On-Ice Training - Daily Ice Time 
Each student receives 3 hours of ice time daily beginning on Monday morning with demanding combination drills and station training. The 3 hours daily are divided into sessions on skating, puck handling, checking (when applicable), team play development, and a daily controlled instructional scrimmage. The use of station training and flow drills allow for a low student to teacher ratio and keeps participation and movement at a maximum. |
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Skating Dynamics and the Student's Development
Skating is the most important single skill in hockey. Our staff will use the most modern innovative teaching techniques to improve posture, skating efficiency, stride, balance, arm movement, recovery, and more. |
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Skills and Team Play
During the sessions each day, the athlete will be taken through a progression of skills in stick handling, passing, shooting and checking as well as a variety of team play strategies. All skills are taught in a position specific manner maximizing the benefits for the forwards and defensemen. |
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Controlled Scrimmage
Each afternoon the players will participate in a controlled scrimmage with the coaches reinforcing the teaching of the day. On Friday afternoon each team will play a final match under game conditions. Teams are properly matched to insure the development of each participant. As the players age the scrimmages will become more competitive. |
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On Ice Testing
On ice tests are conducted with the results compared to norms established from past results. Players will receive their results at the end of the week. |
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Goaltending
Goaltending is a game of situations. All great goaltenders have a strong fundamental base. Our goalie coach will provide lots of attention in working with the goaltenders during their on ice sessions to stress fundamentals and game situations to improve each goalies skills and mental development in each area. |
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Off-Ice Training - Daily Dry Land Sessions
Through the use of a variety of exercises and games, each student will develop their conditioning, agility, and skills that translate to on-ice improvement. |
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Daily Classroom Sessions
Each group will have a daily session including the use of specifically developed game instructional videos, along with team and individual concepts, rules, sportsmanship, systems and avenues of combining higher education with ice hockey. In these sessions the importance of living a healthy lifestyle will emphasized through health and wellness. |
