Reply To: Jasper Camp

Here is the outline for our last session. They had 3 ice times a day except Wed. when they white water rafted in the morning. So in the week they got 6 hockey sessions and 6 power skating sessions.

About half the kid's stayed in the dorm at the arena and half at home or camping with their parents. The figure skating groups was about 9 girls and they were on the ice 3 times a day. Everyone had a off ice conditioning session with Gaston just before dinner.

13 min. Older players partner with younger players and work with them on puck handling, passing, shooting. Check their grip. I gave a quick review of keypoints while all were on one knee in the middle circle. I did this peer coaching the last 3 of the 6 sessions.
7 min. 3 big figue 8's, one in each zone skating down the ice and finish with a shot then come back down the boards. Goal is to loosen the shoulders. First 8 the puck is only on the forehand part of the blade, second 8 only on the backhand. Third 8 quick hands and feet facing the far end all the time.

15 min. D7 formation with 4 small nets, two on each goal line. Rink is divided into 4 areas. Smallest kid's game of 5-5, kid's up to 12 game of 5-5, bantam and midgets at the far end one game of 4-4 and one of 5-5. Players had to take the puck outside of the zone and everyone get onside on transition. Players must follow the rules or the other team gets the puck. at least 2 passes are needed.

Game one: only backward skating.
Game two: bantam and midgets-skating on one leg only. Younger groups-flat footed scootering.
Game three: you must take at least 3 hard strides before a pass or shot.

We used many rules throughout the week. 2" only, only forehand passes, you must make an escape move when you get the puck. We also did some D400 transition games with the older groups.

Last 25 minutes. D100. Two younger groups combined and played 10-10 full ice and the older groups combined 9-9 with the rule there must be at least one pass in each zone. Shifts were one minute and they left the puck where it was on the whistle and everyone changed on the go. We did the full ice game the last 3 ice sessions first 15 min. then 20 then 25 min. The passing rule causes players to skate hard to get open and the big teams cause players to move to open space quickly when they get the puck.