September 5, 2011
Acres Hockey Program Director takes Coaching Job in Hungary for 2011-12
Acres Hockey Program Director, Henry Acres, has accepted the assistant coach position with Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák (Dunaujvaros Steel Bulls) in Hungary. The Steel Bulls are professional hockey club that will compete in 2 leagues during the 2011-12 season. Playing a full schedule in the Hungarian/Romanian MOL Legaue and Austrian-National League. The Head Coach of the Dunaujavaros club is Stephan Lundh. A former Swedish Sr. and Under 18 National Team head coach with 20+ seasons experience in Sweden's Elite League, most recently with Frolunda Indians during 2010-11. Henry is very excited to get to work with the Hungarian players while also having the opportunity to have a mentor like Stephan. He will be arriving today in Dunaujvaros and begin his new post immediately.
August 19, 2011
Acres Hockey Teams Up with Brain Navigators for Concussion Free Hockey on Shaw TV
August 5, 2011
Acres Hockey Programs Draw Players
“It’s a good camp, no doubt about it. We’ve been to quite a few different camps and this is the best one ... it’s more hands on, and the kids really enjoy themselves,” said hockey dad Brad Templeton, whose son Conner is back for his second year.
His son, he said, “liked it so much last year he wanted to come back ... the car can pretty much drive itself here now,” Brad joked, pointing out they were also in town two weeks ago for Acres’ D-man camp.
http://www.pqbnews.com/sports/126518738.html
August 4, 2011
Colleen Butler-Brain Navigators involvement with AHT Programs 2011
Thanks Colleen, an amazing awesome job with all you involement with AHT in 2011!!!
http://www.pqbnews.com/sports/126518828.html
August 3, 2011
August 2, 2011
Brain Navigators & Acres Hockey Concussion Prevention makes A-TV
http://brainnavigators.com/2011/08/brain-navigators-acres-hockey-concussion-prevention-make-atv-2/
August 1, 2011
Acres Hockey 2011 Programs Complete
July 23, 2011
Thanks to all "Great Start" Participants
July 17, 2011
D-Man Clinics a Succcess
July 15, 2011
Luke Forsgren Wins a Free Week at AHT!
July 13, 2011
Acres Hockey Program Director featured in Swedish Press
July 12, 2011
Training For Safe Hockey in Parksville
http://www.pqbnews.com/sports/125378958.html
July 12, 2011
Acres Hockey Alum Graduates to BCHL
July 4, 2011
AHT Alum Shines Bright at BC High Performance Camp
June 28, 2011
Acres Hockey Program Director in Penticton to assist BC Hockey with U16 Team.
Henry Acres, Program Director at Acres Hockey Training is one of 30 Coach Delegates invited to assist with the preparation and selection of the U16 Team BC. Henry will be in Penticton June 29-July 4 and is very honored to have been selected to work with these very talented young players and coaches from across BC. The BC team will compete in the Western Branch Challenge in October against teams from the other western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
June 27, 2011
Thanks to Sports Traders-Parksville and Victoria, BLADETAPE, Parksville Lions Club, Brooklynite Hockey, 88.5 The Beach radio personality, Dave Graham and all who came out to support us over this past weekends promotions!!!
We had a great time meeting all of you and wish all players a great summer season at which ever hockey training program you do chose to attend. A special thanks to the Parksville Lions Club for the generous use of their Vegas Spin Wheel for our prize giveaways.
June 23, 2011
Acres Hockey Registration Promo Weekend
Acres Hockey 2011-Concussion Prevention Focused Hockey Schools
June 25 and 26, 2011 from 12-3 pm you are invited to a special promotion at SportsTraders-Parksville, June 25 and SportsTraders-Victoria, June 26. You are invited to come down and meet Henry Acres, Program Director of Acres Hockey Training and Colleen Butler from Brain Navigators. Register at this time for one of our cutting edge hockey development programs Great Start , Foundation , Steps and receive a FREE Brooklynite composite hockey stick to take home with you!!!
Other highlights include:
Test drive Brooklynite Sticks and gloves in the Target Shooting Area-hit all 4 targets and win a prize! (June 25-Parksville only)
Chance to be interviewed by The Beach 88.5 as they broadcast live on-location (June 25-Parksville only)
Autographed pictures of Henry Acres, Pro Player in Sweden/Finland.
Enter the WIN YOUR SPOT contest for FREE admission to the hockey school
Hot-dogs and drinks (June 25-Parksville only)
Prize Draws, Stickers and other promo items
We are looking forward to a great weekend at SportsTraders-Parksville-Victoria. Meeting you, your family and the chance to talk hockey safety!!!
www.acreshockey.com www.brainnavigators.com
RESPECT, SAFETY, SKILLS, FUN!!!
