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  • U16 Game Observations on Thursday

    U16 Game Observations on Thursday

    Very physical play today.  Kendal Coyne and Jordyn Burns both missed games due to ankle inuries from Thursday.  Dana Gallop left the game and appeared to have seperated a shoulder.  Audrey Hanmer left her game with a wrist injury. Blue jumped out to a 4-1...

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  • Day 5 – Morning

    Day 5 – Morning

    The focus for today’s morning session at both ages was backward skating and neural zone transition. After warming up, the 15′s worked on backward skating with an emphasis on edgework. This was followed by neutral zone transitions that focused on the D moving at speed...

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  • Day 4 – Afternoon (games)

    Day 4 – Afternoon (games)

    As you may have seen from my previous post, the U15 games are complete for today.  Overall the games had much different feels from each other but all the games were good.  The first game, Red vs. Black, was a very physical grinding game that...

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  • Game results 15′s – Final

    Game results 15′s – Final

    Quick game update: Black vs. Red – 5-4 Black wins in shootout Teal vs. White – 4-3 Teal comes from behind 3-1 to win Purple vs. Gold – 5-2 Gold wins

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  • Day 4 – Morning

    Day 4 – Morning

    The theme for the morning sessions is shooting.  The 16′s and 15′s pretty much did the same drills this morning.  The warm-ups consisted of about 30 minutes of skating. Full ice at speed following the circles, center ice only circles, etc. This was followed by...

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  • Day 3 – Afternoon

    Day 3 – Afternoon

    It’s only Monday afternoon and I’m hearing the girls are starting to get sore and are tired.  A good sign they are being worked hard and hopefully learning from all the great coaches and experience here at the camp.  I’m guessing the “off afternoon” for...

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  • Day 3 – Morning

    Day 3 – Morning

    Back at the rink on Day 3.  Today’s morning focus for the 15′s is puck handling, for the 16′s it’s similar but there was also a focus on skating.  Both groups had single team sessions on the ice for 50 minutes. As I mentioned above,...

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  • Day 1 & 2 Camp Photos

    Day 1 & 2 Camp Photos

    I finally posted some photos from the camp and they are listed below and on a separate page as listed on the left menu bar.  The photo opportunities at the ESL are very limited for spectators during the event so many of the photos are...

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  • Day 2 – Afternoon

    Day 2 – Afternoon

    It really misleading to say there was a morning and afternoon session from the sense of the spectator. Given there are only 2 rinks being used, the final teams from the morning sessions finish and the first teams from the afternoon session follow right after....

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  • Day 2 – Morning

    Day 2 – Morning

    The morning session here started at 7am on the ice for some teams. The lucky ones started at as late as 12:50. While not on the ice in the morning the teams have meetings and 1.5 hrs of off ice. Today on ice theme was...

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