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The Breakfast Club
Did you know...
That since 2006 - 22 of our Breakfast Club Students have been drafted by the NHL!
It’s true, 22 of our stickhandling students were drafted by NHL teams. These are players that we worked with over a number of years.
Nothing good comes overnight.
Breakfast Club Quick Facts
- Players are on ice one morning a week for 45 minutes.
- Players have a ½ hour dryland homework assignment 4 days per week.
- Small group of around 8 skaters.
- Each session is 10 weeks. 3 sessions per school year (Fall, Winter and Spring)
What is the Breakfast Club?
The Breakfast Club is a program designed to develop individual skating and primarily stickhandling skills in a small group setting. This program takes place at the new Minnesota Made Ice Center. The program runs weekday mornings before school during the school year.
Breakfast Club Information
- Each ice time session is 45 minutes long
- Weekdays before school
- Ice times each day
- Each session will have around 8 skaters.
- The Breakfast Club will have the use of the entire sheet of ice.
COST
- $379.00 per session (Each session is 10 weeks)
Minnesota Made Ice Center Sessions available Monday-Friday
Burnsville Ice Arena Sessions available - Wednesday
NEW THIS YEAR!! Vadnais Heights Sports Center - Tuesday
- 6:00am - 6:45am
- 6:45am - 7:30am
- 7:30am - 8:15am
This program has three 10 week sessions per school year. If space is available a player may start after the session has begun, in which case the fee will be prorated to the number of weeks left.
Call 952.746.9033 and talk to Todd Blackstone for clinic dates and availability
Instruction
Bernie McBain started and has been teaching with MINNESOTA MADE HOCKEY for the last 18 years. Todd Blackstone has been teaching with MINNESOTA MADE HOCKEY for the past 15 years. Last summer they ran 52 hockey clinics working with hundreds of players from Mites to High School. Averaging 25-30 hours of on-ice instruction a week. This training system teaches young hockey players the value of goal setting and self-discipline.
What comes first success or confidence?
The answer is neither. Hard work is the only way to achieve success and lasting confidence. How many times have you heard someone refer to a young player as a very skilled player? Probably not often, the reason is there are not many of them out there.
Why?
The answer to that question is discipline and time. Young players do not have the discipline to work on skills on their own. Go to any hockey rink and look around and you will see the vast majority of players spend their time shooting pucks at the boards. This does not develop skills. Most parents don’t have the time to work with their player on a consistent basis, leaving the finer points of the game (or skills) under developed.
The Breakfast Club can help!
With our small group-training program we can work with players on a more individual basis by taking each of the different skills and breaking them down into smaller components. With proper technique and quality repetition, players will have the ability to work on each skill through a progression. With these smaller achievements players are motivated to practice, giving them the over all ability to master each skill.
Homework. A very valuable part of our program is the homework. Each week the students receive a dryland stickhandling assignment. The students are expected to work on their assignment for about 30 minutes, four days a week. Each week when they return to their ice time they turn in the completed assignment. This gives each student the repetitions needed to master the stickhandling skills. This accountability is a big help in keeping students motivated.
Do we really spend enough time on skills?
During the season players and teams spend very little time working on individual skills. A compromise is made, and goals such as winning and team concepts are made a higher priority, using up much of the available practice time. Also, in order to stretch and maximize ice time teams will trade ice times for scrimmages. The thinking is that two scrimmages are worth more than one practice.
This is just not true. Out of a sixty-minute game the average player will only touch the puck for less than a minute. This amount of time will do nothing to improve stickhandling skills.
When it comes to skating, let us say for example a player has a hard time making a power turn to the left.In a game he or she will simply not make that turn to the left. This takes the skater out the play and the opportunity will have been missed. The same can be said for stickhandling. If the player can’t handle the puck well enough to make the play their opportunity is missed.
No one can be a good hockey player until he or she no longer has to think about their feet, or weather the puck is still at the end of their stick. It’s simple, without good skating and stick handling skills a player can’t see the ice or be part of the play that is in front of them. As parents and coaches we can’t expect this from them until skills are developed.
