Off-Season On-Ice Skills and Conditioning

Acceleration Programs

Good skating and skating fitness are essential for hockey success. The Peak Acceleration program is designed to help young skaters improve their skating ability and build speed and on ice fitness. Using age and developmentally appropriate skating drills and progressions, built around the work and rest ratios common to hockey, players are challenged in all aspects of their skating. Small group work with 4-5 skaters per coach means that your child will receive individual attention and correction that is unmatched in other programs. Pre and post program on ice speed and agility testing will help athletes and parents gauge their improvement and assess strengths and weaknesses.

     Novice/Atom                        Peewee/Bantam

Semi-Private Shooting, Scoring and Puck Skills

Peak Centre is pleased to announce the launch of our Semi Private Shooting/Scoring and Puck Skill program. Each session focuses on the process and underlying skills of shooting, scoring and puck handling rather than focusing solely on outcome. This approach is a more effect means of teaching that helps a player understand their game, strengths and weaknesses, providing them with the skills and knowledge to analyze their game and make corrections. By repeating corrected movements and utilizing cognitive training techniques as well as small area skills manipulation each player will develop the scoring skills needed to become an elite player.

Major Novice/Min Atom       Major Atom/Peewee         Bantam/Midget/Jr. Prep

Speed, Agility, Acceleration

In a typical hockey shift a player will experience 3-4 bursts of hard skating that last 2-3 seconds at a time. Players with the ability to reach top speed in a short period of time have a definite advantage over their opponents. Using cutting edge training techniques like over speed training, post activation potentiation, assisted and resisted sprinting and anaerobic alactic conditioning this session is designed to improve first step quickness, acceleration, top end speed and speed endurance. By employing equipment typically used in dry land sessions, speed chutes, hurdles etc., on the ice we are able to continually change up the stimulus the athlete receives and ensure their continued progress. On ice speed and agility testing will be done in the first session and repeated at the end of the program so that athletes can see how much they have improved.

            Peewee                            Bantam/Midget                 Junior Prep.

Goalie Skills and Conditioning

The PEAK Centre Goalie Skills and Conditioning Program has been developed to address the specific positional and conditioning needs of goalies. Utilizing their own section of the ice, goalies will be set through a series of positional and movement related drills.

      Novice/Atom                      Peewee/Bantam            Midget/Junior Prep.

Semi-Private Power Skating

Success in hockey starts with sound skating technique, even the pros use skating coaches and skating analysis to improve their body position, skating mechanics and technique. The Peak Centre is now offering a semi-private detailed skating development program. Our master skating coach Pat Malloy will discuss and drill key positions and changes that need to be made in order to accelerate your game and help correct technical errors. 

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One Week Competitive Camps

An intense and complete full day camp that includes 4 hours of ice time, dryland conditioning, and hockey educational lectures will help get you ready for tryouts. Camps are available for age groups Novice through Midget Junior Prepartion and use Long Term Athlete Development principals and progressions to ensure that each athlete is doing the drills and progressions suitable for their stage of development. A typical day on ice will consist of 1 hour of on ice acceleration and conditioning, 1 hour of game situation drilling, 1 hour of Puck Skill development and 1 hour of game play to help translate the day’s learning into game situations. A complete itinerary, including drop-off and pick-up times will be sent via email closer to the starting of camps.

Week 1: July 30th to August 3rd
Atom Advanced
Atom Advanced (Goalie)
Peewee Advanced 
                       Peewee Advanced (Goalie)

Week 2: August 7th to August 10th
Atom/Minor Peewee Semi-Private Defensemen
Major Peewee/Bantam Semi-Private Defensemen

Week 3: August 13th to August 17th
Minor Bantam Advanced
Minor Bantam Advanced (Goalie)
Bantam/Midget Advanced 
                       Bantam/Midget Advanced (Goalie)

Week 4: August 20th to August 24th

Novice/Minor Atom Advanced 
Novice/Minor Atom Advanced (Goalie)