Sunday Morning Sessions

Dedicated to developing a better skilled, conditioned, game smart athlete.

Player Development Hour 7:30 AM (New Wilmot Recreation Centre - EAST PAD) - open for ages 6 to 14 yrs old

If one, two or all of your players would like to enhance their skills in power skating, puck handling, passing , shooting and understanding and reading plays on the ice then this hour would be perfect. The session will begin on Sundays at 7:30AM in New Hamburg and will last an hour long with high tempo and intense drills that will enhance all of their skill levels. The session will cost $25.00 per player and we will only be alotting 30 spots on the ice with 5 instructors. That is a 6:1 ratio which we know is more then competitive in our market. Players that are interested are to contact Tyler Ertel at tertel@hhtd.ca or at 519-884-3153.

Goaltender Development Hour 7:00 AM (New Wilmot Recreation Centre - WEST PAD) - open for ages 6 to 14 yrs old

If one or both of your goalies are looking to be trained by a goalie that played in the NHL and is great with kids then this is the hour for you. A variety of drills will be offered to all the kids and age appropriate styles and advice will be offered. The session will begin on Sundays at 7:00AM in New Hamburg and with drills that are appropriate for todays ever changing game. The session will cost $30.00 per player and we will be only alotting 15 spots on the ice with 5 instructors. That is a 3:1 ratio which we know is more then competitive in our market. Goaltenders that are interested are to contact Tyler Ertel at tertel@hhtd.ca or at 519-884-3153.

Powerskating Development

Power skating programs are created for all ages and abilities: Minor Hockey to Adult. The programs include training for explosive quickness and speed, agility, flexibility, strength, power and endurance.

Once a player reaches the Pee Wee or Bantam level, we are very careful not to change a player's skating. We make adjustments. We keep the group sizes small so that we can help players individually and thus, run drills that are specific to the needs for his/her improvement. Also, every athlete learns differently. Some of us learn visually, some verbally. By getting to know the athlete right away, we can easily identify this very important part of the learning process.
Some areas that we would work on are:

Skills Development

As long as youth programs/associations continue to concentrate on games at the expense of severly low practice time, the development of players with great offensive skills will continue to decline. Games are ways for players to show off the talent and skills that have been developed in practice. As coaches concentrate on offensive and defensive systems at the expense of teaching individual skills, the development of our young players is going to decline. In a quality hockey skills session with a six to one student/instructor ratio, every participant should have a puck in their control over 40 minutes per hour unlike in a game. Some of the areas that we would target are:

Goaltending Development

"Positioning is everything"
We believe that the basic fundamental of a goalies development is based on position. From Tyke aged beginning goalies to Pro athletes, all our students are taught to continually work towards improving their positioning skills. Stressing confident positioning is where all goalies start and is a good basic foundation to work on. Once positioning has been learned and demonstrated consistently our students are ready to start learning the mechanics of stance, movement, challenging shooters, rebound control, playing the puck, and directing play in the defensive zone. These are skills that with our highly experienced staff can contribute to the development of goaltenders aspiring to raise their game to a higher level.