William Howard Williams

My deepest condolences to the Williams family. As one of his former hockey players, I have very fond memories of Mr. Williams as our coach and of course playing alongside David. May he rest in peace.

Mr Williams was my peewee hockey coach for the Rockets .He was a great coach and a better mentor ..My deepest condolences to the family .

Mr Williams changed my life. I was a goalie on 3 of his teams. 1977-78 we were the district and regional champions. 1979-80 We were the district regional champions and became the 1st group of all Nj kids to make the national semi finals 3rd in the nation. Mr Williams taught us as 9-10 year olds losing is a bad habit. Mr Williams proved you don't have to yell to get results. Mr Williams didn't make things easy on you 1979 exibition game we were getting slaughtered by Oyster Bay I kept looking over to him he called me over Mr Williams "Arin you aren't coming out we will get better. We would lose 2 games the rest of the year to USA teams going into the nationals. All I ever wanted was to make Mr Williams happy in once epic game vs Johnstown in championship game we were up 1-0 (they were great team) kid had puck in slot and rifled it top shelf I calmly raised my waffle and knocked it away. On the bus Mr Williams "man I said to myself the score is tied and like it was nothing you raised your blocker great save". One game one of the few I was sitting out we were losing to a team we shouldn't of Mr Williams called his son David and amazing player grabbed him and said "DAVID SCORE" and he did.Max Middendorf who made the NHL called Mr Williams the nicest coach he ever had. Mr Williams was a great coach and a better man. TO BILL WILLIAMS WHO'S HARD WORK A DETERMINATION MADE HIM A WINNING COACH. Heaven hockey team has just won the lotterty. Your former goalie Arin Krich