MEA Camp 2025

With kids off school, our MEA Camp is an excellent way for skaters to develop their hockey and team skills both on and off the ice.

With a keen focus on skating and edge work, we develop our skating, passing, shooting, and compete levels, while enjoying the awesome game of hockey.

It's also an excellent opportunity for goalies to work on focused training with one of our highly experienced goalie coaches. Goalies receive goalie-specific training for the first 30-40 minutes of each ice session before being incorporated into various team drills for additional shots and guidance from our goalie coach.

In our dryland sessions, we continue our training by working on shooting, stickhandling, and passing, along with plyometrics, ladder/quick feet drills, and team building activities.

Please join us for growth and fun!

Overview

Goaltender-specific training - "Goalie Time" - will take place for approximately half of each Hockey Time session, (35-40 minutes per 75-minute ice time...times are adjusted appropriately for 60 minute sessions) typically starting about five minutes in. After Goalie Time is finished, goaltenders will take part in shooting drills and small-area games with the rest of the athletes in the program for the second half of the practice. The goalie coach will continue to watch and teach the goalies during these drills.

Philosophy

Goaltender training will be built upon the "Three Rs" principle: Ready, React, Recover. The young athletes will focus on concepts such as stance, positioning, reading plays, save selection, body control, and puck tracking. Everything that is done will be built off of a foundation of strong skating and crease movement - with an emphasis on full-body positioning (being square to the puck, hands in correct position, etc.) and good balance while moving.

What to Expect During Goalie Time

The first 5-10 minutes of each Goalie Time session will focus on goalie-specific skating, using movement drills that came directly from an NHL goalie coach. After that, goalies will face 5-10 minutes of warmup shots, to get their eyes calibrated to tracking pucks. From there, 20-25 minutes of shooting drills will emulate in-game situations/scenarios.

Goalie Mentality

In addition to working on the physical skills of the position, the young athletes will also be taught mental skills to help them succeed as goaltenders, as it's arguably the most mentally-challenging job in sports. Confidence and resilience techniques will be explored, as well as other mental tools - such as visualization and "training by watching".

How will the practices be structured?

We will spend 3/4 of our on-ice time focused on skill development and 1/4 of our time scrimmaging, doing battle drills, and/or playing short sided games. Skating/edge work will be a key focus, as we layer on other crucial skills. Having fun will be layered throughout.

Players will be divided appropriately for age/skill.