Director of Hockey
Phone: 651-442-5253
Hello HHA families,
Welcome to the Raider Development Challenge! The HHA Raider Development Challenge is our new offseason training experience sharing an opportunity for our players to have fun developing their hockey skills and overall athleticism away from the rink. We hope this programming (which was originally developed by the Ontario Minor Hockey Association) gives our players a fun and competitive opportunity to stay active in the offseason.
OBJECTIVE: The HHA Raider Development Challenge will be an off-ice experience comprised of 4 programs for our players to choose from. The objective will be to complete 1 of the 4 programs between 6/5/23 and 9/4/23. 2 activities are 8-weeks long and 2 activities are 10-weeks long (one of the 10-week programs is designed for goalies only). There is NO sign up for these activities. Submission of program paperwork upon completion is the requirement. If you want to increase your development, feel free to do more than 1 challenge.
TIMING: Players have from 6/5/23 - 9/4/23 to complete their activities. We recommend that players use only the weeks allotted for the individual activity to complete each activity. Choosing a block of time and staying course is beneficial to create a habit, stay in routine and stay focused. That said, don’t turn this into a job, feel free to make a timeframe work for your player and family.
AWARD: The first and most important award is becoming more athletic while getting noticeably better at your hockey craft! Second, each player that completes 1 activity and turns their completed documents in to our coaching@hastingshockey.com email address by no later than 9/4/23 will win a special gift to be named later.
PROCESS: Please review the details of the program as well as the program tracking sheets. Once program activities are competed, players Name and Last Season HHA Team must be printed on the document. Scan or take a picture of the completed document and email it to coaching@hastingshockey.com once completed. HHA will be tracking all results in order to award the special gifts . 9/4/23 is the deadline, there will be no exceptions for submittals after 9/4/23.
** Thank you to the Ontario Minor Hockey Association for providing great instructions, programs and videos for the 30/30 challenge, 5,000 puck challenge and 10,000 touch challenge.
** Thank you to the EGF GreenWave for providing these off-ice instructional videos for goalie offseason training.