We have a vibrant program set for this upcoming season! 

Hi tempo skills and scrimmage sessions with Mite travel Coyote tournament teams (teams levels of play based on skills level), NWHL team league play, Wolverines Girls skills and scrimmage and additional team options and Midget weekly skates.

As always teams will have access to the performance training shelf and now floorball! 

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Please contact Randy Jordan  rjordan@heparks.org with any questions

WOLF PACK HOCKEY CLUB AT THE HOFFMAN ESTATES PARK DISTRICT

The Wolf Pack Hockey Club is a member of the NWHL (Northwest Hockey League) house/travel league.

Floorball is a fast-paced stick and ball sport that is safe, fun, inclusive, and easy to learn. Play centers around ball control, quick passing, and lots of running.

Floorball was originally developed in Sweden where the game has been played since the mid-1970s. It is the fastest growing team sport in Europe. The roots of Floorball can be found in many different sports; soccer, hockey, and basketball to name a few, which means that many concepts and strategies from those sports, can be seen in Floorball, according to the Floorball Training Guide.

Along with our unique focus on Sumo skating perfection and speed, we are anticipating that by adding Floorball it will round out our program to be the best platform anywhere. Passionate players who buy into our long-term development program of the total athlete can reach any level they want. Ask any great hockey player how they became so good…they will say playing hours of road/pond hockey. This self-motivated training improves stick skills, game vision, creativity, understanding tolerances, speed, and physical fitness. The personal commitment needs to be long-term to engrain core skills. Choosing to play on a team that may have a better chance to win, but does not stay the development course will hamper the player’s development.

To add excitement and validity to the Floorball initiative our GM and Chicago Wolves Coach Stan Dubicki has discussed it with our own Chicago Wolves players. The attached photo shows Thomas Hyka –Czech, Erik Brannstrom –captain of this year’s Swedish Jr National team, and Zach Whitecloud from Manitoba-eh! These Wolves all swear by the value of playing floorball in their development. They are hoping to get time with some of our players to show how it works!

The below You Tube link shows how the NHL supports the use of Floorball to develop players

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLlMzJps8I

The Hoffman Estates Park District has made  a great investment in reduced pricing, first class equipment and top level people to make the hockey experience the very best anywhere. Offering  Northwest Hockey League House Travel teams, Coyote Mite (8 and under) team hockey and Wolverines Girls Hockey the program is going to new levels to not only give our players the best tools to excel at hockey, but just as important do more to develop youth “total healthy athletes.”  Click here to read more.