{"id":8529,"date":"2015-02-12T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:53:25","slug":"dhs-students-staff-have-blackout-in-honor-of-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/dhs-students-staff-have-blackout-in-honor-of-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS students, staff have blackout in honor of coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8544\" style=\"width: 3264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Student-Section.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8544\" src=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Student-Section.jpg\" alt=\"DHS students cheer on the hockey team Wed., Feb. 11 at Midland Civic Arena. DHS won in overtime with 4-3. Photo by Emily Collick\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Student-Section.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Student-Section-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Student-Section-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Student-Section-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DHS students cheer on the hockey team Wed., Feb. 11 at Midland Civic Arena. DHS won in overtime with 4-3. Photo by Emily Collick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Jan. 31, 2015, Dick Blasy Sr. lost his battle to liver and colon cancer. Blasy Sr. coached the DHS hockey team for 26 years, was a member of the Michigan High School Coaches Hall of Fame, and was known as the voice of Charger hockey after he retired from coaching. In honor of Blasy Sr., the\u00a0@DowStuSec Twitter page brought up the idea of having a blackout at school and at the Midland v. Dow varsity hockey game on Feb. 11, 2015 held at Midland Civic arena at 7:15 p.m. Blasy Sr. touched the lives of many of the students and staff of DHS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was always very inspirational, he was always motivating me to become a better player,&#8221; senior Cole Smith, a member of the 2014-2015 DHS hockey team, said.<\/p>\n<p>Blasy Sr.&#8217;s son, Coach Dick Blasy Jr. is a teacher at DHS and is also the head coach for the varsity hockey team. Blasy Jr. brought the Charger hockey team to 10 victories and five loses this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it\u2019s really nice of the students,&#8221; Blasy Jr. said\u00a0of the blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Even MHS\u00a0participated\u00a0in the blackout in honor of Blasy Sr. The Chargers brought home a victory over the Chemics after going into overtime ending the score 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the DHS hockey team <a title=\"DHS Athletics\" href=\"http:\/\/dowathletics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dowathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 31, 2015, Dick Blasy Sr. lost his battle to liver and colon cancer. Blasy Sr. coached the DHS hockey team for 26 years, was a member of the Michigan High School Coaches Hall of Fame, and was known as the voice of Charger hockey after he retired from coaching. In honor of Blasy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1248,"featured_media":8544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DHS students, staff have blackout in honor of coach - UPDATE ONLINE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/dhs-students-staff-have-blackout-in-honor-of-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DHS students, staff have blackout in honor of coach - UPDATE ONLINE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Jan. 31, 2015, Dick Blasy Sr. lost his battle to liver and colon cancer. 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