Our Pre-Hockey Program is designed for the very beginning hockey player.  It is a developmental program that prepares players for travel youth hockey.  We focus on the basic skills involved in skating and playing in game-like situations.  At the end of each session an exhibition game will be scheduled to give kids a real feel for the game.  Once basic skills have been mastered, skaters will be invited to join one of our travel teams or, if young enough, our 1st-Year Mite program.  We do require that participants have the ability to skate forward. 

These are the main skills that will be focused on:

1. Sit on ice and stand up
2. Proper stance
3. March forward across the ice
4. Forward two-foot glide
5. Dip/squat
6. Scooter pushes/T-push
7. Forward swizzles
8. Snowplow stop
9. Backward skating
10. Skating forward using full strides
11. Forward on foot glides
12. Backward swizzles
13. Glide turns
14. Forward C – cuts on a circle
15. Hockey turns with speed
16. Forward slalom
17. Forward one foot pushes on a circle
18. Forward stop and starts
19. Forward crossover
20. Backwards C – cuts
21. Hockey stops
22. Transitions
23. Passing/shooting 

Games:  Torpedo, Tow Truck, Follow the Leader,
Duck-Duck-Goose, Red Light Green Light, Tag, Freeze Tag