Care b Oversight and Monitoring Caregivers: b Companionship b Help Around the Home b Meal Prep for Special Diets b Attending Appointments For additional services visit: www.BridgewayCare.net 2000430 August 4 • 2016 47