TRAINING STYLE IS PLAYING STYLE.

At Hockey Club, we train to simultaneously develop hockey skills and playing style. Our training style is designed with fun, athleticism, and competitive play as its core principles. Because more play results in more smiles.

If you want to improve, one, two, or even three ice times per week just isn’t enough. In fact, the majority of effective player development actually happens off the ice, especially for young athletes.

We believe that a young hockey player’s confidence and overall enjoyment of the sport are defined by three fundamental factors: skating, puck skills (stickhandling and shooting), and passion for the game (often defined by compete level and internal fire). We can help with all of these. But for a young hockey player just learning to skate, coordinating these skills can be overwhelming, frustrating, and even counterproductive.

That’s why our philosophy is different. While skating can happen only on the ice, stickhandling, shooting, and hockey passion can be developed off the ice. Therefore, by managing these skills separately and in different environments, especially at younger ages and beginning stages, we can help create more confident, skilled hockey players. By working hard and having fun off the ice, the natural translation of skills to the on ice game is seamless. 

We’re confident that you will enjoy your training and that your skills will improve. We set our players up for success. When they step on the ice and the puck drop drops, we know that they will be confident and ready to play. Because more skills and more confidence always equals more fun.

HCKY CLB MANIFESTO

We believe more hockey leads to better hockey.

We believe that work is play.

We believe in hockey culture and take pride in our own culture creation and curation.

We believe that skill development is built upon skating, puck skills, and shooting, but we also believe that these skills can be developed separately and coordinated in time.

We believe that the best ice hockey players are those that play hockey off the ice because playing more hockey in different forms exponentially accelerates development.

We believe that success is not measured by wins and losses, but rather, success is measured by development and fun.

We believe in defining how we play: we play fast, we want the puck, we communicate, we create options, we maximize opportunities for creativity.

We believe that hockey players learn, embody, and display humility, integrity, courage, toughness, grit, perseverance, character, work ethic, respect, teamwork, sportsmanship, community, goodness, confidence, critique, punctuality, discipline, humor, athleticism, and intelligence.

We believe that the toughest game plan to defend is creativity.

We believe that style is a requirement: look good, play good.

We believe in early ice times and short, hard shifts.

We believe in playoff hockey, especially Game 7.

We believe that great players make other players better.

We believe that teammates are family.

We believe that hockey is more.