36 Febraury 14 • 2019
jn

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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