New York City and Long Island bar associations raise money in charity hockey game
Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department skates too
After the New York Islanders clinched a playoff spot by beating the Sabres at the Nassau Coliseum on Saturday, lawyers from New York City and Long Island faced off against each other and raised more than $10,000 in a charity hockey match.
Brooklyn attorney John Dalli, a member of the Columbian Lawyers Association and Catholic Lawyers Guild, helped to organize the event that was the idea of Queens attorney Joe Carola. Hon. Alan Scheinkman, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, skated for the New York City team.
“Joe Carola called me and told me that he was looking to put a charity hockey game together,” Dalli said. “The Coliseum agreed to let us have it here after an Islanders game if we sold a certain amount of tickets. We decided to make it New York City bar attorneys versus Long Island bar attorneys and we got a tremendous response. We ended up having a waiting list of players.”