Ashar Hockey 2007 Mid Season Video

Ashar Heads to the Semi Finals

Three huge goals helped catapult Ashar to yet another school record, becoming the first ever Ashar Hockey Team to head to the leagues Semi Finals.

It was another great game to watch as Ashar took on the Westchester Day School Wild. Both team serious "up and comers" in a normally Long Island teams dominated league.

Earlier in the season the Wild handed Ashar their first loss of this season. That game seemed to be the wake-up call that the Ashar players needed this season. If Ashar was going to win games, it needed to have only one speed; Hustle.

Yesterday once again Ashar showed they had hustle, grit and determination in the 3-2 playoff victory over Westchester.

The game could have gone either way in this see-saw battle. Both teams equally balanced.

The difference, Ashar game MVP Yoni Winfield, who once again had an amazing performance in front of our net.

The games big goals supplied by Joey Katz, Donny Fuchs and Daniel Silvermintz with the stunning game winner late in the third.

Special mention goes to the fans who made the trip to Westchester to cheer Ashar on. It made all the difference. We hope to see you again next week on Long Island when Ashar Faces HANC in the Semi Finals.

A Sign of Big Things Coming to Ashar Hockey

Ashar Hockey welcomes it's latest corporate sponsor. A Vice President of a Pittsburgh based startup company called Wallhogs emailed us a few weeks back saying;

"I stumbled upon your website and was amazed by your charitable activities. It is so important to give back and what your organization has achieved is to be praised. The support your organization has given to the Alan T. Brown Foundation is so very impressive that I was called to action."

Ashar Hockey looks to be involved in "big things", and the Wallhogs company makes big things.

Wallhog's specializes in custom large prints made from photos or artwork. Their life size enlargements printed on either reusable vinyl, glossy poster paper or fine art canvas are simply spectacular and make for very original and impressive conversation pieces in schools, businesses or at home.

Shortly a Wallhogs print of the 2007 Ashar Hockey team (hopefully with a caption "Playoff Champs" or better) will be hung in our school gym curtiousy of the Wallhog company, and you will be able to see for yourself the quality of this their product.

I would encourage everyone to visit Wallhogs.com and consider giving their fast and easy online service a try fpr business or personal use. I trust you will be glad you did.

Ashar Hockey welcomes Wallhog's as a corporate sponsor and thanks them for their kind words and actions of support.

Ashar Team Responds Quickly

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All season long Coach Dave yelled at the team, ran them hard till they dropped and flattened players against the boards with 200 lbs body checks.

At last weeks practice, forward Jason Klein's stick "accidentally" got a tad bit too high and struck coach Dave smack across the bridge of his nose, cutting the coach.

The members of the Ashar Team responded quickly to the emergency, and with in minutes of the incident voted unanimously to make Jason Klein this years Ashar Hockey Most Valuable Player.

Congratulations to Jason for his outstanding stick work, and for accomplishing what so many on the team have only dreamed of.

ESPN Player of the Week

Hockey practice for Ashar began back in October. This year a lot of kids in our school who never played hockey before decided to try out for the hockey team.

In order to really excel in hockey you really have to grasp an understanding of the concepts of position. Without that understanding an entire team chases the puck around and around like a flock of chickens.

If a rookie player picks up that concept early he then can begin to focus on improving his game.

This week's Player of The Week worked hard to learn all he could about hockey. Needing to understand all aspects of the sport, this player asked 64,385 questions this season. For the most part coaches try to answer them all. Though we still are researching his question; "what type of foam is used in the pads on the wall of the gym."?

Ari Minsky could have won player of the week just about every week this season. During all our scrimmages Ari is all hustle. It was early in the season that Ari's hockey stick wore out and he needed to buy a new one. That's how hard he plays.

Always eager to get on the court. Always eager to help the coaches set up. Always eager to be everyone's linemate.

This weeks ESPN's Ashar Hockey Player of the Week and one of my favorite personalities on the team; ARI MINSKY.

From rookie to raising star. Great work all season, Ari.