Thank you for your interest in the U14AA Seeded team and attending the player evaluations starting on Monday April 28th.
The coaching staff for the U14 AA team is extremely excited to get started.
Our coaching
philosophy is based on ensuring that all members of the team experience
enjoyment and excitement while competing on and off the ice. While emphasis is
placed on developing both player’s hockey skills and personal enrichment, we
will also be focusing on the process of competition, dealing with the
psychology both winning and losing and the requirements necessary to be
successful in this process. Our focus will be on work ethic, fair play, and teamwork,
while maintaining a passion for the game of hockey. We intend to incorporate
the lessons that we have learned over our many years of playing and coaching hockey.
The game of hockey is constantly evolving. The coaching staff has to evolve our strategies, tactics, and development season planning in order to keep pace with an every changing game. The coaching staff has accumulated120 years of coaching and playing experience, including experience at the junior, university and AAA and AA levels.
This upcoming season we will continue to have sessions with Heroic Minds, enriching player mental health development. We will have professional dryland training weekly sessions, team structure and skills including video sessions at Queensmount arena. We will continue to have power skating and edge work development, professional goalie development in addition to our regular goalie coach. All of these development tools will be aimed at player and team growth.
Please be
assured that we will be seeking to play more challenging competitors, stressing
a fast pace of play, team passing and player/team non-puck on ice positioning.
Strong
emphasis will be placed on positive reinforcement and team building, while having
fun, making new friends on the ice and in the dressing room. Demands will be placed on each player to work
hard, play well & clean competitive hockey, and consistently give their
best effort. Our goal of improving individual
player’s skill, and improving team play etc. will not only produce better
hockey players, but better future community-minded citizens.
This is a
journey for both the players and the coaching staff, and the goal is to improve
not only every player but each coach as well by the end of the season.
Our team calendar will include lots of team building activities, scheduled practices, extra practice times, exhibition games, dryland training, power skating and exciting tournaments. The tournaments for this upcoming season are the Hespeler Shamrocks Early Bird, a trip to the Capital Fall Classic in Ottawa, the Waterloo Memorial Tournament, the Toronto Aero's Winter Challenge and The South Simcoe Storm Classic.
The coaching staff would like to mention that we are not just looking at talent during these player evaluations. We are looking at those players that are hard workers in practice, show altruistic behavior, have great attitudes, give relentless effort, listen well and possess a never give up mind set. Also, we are looking for great teammates both on and off the ice, and players that are committed to team play and team accomplishments over individual rewards.
Further details regarding the U14AA evaluations will be posted on this web page closer to the starting date of April 28th.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing everyone at evaluations!
Randy