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Training & Development Opportunities

Lakeville North Girl’s Hockey Skate with the PANTHERS

Lakeville North Girl’s Coach Buck Kochevar and Staff

Summer 2024

High School/U15

Ames Arena

Focusing on developing confidence in skating, edge control and balance, stick and puck control through drills and scrimmages.  Focus will also include quick feet drills, working with and without the puck, increasing hand and eye coordination while executing drills on the ice. 

Every Wednesdays will be POWER SKATING for 1 hour.  

HIGH SCHOOL/U15- Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Thursdays.  7:00am till 8:00. (ice only).  

June- 11,12,13,18,19,20,25,26,27

*Pat Forte Tourney at Ames Rink June 21-23 ($10 per game)

July-9,10,11,16,17,18,23,24,25

Also, July will be going to Farmington Summer Tourney 3 games (Dates and times coming)

Cost is $550.00 (Before June 14th)  Goalies are $250.  10% discount for siblings.  Registrations and payment should be sent to Robert “Buck” Kochevar, 8886 196th St. W Lakeville, MN 55044

Contact Information:

Buck Kochevar: 952-715-8297 (cell)

Buck.kochevar@isd194.org

 

Lakeville North Boys Spring & Summer Camp

Spring

Dates: 

April 8th – May 15th, 2024

Skates and workouts will be on Monday and Wednesday nights at Ames 1

Squirts/PeeWee - 4:30

Bantam - 5:40

Cost:

$480

To register/pay: Venmo coach Jake Taylor @strappnde. Please incl. the camp name and your players first/last name. Registration deadline is February 29th.

For questions: call coach Jake Taylor @ 952-250-7730 or email headcoach@lakevillenorthhockey.com

Summer

STP

  • Bantam - 4 days per week on/off ice; dryland – 9:45 am on ice – 10:30am Mon > Thurs
  • Squirt?PeeWee - 3 days per week on/off ice
    • PW - 10:55am Dryland 11:40am on ice Mon, Tues, Thurs
    • Squirt – 12:05pm Dryland 12:50 on ice Mon, Thurs and 10:55 dryland 11:40 on ice on Wednesday
  • Mite - 2 days per week on/off ice; 12:05pm Dryland 12:50pm on ice Tues, Wednesday

  • Focus on Ice - Individual skill development in passing, shooting, stick skills, and skating. We'll also focus on the small area games and drills that create creative thinking and problem solving. The culture of North Hockey and team concepts will also be woven in.
  • Focus off ice - We will focus on strength and speed improvement. New this year will be a one day a week of classroom time where we will watch video as a teaching element and also be doing leadership and character development. Bantams).

  • All Training session will be at Ames 1.

Dates: 

STP - June 10th - August 1st, week of July 1st – July 5th off for 4th of July

Cost:

STP Bantam - $1,000

STP PeeWee/Squirt - $875

STP Mites - $675

To register/pay: Venmo coach Jake Taylor @strappnde. Please incl. the camp name and your players first/last name. Registration deadline is April 30th.

For questions: call coach Jake Taylor @ 952-250-7730 or email headcoach@lakevillenorthhockey.com


Lakeville North - Drill & Practice Library

We are using Ice Hockey Systems (IHS) for organizing and sharing all the best practices across the North hockey teams. We will be populating it with drills and practice plans developed by Tim Conboy. This is also a place for you to share your favorite practices with other coaches.  Below are a few notes.

Account information

Drill and Practice plan sharing – key points

  • Check Category box(es) that best reflect the type of drill
  • Click the “share with association” button to share your drill or practice plan with the association.
  • To share with other coaches or parents, you can send them a link. They do not need an account to view them.
  • There are also 1,000’s of drills in the IHS library.

