The Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club - Early Rising Stars of Tomorrow

Now offered at 4 locations around the Twin Cities

Breakfast Club Fact....

Since 2006 - 30 of our Breakfast Club Students have been drafted by the NHL!

These are players that we worked with over a number of years.
Nothing good comes overnight.

What comes first
success
or
confidence?

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?

Discipline and Time. Young players do not have the discipline to work on their 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.

QUESTIONS?

Call Todd Blackstone at 952-746-9033 for questions on Breakfast Club
or group availability.

Breakfast Club Brochure

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 time for scrimmages. The thought 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 then 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 stickhandling 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.

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 overall 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.

Breakfast Club Information

Each ice time session is 45 minutes long (1 day a week)
Monday - Friday mornings before school
Each session will have approximately 8 to 10 skaters
The Breakfast Club will have the use of the entire sheet of ice.

$389.00 per session (Each session is 10 weeks)

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.

Time & Location Availability

6:00-6:45 am
6:45-7:30 am
7:30-8:15 am

Minnesota Made Ice Center
Monday-Friday

White Bear Lake Sports Center
Tuesdays

Burnsville Ice Arena
Wednesdays

Maple Grove Community Center
Thursdays

PLEASE CALL FOR AVAILABILITY AND PLACEMENT.

Todd Blackstone

Hockey Program Director

Phone: 952-746-9033