Welcome to the Learn to Play Hockey and Skate 2007-08
Home Page
 Saturday
the 16th of February is our last Learn to Skate day. Learn
to play hockey last weekend is on the 23rd of February.
The cost for learn to play
is $325.00 (with $25.00 calendar reimbursement) and learn to
skate is $225.00 (with $25.00 calendar reimbursement).
Our season will begin play on
the 6th of October, 9:00 am for learn to skate and 10:00 am
for Learn to play hockey.
Click
Here for some parents info on learn to skate.
Our Future Stars
from 2006-07 Season
(click on a photo to enlarge the picture)
Our season has ended and everyone had a great time....We can hardly
wait for next year! Look for signups during the 2nd week of
September.
Quote of the week;
Dad (old) "Mel you raised your stick when the other team scored?"
Mel (4) "Dad that's what hockey players do when they score, you
should know that...."
Next year we are going to discuss the meaning of opponent...
Click
here for the 2006-07 game schedule
2007-08 registration information:
Our Learn to play and Skate
registration will be held on August 25th at 10:00 am - 12:00
PM. All our learn to play registrants will be offered a free
cross ice game at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. We will also offer
registration on September 4th, 5th (6-8 pm) and the 8th
(9-11 am) at the Armstrong Arena. The cost for learn to play
is $325.00 (with $25.00 calendar reimbursement) and learn to
skate is $225.00 (with $25.00 calendar reimbursement).
Click here for
our learn to play page.
Our season will begin play on
Saturday the 6th of October. Look for updates on the
web.
Our Learn to skate program will run on Saturday mornings at
9:00 am from Mid October through Mid February. This program will teach the
children fundamental skating skills. We have run this program for over
20 years. Our goal is to get the kids ready to play in our cross ice
program.
Welcome to an exciting new hockey season. We are offering,
for our third year; Our learn to play hockey cross ice. We will continue to offer two days of instruction
per week; On Tuesday's at 5:30 pm, we will have our teams skills
sessions throughout the year. On weekend mornings (either
Saturday or Sunday) we will have our cross ice games.
This is a change from our full ice program offered in the past; but
we believe along with USA hockey that this is the way to teach the
game and get the kids ready for our other hockey programs. This will
be a 3 on 3 (with goalies) during two games, and small nets on the the
other cross ice game. The kids will be on the
ice a lot more, touch the puck more often, and they will have a great
time while learning a great game.
USA Hockey has been recommending that all associations move to
cross-ice play at the Mite level for several years now.
In no other major sport do 20-year olds and 6-year olds play on the
same size playing surface. Football, basketball, baseball, soccer and
most other sports play on reduced surfaces appropriate to the size of
the players and their capabilities. There is a great deal of research
available showing that kids have the puck on their stick an incredibly
short amount of time in any given youth hockey game (on the order of
30 seconds or so). The purpose of playing cross-ice is to compress the
amount of space in which the game is played, in order to force the
players into closer contact with each other. There are a number of
important benefits to compressing the ice surface:
- Shorter distances mean harder, crisper, quicker passes.
- Reducing the distances allows the player to skate full-out for
the entire shift.
- Compressing the surface requires players to learn to stickhandle
or risk losing the puck.
- Reduced area forces more passes, and quicker passes, in order to
advance the puck.
- Compressed areas allow more players to touch the puck every
shift.
- A surface without blue lines encourages more creative play and
discourages "systems", "dump-ins", and similar restrictive
practices.
- Smaller surfaces result in more shots on goal, and increased
opportunities for goaltenders to play the puck.
- Compressed areas require the skater to work to find open ice,
and learn to "read the ice" better.
- Smaller surfaces require quicker decision-making, and encourage
creativity.
- Smaller teams mean more shifts per game.
- Better ice utilization reduces cost of playing.
- Shorter surfaces force players to work on their starts and stops
more often.
- Defensemen become more involved in the play, as opposed to
"right field syndrome".
We believe that compressed ice surfaces promote better skill
development, better skating skills, better puck-handling, increased
"team play", and promote creativity. Players learn how to carry the
puck through traffic, how to pass quicker and with more power, how to
get open for the pass, how to make quick decisions, and many other
skills which are sorely lacking in older divisions in US Hockey.
Hockey is not a sport like soccer, which anyone who owns a ball can
play with just a few minutes instruction. It requires long hours of
skill development to even begin to play hockey reasonably well.
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