Other Resources:


Lakeville South Boys Summer Camp

Lakeville South Boys Summer Hockey Camp      

Who: All Lakeville South hockey players from Mite to high school 

Where: Hasse arena

When:  6 weeks total, from June 10th - July 26th 

(The week of July 4th (1st-5th) is off for the MSHSL mandatory no contact week.)

Time

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

7:00-8:00 am

HS Group A

HS Group A

Bantam

HS Group A

8:10-9:10

HS Group B

HS Group B

Peewee

HS Group B

9:20-10:20

Mite

Bantam 

Mite

Mite

10:30-11:30

Squirt

Peewee

Squirt

Squirt

11:40-12:40

Peewee 

   

Bantam

On ice instruction:  All instruction will be provided by Lakeville South head coach Josh Storm and other LSHS coaches, as well as other guest coaches.  

How to register: Fill out this form! CLICK HERE!

Please register for the level you will be playing at for the 2024-2025 season.Second year Bantam AA returners can choose to skate with the high school or Bantam group.  High school groups will be set up by Coach Storm based on age and numbers. Registrations are due by May 15th.  Contact Coach Storm with any questions

Cost:

 $500 if paying by cash or check $510 if paying through venmo.  (Venmo charges businesses 2%)

Checks can be made out to Storm Hockey Camps and mailed to the address below, you may bring cash the first day or you may Venmo @stormhockeycamps

Payment can be mailed to:  

Storm hockey camps

2018 Erie Dr. 

Northfield, MN 55057

Questions? Please contact Josh Storm at joshuajstorm@gmail.com


Summer Goalie Equipment Rental

Goalie equipment is available for summer check-out for our Mite and U8 players to continue their training.

A payment of $100 is required for the summer goalie check out.  When all equipment is returned at the end of the summer in good working order, a $50 refund will be issued.

Once registered, an email will be sent to coordinate pick-up of equipment.

Questions: Steve Frey Equipment@lakevillehockey.org




2023 LHA Summer Shooting Challenge

July 15 - Sept 15

Shooting Goals

U10, U12, U15, Squirt, Peewee, Bantam

  • 2,500 shots earns an LHA Summer Shooting Challenge T-shirt 
  • 5,000 shots earns an LHA t-shirt, entered into a drawing to receive a $200 gift card to Westwood Sports!

Mites and U8 

  • 2,000 Shots earns an LHA Summer Shooting Challenge T-shirt 
  • 4,000-earns an LHA t-shirt, and entered into a drawing to receive a $100 gift card to Westwood Sports

Registration for Summer Shooting Challenge

Players with an Existing account don't need to do anything, unless you switched teams/levels (e.g. went from Mites to Squirts)

If you need to switch teams:

Sign into Hockey Share https://www.hockeyshare.com/10k/player/

  1. Select “Players” tab
  2. Under your player, select the “Track Shots” button
  3. Next to their name, select “Change Team” 
  4. Search “Lakeville”
  5. Select “Lakeville Hockey Association – 2022 [your team]” 

New Player Registration:

  1. Click on age specific team link listed to the right
  2. Register to create a new free account
  3. Validate your email address
  4. Create user name and profile
  5. Put team name in search bar
  6. Edit age specific shooting goals 
  7. Track shots on team page 

North Shooting Registration

Squirts, Pee Wee, Bantam, JR. Gold click here to join the challenge!

South Shooting Registration

Squirts, Pee Wee, Bantam, JR. Gold click here to join the challenge!

Mite/U8 Registration

Mites and U8 girls sign up to join the challenge!

ICECAT SHOOTER REGISTRATION

U10, U12, U15 sign up to join the challenge


Training Videos on YouTube

Here are a couple of shooting technique videos:

Basic Snap and Wrist Shots - From "Easton Art of Scoring"

Flex the stick – From "How To Hockey"

Basic Shooting technique – From "I Train Hockey"

10 Shooting Drills, shooting techniques of different NHL players

LHA YouTube - IceCats Videos

In addition to shooting techinques, there are stickhandling and dryland videos.