Squirt / U10

Our on-ice training focuses on the development of the fundamental skills and game situations needed in hockey through speed, intensity, small area games, battles and competitions. In addition, we include individual skill development to better allow our athletes the ability to incorporate their skills into overall development and game situations created during on-ice training.

• Focus on all Hockey Skills
• Skating, shooting, passing, puckhandling
• Skating Quickness, Speed, and Agility
• Improve Players' Ability to Play Smart and Hard in all kinds of Game Situations
• Hockey IQ and Game Concepts
• Change of Direction Skating Mechanics (crossovers, tight turns, pivots)
• Game/Competition Day- Every other Friday

Our focus is based on the development of hockey-specific skills and functional movement. Training will focus on shooting strength, technique and accuracy, stickhandling, slideboard stride power and development, and first step quickness. In addition to skills, developing the athlete's awareness of their body in space as they grow through low-intensity, body-weighted, functional movement in association with the seven primal movement patterns; squat, lunge, push, pull, twist, bend, and gait.

• Shooting (mechanics, accuracy, quick release, vision)
• Stickhandling
• Speed Ramp
• Slideboards (form, stride strength, multi-tasking)
• Functional Movement
• Speed, Agility, and Quickness