Sunday Skills Session to kick off this week!

Sunday, September 13 will officially kick off the year with TGC Sunday Skills Sessions at Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, MN. These hour and a half long sessions focus on all aspects of goaltending and run from 7:15-8:45am. From the start of practice we work on our skating, edgework, and balance. Movements and recoveries are a major focus as we believe that repetition of proper movement and recovery technique lead to muscle memory, making this second nature to our goalies. TGC will push you to pay attention to detail while allowing you to develop your own personal style. Detail in your movements, skill set, mental approach, positioning, and rebound placement. Join Coach Des and the TGC staff bright and early. We GO FOR IT before other goalies are even awake.

TGC Wraps Up 2009 Summer at SSM

TGC wraps up the 2009 Summer Campaign with a sold out camp at Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, MN from August 24-28.

TGC @ St. Paul-Highland 8/17-21

TGC is excited to be in St. Paul this week at Highland Arena for a sold out camp.

6 way tie for GOLD

During the TGC Goalympics on Friday in Eagan, all of the goalies were competing hard in the last ice session. A few years back, as a staff, we decided that it is important to allow the TGC goalies to use all of the new skills that they have learned throughout the week in a competitive setting. Thus, the TGC Goalympics were born. With Coach Grant acting as the Goalympic Commissioner, we break the goalies into teams and let them compete against eachother and the coaches for the Goalympic Gold. Through these competitive games; we focus on rebound control, recoveries, patience, save selection, focus under pressure, and teamwork. The coaching staff and snipers work hard to try to score goals, while the goalies are trying to put themselves in good position to force the shooters to take quality shots. We had six rotations at Eagan's Goalympics and with a few teams starting out 2-1 and others starting out 0-3, it looked like we would have a three team battle for the Gold Medal. The goalies were able to see the standings as they submitted scores from the various events and our team captains were able to motivate their teams to continue to work hard and compete. Going into the last event of the day, we had three teams tied with a 2-3 record and the other three teams were 1-4. The gold medal was still up for grabs and we were anxious to see which goalies would step up and get their team a victory to take home the gold. When the final whistle blew and the team captains rushed over to submit their scores, we had a TGC first. All six teams finished with a 2-4 record and everyone was a TGC Goalympic Gold Medalist! It was an unbelievable highlight to another exciting week in Eagan!

TGC PRODIGY: August 3-7

Prodigy camp at the Bloomington Ice Garden kicked off this morning. A full camp of eager up and coming high school age netminders kicked off the first day of the week with some dryland training to work on strength, endurance, fitness, flexibility, agility, and balance. The staff is excited to be back in Bloomington for the second time this summer to continue to help our goalies make minor adjustments to improve positioning, rebound control, post-save recovery, and the goaltender's ability to read plays. With three hours of on-ice high intensity training at a 2:1 ratio, we know that our TGC goalies will get the most out of this weeks prodigy training and we are looking forward to another great week in Bloomington, Minnesota. Let's GO FOR IT!

TGC Blaine: July 27-31

The TGC staff is spending the week at Fogerty Arena in Blaine, Minnesota. This weeks staff includes Coaches Des, Grant, Andrew, Tyler, and Jeff. One of our favorite destinations of the summer is Blaine. We have many returning TGC goalies along with a few newcomers, who will definitely enjoy the TGC experience. This week's schedule is a bit different as camp begins with dryland at 10:30am, followed by lunch/classroom/video analysis, and the on-ice portion running from 1:30-4:30pm. The nice part about having on-ice training at the end of the day is the fact that it allows the discussion of the days points of emphasis and drills to occur prior to strapping on the pads and making saves. TGC goalies know that we don't just put the pads on, there is a bit of thinking involved in goaltending.

Looking forward to a great week in Blaine. Let's GO FOR IT! 

TGC Pro Camp at Bloomington Ice Garden

This morning we kicked off our inaugural TGC Junior/Pro Camp in Bloomington, MN. With all of the goalies in attendance playing Junior or College hockey this coming season, we are able to work with our TGC goalies who continue to elevate their game and take it to the next level.

A few of the goalies at camp this week have been training with Coach Des and Coach Shari since the early years of TGC. We have watched these goalies go from Squirt, to Peewee, to Bantam, to High School. Now TGC is able to work with these goalies as they make the jump from High School, to Junior, to College Hockey. Who knows, maybe in the next few years, we will see a few make the jump from college to the professional ranks!

Our first session went very well. The goalies went through a great 3 hour training session, which put an emphasis on sound positioning, reading plays, rebound control, efficient recoveries, and playing the puck.

We can't wait to get back on the ice at 9am tomorrow! Everyone GOES FOR IT!