Posts About "11 Day Power Play"

11 Day Power Play Is Trading a Puck for a Ball

August 18th, 2020 Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 7 pm, the puck, er, rather the ball will be dropped to start the 2020 edition of the 11 Day Power Play Community Shift, dubbed the Big Save. Instead of ice hockey, this year’s event originally slated to run from July 8-19, has evolved into an outside street hockey game held at Buffalo RiverWorks in downtown...

The 11 Day Power Play: Cancer Doesn’t Stop During a Quarantine, Neither Will We

May 11th, 2020 While the world has stopped, schools have closed their doors for the rest of the year and all but essential businesses have shut down, cancer doesn’t care. Cancer doesn’t care about social distancing. It won’t temporarily pause and wait until this crisis is over. It’s a deadly disease that has no regard for anyone's...

The 11 Day Power Play: Warming Hearts on and off the Ice

July 13th, 2019 Mike Lesakowski played a shift with his son, Liam. (courtesy of Jeff Tracy) It wasn’t much of a surprise that it took two postponed phone calls and several text messages before I finally caught up with Mike Lesakowski, co-founder of the 11 Day Power Play. And even when I eventually did track him down, he was on the go in his car....

The 11 Day Power Play: Bigger Than Ever

July 3rd, 2019 Her voice sounded a little tired, but there’s no doubt her passion and commitment were as strong as ever. “I think the ongoing support of this amazing city and just meeting amazing people that want to be a part of the 11 Day Power Play keep us energized,” said Amy Lesakowski, executive director and co-founder of the event. “We...