CANORA, SASK.- “Everyone’s was flying around, excited about the new hockey season.”
Only a few days after the ice was put in at the Canora Civic Centre, Logan Foster, most valuable player and top scorer for the Canora Senior Cobras this past season, led a hockey skills camp in Canora on Oct. 17-18.
Foster said approximately 36 players were registered. For the two-day camp they were split into three groups: U9, U11/13 and U15/18. In addition to Canora, players also signed up from elsewhere across the region including Kamsack, Norquay and Preeceville.
“I like having smaller groups for this type of camp,” said Foster. “It allows more time to explain things to the players.
Areas of focus during the camp included skating, shooting and stickhandling.
“For skating we do some edge work, striding, and also cover training,” said Foster. “We work on stickhandling but also how to warm up beforehand. We do more shooting work with the older players who have had more previous instruction.
“For the younger players who have little or no experience from previous camps we stress doing drills correctly, usually starting with drills without the puck. I always tell them, you have to skate before you can stickhandle or shoot. But when the drills are over we generally have a game, because that’s what most of them are excited about.”
Foster says it’s important for young players to remember that hockey is a game, and it’s important to have fun.
“But they have to realize it takes work to get better. The body gets sore sometimes and it can get to be a grind that way.”
Originally from Kamsack, Foster recalls his parents often having to drive him to Regina for hockey camps as a youngster to get him top-level instruction. In the last few years, he has been leading similar hockey camps in a number of small communities across the region.
“I want to give the opportunity for small-town players to participate in these camps and not have to travel to the big city for it. And it’s a way of making things easier on parents too, so they can save some money on gas and save the time of not having to make those long trips to Regina.”
Always looking to improve his camps, Foster encourages feedback from parents and players. He can be reached by phone at 1-306-590-7691.
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