June 10, 2011
Acres Hockey Program Director agrees to Head Coach Position at Hockey Academy in Switzerland
Henry Acres, Program Director of Acres Hockey Training retires after a 9-year pro playing career and will lead the SISEC North Am Selects in Engelberg, Switzerland during 2011-12. This a program for players aged 17-20 from any country in the world that will play in 2 divisions of men's semi-pro hockey in Switzerland. The only team with 100% imports sanctioned to play in a Swiss League. "I am very excited to take the next step in my coaching career and this is a wonderful opportunity that SISEC has provided me with. The possibilities with this program are phenomenal for the players to experience life in Switzerland along with developing these young men for hockey and life." says Acres. The goal of this program is to fully prepare players physically and mentally to make the next step in their hockey career, be that Jr. A, NCAA or pro in Europe or North America. For more information about this program please contact Henry.
May 16, 2011
AHT International Instructor Wins Gold Medal at IIHF World Championships
Juhamatti Aaltonen was a key member of Finland's Championship team this past weekend at the 2011 IIHF World Championships in Slovakia. Aaltonen collected 1 goal and 3 assists in 9 games with the Gold medal winning national team. After leading the SM Liiga in goal scoring during 2009-10, Juhamatti signed with KHL team, Metallurg Magnitogorsk and collected 20 goals and 19 assists in 54 games this last season. Acres Hockey wishes Juhamatti continued success and is very proud to be associated with such a fine young man.
May 6, 2011
Congratulations to AHT Alum-Chase Lang on being Selected in the WHL Draft
Chase was selected in this weeks WHL Bantam Draft by the Calgary Hitmen as the first pick of the 5th Round, 89th overall. We are very proud of Chase and wish him continued success on his hockey journey!!! This is only the beginning for a very talented hockey player and fine young man. 7-island trained players were selected in the draft and Acres Hockey congratulates all these players on this accomplishment. It is one thing to be drafted, that means someone likes what you have shown thus far. Now it is up to you to take the next steps necessary to move your career forward.
May 2, 2011
Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended thanks to Offside Marketing
Fully register by June 1, 2011 to receive a composite Brooklynite stick at Acres Hockey July Schools!
Players in the Great Start, Foundation and Steps Programs are eligible for this promotion. Copy and paste the coupon from Offside Marketing and email it to register@acreshockey.com Or print the coupon and mail to Acres Hockey after you register on-line. You will receive your shiny new twig at final registration, the day before school starts or on the first day of the school and we will gladly help you to get it ready to use if needed. Please contact us if we can in anyway assist with your registration as we have various payment options available. You can't improve your game if you aren't on the ice and we are very willing to help get you out there with us. More exciting news about Acres Hockey Training's Programs and line-up of instructors coming very soon!
Jan 24, 2011
AHT Partners with Progressive Goaltending
Acres Hockey is pleased to announce Progressive Goaltending out of Victoria will handle our goalie instruction in 2011. Progressive Goaltending will provide goalie instruction during all D-Man Clinics and with the Foundation and Steps Programs. Video Analysis is a key component of what Progressive Goaltending can offer "The last line of Defence." Check out what else they can offer at www.progressivegoaltending.com
D-Man Goalie Clinics 2011 Poster please share to all interested!!!
Jan 3, 2011
2011 Programs Announcement
2011 Parksville Programs- Initiation-"Great Start" Program (ages 5-8)
Half days-July 18, 19, 20, 2011
Foundation (ages 9-11)-Steps Programs (ages 12-14)
Full days-July 24-28, 2011
July 15-16, 2011
Other Locations- Haparanda/Tornio, Sweden/Finland-March Break Camp
March 6-7
D-man Clinic's-Courtenay, Nanaimo, Victoria, BC, Canada
July 2011
On-line Registration will open for Parksville Programs January 15, 2011.
Jan 1, 2011
Happy New Year 2011!!!!
Aug 1, 2010
Thanks to all participants, coaches and sponsors!
Acres Hockey has put the wraps on another successful summer of training programs for 2010. Henry wishes to thank all participants for their efforts during the camp weeks and wishes you all a great hockey season in 2010-11 and we hope to see you again in 2011 as Acres Hockey will be expanding with new programs, more program options and new program locations also. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements regarding AHT 2011!
June 29, 2010
D-man Clinic Success!
A big thank you to all the participants from this weekend's D-man Clinic. I really enjoyed working with all of you and look forward to seeing many of you again in a couple weeks at the Camp week. For those of you I won't be seeing again this summer, keep working hard on your game and much success in this coming season.
May 5, 2009
Acres Hockey Training- recently named an approved Hockey School of BC Hockey.
Congrats to AHT Alumni-Evan Tironese who recently participated in BC Hockey's U16 High Performance Camp in Prince George. Travis Flug and Quentin McShane were selected to compete at the U17 Camp in 100 Mile House this past weekend. A great showing by all the boys-great work guys and looking forward to seeing you at the camps this summer!
More great news as Alum and Instructor-Matt Wray will continue his hockey career and studies at UBC in the fall. Matt resently completed his junior career as captain of the Camrose Kodiaks of the AJHL after competing in the VIJHL, WHL, and BCHL. More on Matt's scholarship to UBC here
Good luck Matty all your hard work sure is paying off!!!
April 23, 2010
Elite Program Options Updated-Want only the ice sessions you can now register for ice only programs!
