TGC Mankato: July 6-10

TGC is excited to make it's first appearance in Mankato, MN July 6-10, 2009. After a few weeks off, the staff will be excited to get back on the ice and watch our TGC goalies continue to make adjustments and improvements throughout the week. There will be a wide range of goalies in Mankato; from mites to high school, everyone will be going for it! TGC goalie school runs from 9am-3pm at All Seasons Arena. See you at the rink!

TGC at SSM wraps up today.

Isaak Tjaden works on his movement as Coach Des looks on.

We had a great week of TGC at Shattuck-St. Mary's School with all of our goalies improving in all aspects of their game. The improvement in rebound control and recoveries from Monday to Friday has been very impressive. All of our goalies worked hard and we look forward to having them train with us again soon.

Tendies finally get a victory in Crickle Ball!

Cooper Cook blasts a hit off of Coach Des as his teammates look on during the 3-game Crickle Ball Series on Thursday night on the Parade Field at Shattuck-St. Mary's School.

After going 0-7, the Tendies came out strong and picked up 2 big wins! Sean, Isaak, Matt, Saj, Orion, Tristen, and Alex scored six runs in the first inning and held on for the victory.

Mariah, Nick, Drew, John, Cooper, Chris, and Gage picked up a victory in the third game despite being short one of their strongest players, Caleb, who was out of the lineup for the night to participate in a tryout.

TGC Summer Kicks off at SSM...

We are really going for it this week at Shattuck-St. Mary's School during TGC's Prodigy and Verge Residence camp. Sunday night started off with an hour long on-ice session where we focused on skating and fundamental movements. A chance for our goalies to get on the ice and prepared for the vigorous week of training ahead of them.

We have had 7 great on-ice sessions already and all of our goalies are working hard and getting better. This week is SOLD OUT and we have goalies training with us from all over including: Colorado, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin. In just 3 days, we have focused on fundamental movements, skating, rebound control, recoveries, walkouts, passouts, cut-ins, high and low one-timers, wrap-arounds, screens, deflections, and most importantly...always watching the puck!

We have spent time each day off the ice analyzing individualized video, as well as looking at NHL game tape and breaking down different goaltender's situational play. During our off-ice training this week, our focus has been on strength, speed, quickness, agility, and flexibility.

Our nightly activities have been full of excitement with a best of three Crickle Ball Series on Monday night, followed up with a night in front of the TV watching an exciting Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs featuring some great goaltending by Chris Osgood and Marc-Andre Fleury. Two goaltenders with very different styles, who have the ability to make big saves; something that we love to see at TGC. We want OUR goalies to work hard to develop and fine tune their own individual style. We like to show a variety of ways to approach different situations, but want our goalies to choose what works best for them.

We have another big Crickle Ball Series coming up tonight! The teams are battling hard and the Tendies are looking to even up the series. Crickle Ball is TGC's original stick ball game using a goalstick paddle for a bat.

Well... it's time for us to get back out there and GO FOR IT!