Art by Jeff Quigley.

The Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament will be held once again from June 3rd – 5th, 2016 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

For the 8th straight time, the VASHL will be participating in its own private division with Kevin Smith fans from all over the world playing in honor of Walter Gretzky and to raise money for the Ontario Lung Association.

Next year we aim to field more View Askew themed teams than we ever have before.

If you’re interested in making the trek to Canada next year and playing some street hockey with some awesome folks, then drop us an email at info@vashl.com. All levels of skill and experience are welcomed.

By Carrie Moran
Clerks

I’m slightly delayed in this post as I should have done it a month ago. One might say I’ve been distracted, or busy, or something.

Regardless, last month was the 2015 iteration of the Walter Gretzkey Street Hockey Tournament which I participated in last year. This year the tournament was moved to June, I was a co-captain of a team and a referee. What a crazy weekend!

Things kicked off on the Friday again with me providing transportation for the designated shopper. I wasn’t scheduled to referee that night but I did have two games to play in. The first with my team, the Clerks. We play in the View Askew Street Hockey League (VASHL) which came to be thanks to a whole lot of dedicated fans of Kevin Smith.

The second game was with Wally’s Warriors. This team was made of of players from the other nine VASHL teams so that we could have a 10 team division. We pulled a tie off in that game and I was sooo close to deflecting the ball in with only seconds to go but it wasn’t meant to be.

Much of the rest of the weekend was a blur. I was running between different rinks, there were 14 in total, to either play or referee. Unfortunately that led to my complete lack of photos so thank heavens all my VASHL pals are pleased to share. Including one of me actually appearing to be somewhat involved in the game on Saturday. (note: you can see a larger version of any picture by clicking on it.

There were a couple of other fun things over the weekend. On the Saturday night my sister and I popped by the VASHL festivities for the award presentations. Good thing too as we had to scoop up the MVP awards for the Clerks and the Mings to take back to the local people who won them. It also gave me a chance to get this great photo of the cake.

The most amusing thing though was Friday night. We were done and packing up to leave when the office door opened and in walked Mr Walter Gretzky himself. He had to tell us all stories and hang around chit chatting before we could go. He liked my hockey jersey so much I had to get a photo with him.

Via bxryrns.wordpress.com

The VASHL in partnership with Ball Hockey International will be selling t-shirts to fundraise for a college fund for a VASHL family who recently lost a loved one to colon cancer.

They will be white shirts with a blue logo on them in recognition and support of Colon Cancer Canada, a national organization dedicated to saving lives through increasing public awareness of colorectal cancer and access to screening, funding research initiatives, and providing colorectal cancer patient support.

Contact Jim Edelston at jim@vashl.com to request information on ordering one.

The View Askew Street Hockey League is very proud to announce the addition of two new teams for the 2016 Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament.

Jody Simpson is leaving the LA Mings to lead the Salsa Sharks.

Gavin ap’Morrygan is leaving the Leonardo Reapers after six seasons to head up the new Golgothans franchise.

Both teams are searching for new players to fill spots for next year’s tournament. Email info@vashl.com for more information.