April 8, 2010
Acres Hockey will be hosting a week long camp in Tuusula, Finland in co-operation with Tuuski Hockey-Week 32-Aug. 9-13. Age Groups- Foundation (ages 8-9) Steps (ages 10-11) Elite (ages 12-14) Registration information coming soon.....
April 8, 2010
Check out our highlight video from 2009 International Program in Oulu, Finland.
http://www.youtube.com/user/acreshockey?feature=mhw5
April 6, 2010
Congrats to the Lulea J20 team on a 3rd place finish in the very competitive Swedish J20 Elite League playoffs!!! I was fortunate to skate with these guys during our 2 months at Lulea hospital with the twins in the fall. Great work guys!!!!
April 5, 2010
Congrats to the Revelstoke Grizzlies CTC Champions for 2010. Peninsula Panthers-2nd Aldergrove Kodiaks-3rd and host Oceanside Generals-4th. The BC Jr. B Championship tournament was a great success and Oceanside did the community proud with their play and by orgainizing a great weekend of hockey and festivities!!!!
March 31, 2010
Congrats to AHT participant-Gerry Fitzgerald and his Peninsula Pathers teamates on winning the VIJHL Championship! Gerry will be facing off against his brothers Leo and Myles-also AHT participants in the Cyclone Taylor Cup for BC Jr. B supremacy starting tommorow at Oceanside Place in Parksville. If you are in the mid-island area, be sure to check out the action this weekend. More info at www.oceansidegenerals.com
March 30, 2010
Congrats to the OMHA Novice Oceanside Jets who took the Gold medal at a tournament in Powell River defeating Kerry Park 3-2 to advance to the finals vs. Powell River and winning 5-4. Team Members include Acres Hockey participants--David Downey and Nolan Crampton
March 29, 2010
Congrats to AHT Jr. Instructor-Teagun Waugh and his Powell River Kings teammates on winning the BCHL Coastal Conference! Keep up to good work Teagun. Best of luck in the Fred Page Cup Finals vs. Vernon.
March 27, 2010
Acres Hockey will be returning to Finland for a summer camp in 2010! Stay Tuned for more info........
March 25, 2010
Congrats to the Oceanside Generals Atom Selects captureing the Atom Development League Championship Tier 2, defeating Victoria Raquet Club 11-1 and Kerry Park 4-1. Team is coached by Darren Freeman- they ended league play 12-1-1. They also earned the maximum number of sportmanship points, awarded for games played with 8 minutes or less in penalties.
Team members include Acres Hockey particpiants--Katy Downey and Landon Dziadyk.
January 22, 2010:
Registration for Parksville 2010 Programs Now Open!
Don't be left out of the best July hockey camp on Vancouver Island!
Brooklynite Hockey continues as major sponsor of Acres Hockey with all participants receiving a composite stick in addition to a great week of on and off-ice training.
January 21, 2010:
Henry receives many requests for drills and how to have fun, challenging practices. In the future Henry has plans for a drill book. For now there are many resources on-line. I highly recommend this site HockeyCoachingABC's forum-moderated by Tom Molloy out of Calgary. Tom has coached all over the world at all levels and is great hockey man!!!
January 20, 2010:
We want to hear from you!!!!
Drop Henry a line on the Acres Hockey Training Facebook page!!!
Follow us on Twitter @AcresHockey
If you have had a great game or hockey experience and we will publish it also here in the news items.
November 29, 2009:
Announcing Parksville Camp Dates for 2010!
Foundation/Steps Programs-Ages 9-11, 12-14 July 27-31 FULL DAY PROGRAM-TUESDAY-SATURDAY
Elite Program-Midget, Jr., College, Pro Week#1-July 18-22, Week#2-July 25-29 EVENING PROGRAM
Registration for 2010 Programs will open soon!
November 20, 2009:
Congratulations to AHT Instructor and Participant, Rick Cleaver, on his recent call-up to the Hershey Bears of the AHL-the top affilate of the Washington Capitals, NHL. Rick, a natural goal scoring winger attended training camp with the Bears and is off to a hot start with the Kalamazoo Wings, ECHL, with 8 goals and 11 assists in 12 games. Rick is a 2nd year pro who attended San Jose Sharks, NHL, training camp in 2008.
Also, AHT Instructor and Participant, Nick Bell, has been called up to the BCHL's Nanaimo Clippers, from the VIJHL's, Oceanside Generals. Nick a defenseman was in his second season with the Gens. He joins another AHT alum, Kyle Kramer on the Clippers.
Keep up to good work guys!
August 2, 2009:
Thanks to all Coaches, instructors, extra helpers, sponsers and participants for another successful season of Acres Hockey in 2009! Best wishes to all in your upcoming seasons. Henry Acres
April 20, 2009:
In 2009 all Acres Hockey participants will receive a composite stick from Brooklynite Hockey!!!! Register today!
April 15, 2009:
AHT now offers online registration!
April 10, 2009:
AHT is getting excited about this year's camps. Got a question? Be sure to contact us!
