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!