Boys and Girls Learn to Play

Learn to Play is a program developed for beginner players involving skills training for 4 to 6 year olds. The goal of the program is to provide a fun environment for young players to be introduced to hockey skills and to develop a passion for the sport. Registrants are expected to be able to stand up on skates and move around freely.  The better the skating ability the more useful the program will be for developing hockey skills.  The professional hockey skills training is provided by Canadian Pro Hockey Clinic instructors. (www.cphc.on.ca )

We recommend the North Toronto Skating Club’s Canskate (www.northtorontoskatingclub.com ) program for potential Learn to Play participants who need additional skating development before moving on to  the NT Learn to Play Program. 

Learn to Play is a 19 week program that begins the weekend of October 17, 2009. There are a maximum of 48 players per class with a minimum of 4 instructors for each session.   Sessions will include a variety of drills to improve stick handling, skating, shooting and passing.  There will also be scrimmages so that budding stars can display their hockey skills. 

 Players will be expected to have the full collection of equipment at all of their sessions.   Sweaters and hockey socks will be provided to each registrant at their first session.  Dressing rooms will be provided for the players to get ready before sessions.  Expect to be at the arena approximately 25 minutes before the session start time. 

The equipment list for the new hockey players is:

• Hockey Skates
• Hockey Pants
• Hockey Stick
• Shin Guards
• Hockey Gloves
• Shoulder Pads
• Elbow Pads
• Athletic Support with Protective Cup (Jock or Jill for female players)
• Garter Belt or Equivalent ( may be velcro on Athletic support above)
• Helmet with CSA approved Face Mask
• Neck Guard

The available Learn to Play time slots are outlined on the House League Summary page.

New Girls Only Learn to Play – Winter 2010

The North Toronto Hockey Association (NTHA) is proud to present a Girls Only Learn to Play (LTP) Hockey program for girls aged 5 to 7 (2002 to 2005) who are not participating in other Girls Only programs.  The class size will be limited to only 32 participants for this initial program.  The program is designed for young girls who have some skating ability but want to learn the skills of hockey.  It will include skating, stick handling, passing and shooting activities.  Several sessions will be devoted to scrimmages and mini games.   Players must have full Hockey Canada approved equipment to participate as listed above.

It will run Friday evenings at 6pm.  The program will start on Friday January 8, 2010 and run through Friday April 16, 2010.  Sessions will be 60 minutes until February 26.  Session from March 12 to April 16 will be 90 minutes and will start at 5:30pm.

The program will be run by the professionals of Canadian Pro Hockey Clinic.  CPHC is very experienced in running hockey programs for young girls and boys who are just learning the game.  CPHC has been successfully running the co-ed NTHA Learn to Play program for many years.  Visit the Canadian Pro Hockey Clinic website for more information about CPHC.   www.cphc.on.ca

This Girls Only LTP also includes a special North Toronto Skating Club offer for skating lessons – see the Register Here page for more details.