Veritas Hockey believes strongly in providing quality instruction to our players to develop the skills they need to succeed now and in the future. There are three parts to our approach to development for our clients:
Evaluation
With expertise from decades of work in all sides of the sport and business of hockey, we inform our clients what is strong and weak in their game, what the “conventional wisdom” of their game from the scouts is, and what they need off-ice to round out their development plan.
Knowledge
This encompasses what you need to know, on-ice and off, to optimize your hockey career potential. We give you resources in nutrition, hockey skills, strength & conditioning, rules and regulations of the various levels of hockey, academic requirements and how to meet them, and personal advice on the player’s particular challenges, as well as referrals to experts in their fields for individualized instruction. In addition, for older clients we help them with life’s stages and challenges to help them with a strategy for wealth management and planning, daily life, off-season plans and individual counsel on the decisions and challenges they face as professional hockey players.
On-Ice Development
We hold various camps, tournaments and seminars where we can directly coach our players on things they need to learn and what they should expect at the next level for their path. As part of this endeavor, Veritas Hockey has hosted development camps and put together tournaments and tourney teams during the off-season and brings in NHL, junior and AHL staff to work with players on skill development. As part of this process, we focus on not only on-ice skills, but also rely heavily on video instruction and dry land training. Veritas Hockey development camps also feature a lecture series on topics ranging from financial management to nutrition and social and traditional media training. We believe it is important for our players to be as good off the ice as they are on the ice.