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Meet Hockey Instructor Grant Holliday

Meet Hockey Instructor Grant Holliday

Tim Turk Hockey senior instructor Grant Holliday was born in 1990 in Toronto, Ontario. Grant boasts an impressive and strong educational background for hockey, as well as professional playing experience. For his post-secondary education, Grant attended Queens University in Kingston,…

5 Important Life Skills You Learn from Playing Hockey

5 Important Life Skills You Learn from Playing Hockey

Hockey is a wonderful sport. First, it makes fantastic use of winter, an otherwise bleak and cold season. It gives people from all walks of life the chance to experience the excitement and thrill of victory, and the motivation of…

5 Skills Hockey Scouts Look For

5 Skills Hockey Scouts Look For

It’s every hockey player’s dream: a stranger approaches you and introduces themselves as a scout. They tell you they’ve been keeping an eye on your performance and admit that they like your prowess and potential. They finish by offering you…

Summer Hockey Training

Summer Hockey Training

Keep the Momentum going this Summer with a Private or Small Group Hockey Training Session! Tim Turk Hockey’s Senior Instructor SEAN TEAKLE will be running development sessions on Saturdays @ the CAA Centre, Brampton, Ontario. Focus will be on Shooting,…

Minor Hockey Coaches – 5 Best Practices When Cutting Players

Minor Hockey Coaches – 5 Best Practices When Cutting Players

Youth hockey tryouts are an exciting, competitive, and sometimes stressful time of year. This is true not only for the children participating, but often even more so for the coaches who are teaching, evaluating, and, regrettably, making cuts at the…

Turk Hitting the Ice with Victor Mete

Turk Hitting the Ice with Victor Mete

Article by Arpon Basu, The Athletic.com BRAMPTON, Ont. – It is late May and the rink is cold and empty. Only one of the three ice sheets at the CAA Centre, home of the ECHL’s Brampton Beast, is lit up….

Visualization – Key to Success

Visualization – Key to Success

Hockey is an intense sport that requires speed, power, and endurance, even at the minor levels. Kids enjoy hockey for its fast pace and unique gameplay, some even utilizing skills from other sports and activities to improve their hockey game….

Scoring Goals – The Popularity of the Wrist Shot

Scoring Goals – The Popularity of the Wrist Shot

This data is one of the reasons why I focus a lot on the quick release wrist shot when teaching different shot types. I consider this information when working with teams and coaches to help them to formulate and fine…

Single Parenting in Minor Hockey

Single Parenting in Minor Hockey

Being the parent of a child in minor hockey is a challenge, to say the least. First, there are mounds of start-up costs, like registration and equipment. Then you need to make time and arrange rides every week for practices…

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