Hockey school offers skills training and development for up and coming athletes
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Dozens of the young people from the tri-communities are busy this week learning new skills at the La Ronge Ice Wolves 2023 Hockey School.
The four-day camp began Monday and continues until Thursday at the Mel Hegland Uniplex. Ice Wolves Head Coach Kevin Kaminski explained 62 youth between the ages of five and 17 are participating, which is on par with previous years.
“On the ice, we have been doing powerskating. I think today’s game, with how fast it is, we are doing a lot of edge work, crossovers, forwards, backwards skating, just trying to make sure they have the best opportunity to keep improving during the season and to advance to the next level whenever that opportunity arises,” he said.
“We started doing some passing, shooting, tight turns with pucks, more edge work, so a whole lot of variety. All of the fundamentals of the game and then, off ice, we have been doing a dynamic warm up to start with and then we’ve done circuit training, especially just in the morning. Stuff that our players do. In the afternoon, the kids get a little tired, so we usually do a game of kickball or soccer, something a little more fun to reward them.”
