36 Febraury 14 • 2019
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Hockey Event Benefits
Jamie Daniels
Foundation
K
en Daniels has been the voice
of the Detroit Red Wings for
22 seasons, calling games as
the team’
s play-by-play announcer.
In the past few years, Daniels has
become a voice for something that
isn’
t a game. He’
s fighting the scourge
of opioid addiction in the country that
has claimed thousands of lives includ-
ing his son Jamie Daniels, who died
in 2016 at age 23 from an overdose of
heroin laced with fentanyl.
Last year, the same year Ken Daniels
was inducted into the Michigan Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame, he launched the
Jamie Daniels Foundation.
The foundation raises money to
help families afford the intensive
rehabilitation that’
s needed for a loved
one to beat an opioid addiction. It
also provides education, resources and
guidance.
The foundation will benefit from
an outdoor hockey event from 9 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at On
the Dunes at 2005 Haggerty Road
just south of North Pontiac Trail in
Commerce Township.
The Jamie Daniels Outdoor Hockey
Classic is a day of hockey, camarade-
rie, fundraising and awareness.
The event is sponsored by GLP &
Associates, a Farmington Hills-based
firm that focuses mainly on helping
educators achieve their financial goals,
and Detroit Sports Media.
One reason for the GLP &
Associates’
sponsorship of the Jamie
Daniels Outdoor Hockey Classic is
the company is celebrating its 50th
year in business this year. Another
reason is the relationship between Ken
Daniels and company director Adam
Szlamkowicz.
“This is a big year for our compa-
ny. Fifty years in business is no small
milestone,
” Szlamkowicz said. “We’
re
always giving back to the community,
but we don’
t publicize it. For our anni-
versary, we wanted to do something
special and invite the community.
”
Szlamkowicz said he got to know
Ken Daniels when he was an intern
and later an associate producer at Fox
Sports Detroit in the early 2000s.
“Here’
s the kind of person Ken
Daniels is,” Szlamkowicz said. “I took
a job in Dallas after I left Fox Sports
Detroit and after about a year there,
in 2007, I get a call one day.
“It’
s Ken. He’
s there to broadcast
a Red Wings-Dallas Stars game. He
says grab a nice pair of pants and a
nice jacket because he’
s taking me out
to dinner. He knew I didn’
t have any
family there, and he wanted to make
sure I had a nice evening. We had a
great dinner.”
After he heard about Jamie Daniels’
death, Szlamkowicz said, he gave Ken
Daniels a call to offer his condolences,
thoughts and prayers.
“I didn’
t know Jamie very well,
but some people at our company
did from playing hockey with him,”
Szlamkowicz said.
GLP & Associates has a hockey
team — Szlamkowicz says he’
s the
“old guy” on the team at age 39 —
and it will wrap up the Jamie Daniels
Outdoor Hockey Classic with a game
against the Detroit Red Wings alumni
team at 5 p.m.
Open skating and other games
also are on the schedule. Check out
the event’
s Facebook page for more
details.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5
for children, with proceeds benefiting
the foundation.
“We’
ll also raise money through
50/50 drawings, raffles and sponsor
ads from area businesses on the rink
dasher boards,” Szlamkowicz said.
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STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With Ken Daniels (center) are Alex Kocoves
(left) and Matthew DeSantos, CEO and
president of GLP & Associates.
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