FREEZE CLINICS
Freeze Clinics will prepare and develop your player’s skills with a focus on the below skills. Coaches will provide proper instruction, technique, and feedback to players. *Participants will be placed with skaters of similar skill levels to ensure competitive play and player skill progression.
Power Skating
Puck Control/Stickhandling
Passing & Shooting
Battles & Checking
*Curriculums will be led by Hockey Director, Pat St Clair, Associate Hockey Director Mike O’Neil, other hockey operations key stakeholders and guest elite coaches. These coaches have worked with National bound players at both the Tier 1 and Tier 2 levels.
Clinics will be announced through out the year. There will be member only clinics as well as clinics open to all area players.
Ages
Clinics are planned for 8U - 18U players, including girls only clinics.
Where
Clinics are held at Skate Frederick
1288 Riverbend Way
Frederick, MD
&
Hagerstown Ice & Sports Complex
580 Security Road
Hagerstown, MD 21740
U8 - U16 Elite Clinic Series
U8B - 16U Elite Edge, Powerskating & Skills Clinic Series - FREE MEMBERS ONLY SERIES
Hagerstown Ice & Sports Complex
580 Security Road,
Hagerstown, MD 21740
Monday September 11 - 7:00 - 8:20PM
Monday September 18 - 7:00 - 8:20PM
Monday September 25 - 7:00 - 8:20PM
Join Frederick Freeze Hockey Director, Pat St Clair, and his staff of elite level instructors for a MEMBER FREE three session clinic series focusing on power skating and skill development. Offered to our U8 B - 16U members and taking place in Hagerstown, participants will receive the following through three 80-minute sessions of high-tempo and progressive station work adapted to differing group ability levels (Mites must be on the B or LA Teams):
Power Skating:
-Stride Mechanics
-Edgework - Crossovers and Tight Turns
-Quick Transitions
-Pace and Endurance
Skill Development:
-Small Area Creativity
-Effective Body Positioning
-Shooting & Passing Refinement
-Stickhandling Refinement
This clinic is open to players U8 B - U16 UA (Mites must be on U8B or U8LA Teams), ten registrants per age group. Registrants will need to sign up for each of the three clinics individually, in case there is a particular session they’re unable to make so the spot can be offered to another player. Registration link will be emailed directly to members, the is a MEMBER ONLY clinic series.
Pat St Clair
Frederick Freeze - Hockey Director