NOW ACCEPTING REGISTRATIONS for Fall Classes in 2025!
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FALL 2025
Registration is now available for Cutting Edge’s Fall Pre Season Prep classes starting the week of September 2.
MONDAY
CE 3 ON 3, SESSION 1 – BORN 2020-2018
This program features a 35 minute high intensity skill development session led by Cutting Edge instructors Trent Sheldon and Ryan Penny. The last 15 minutes of each session will incorporate a 3 on 3 game providing players with the opportunity to integrate the skills they have practiced into game situations while receiving immediate feedback from our coaches. Possessing skill is only part of the equation. Understanding when and how to utilize those skills during a game is just as important. This program provides both the technical and tactical training every young player requires with a particular emphasis on skating, stick handling and shooting skills.
This program accepts a maximum of 12 players per session.
When: Mondays 530-630 pm
Start date: Monday, September 8
End Date: Monday, October 6
Cost $200 + hst (5 sessions)
CE 3 ON 3, SESSION 1 – REGISTER NOW
CE 3 ON 3, SESSION 2 – 2017-2016
This program features a 35 minute high intensity skill development session led by Cutting Edge instructors Trent Sheldon and Ryan Penny. The last 15 minutes of each session will incorporate a 3 on 3 game providing players with the opportunity to integrate the skills they have practiced into game situations while receiving immediate feedback from our coaches. Possessing skill is only part of the equation. Understanding when and how to utilize those skills during a game is just as important. This program provides both the technical and tactical training every young player requires with a particular emphasis on skating, stick handling and shooting skills.
This program accepts a maximum of 12 players per session.
When: Mondays 630-730 pm
Start date: Monday, September 8
End Date: Monday, October 6
Cost $200 + hst (5 sessions)
CE 3 ON 3, SESSION 2 – REGISTER NOW
CE 3 ON 3, SESSION 3 – 2015-2013
This program features a 35 minute high intensity skill development session led by Cutting Edge instructors Trent Sheldon and Ryan Penny. The last 15 minutes of each session will incorporate a 3 on 3 game providing players with the opportunity to integrate the skills they have practiced into game situations while receiving immediate feedback from our coaches. Possessing skill is only part of the equation. Understanding when and how to utilize those skills during a game is just as important. This program provides both the technical and tactical training every young player requires with a particular emphasis on skating, stick handling and shooting skills.
This program accepts a maximum of 12 players per session.
When: Mondays 730-830 pm
Start date: Monday, September 8
End Date: Monday, October 6
Cost $200 + hst (5 sessions)
CE 3 ON 3, SESSION 3 – REGISTER NOW
TUESDAY
CUTTING EDGE SKILLS #1 – BORN – 2020-2018
CE Skills #1 is our entry level skill development program designed to help the young hockey player build a strong foundation of skating, stick handling, passing and shooting skills. The focus of the class will be on proper balance, edge control, stride technique as well as the ability to handle the puck effectively on the forehand and backhand. Small area games will also be incorporated into this program providing players with the opportunity to apply their newly learned skills in game situations.
When: Tuesdays 530-630 pm
Start date: Tuesday, September 2
End Date: Tuesday, October 7
Cost $240 + hst (6 sessions)
FRIDAY
SKATE LIKE MCDAVID, SESSION 1 – BORN 2018-2016
SKATE LIKE MCDAVID, SESSION 2 – BORN 2015-2013
Connor McDavid is widely regarded as the fastest and best skater in NHL history by most experts. In a modern NHL that is full of great skaters, McDavid blows by his competition on a nightly basis and continues to dominate games with his speed, making many outstanding skaters look average.
If you have ever watched McDavid closely and broken down his skating technique you will notice that he has an incredibly unique skating style, vastly different than anyone before him.
For the last several decades, most skating coaches have taught classic power skating techniques focussing primarily on long forward strides reaching full extension.
This style of teaching is outdated and does not reflect how the NHL’s best skaters – McDavid, MacKinnon, Makar, Kaprizov and Barzal skate today.
These players do not skate like a classic power skater McDavid has the highest crossover to stride ratio in NHL history (3:1) while utilizing linear crossovers to reach his top speed in the blink of an eye and his edges to dart in every possible direction on the ice.
McDavid, MacKinnon and Makar regularly use punch turns, 10 & 2’s, and outside edge rolls to evade checkers and create the time and space needed to make highly skilled plays.
Kinesiologist and former pro hockey player Jason Yee has reverse engineered the skating mechanics of the NHL’s best skaters and dubbed them downhill skating because when they’re executed flawlessly the player skates so fast that they feel like they’re skating downhill.
As the game of hockey continues to evolve there will be many more players mimicking McDavid’s mechanics. You should be too. If you aren’t learning these mechanics and applying them in your games you’re falling behind your competitors.
Cutting Edge, under the direction of Head Instructor Trent Sheldon and Assistant Ryan Penny recognized the shift in skating technique many years ago and were the leaders in offering this instruction in the Halton Region with our Skate Like McDavid program, now running for 8 years.
This program is taught in a systematic and progressive format focussing on the development of skills such as:
corkscrew
anchor
soft drag
10 & 2
Stutter
Outside Edge Roll
Shuffle
Punch turn
Linear crossover
Forward stride
Session 1:
Players born: 2018-2016
When: Fridays 530-630 pm
State Date: Friday, September 5
End Date: Friday, October 11
Fee: $240 + hst (6 sessions)
Session 2:
Players born: 2015-2013
When: Fridays 630-7 pm
State Date: Friday, September 5
End Date: Friday, October 11
Fee: $240 + hst (6 sessions)
SKATE LIKE MCDAVID, SESSION 1 – REGISTER NOW
SKATE LIKE MCDAVID, SESSION 2 – REGISTER NOW
TIM TURK SHOOTING AND SCORING, SESSION 1, FALL PRE SEASON PREP (2019-2016)
Looking to improve your shooting technique, accuracy and score more goals? Cutting Edge can help you do that with our Tim Turk Shooting and scoring classes. Increase your shooting velocity, learn to pick the corners and add deception to fool goalies with our instructors Trent Sheldon and Ryan Penny who are trained in the Tim Turk Shooting methods:
When: Saturdays, 230-330 pm
Start date: Saturday, September 6
End Date: Saturday, October 11
Cost $240 + hst
TIM TURK SHOOTING AND SCORING, SESSION 2, FALL PRE SEASON PREP (2015-2013) Looking to improve your shooting technique, accuracy and score more goals? Cutting Edge can help you do that with our Tim Turk Shooting and scoring classes. Increase your shooting velocity, learn to pick the corners and add deception to fool goalies with our instructors Trent Sheldon and Ryan Penny who are trained in the Tim Turk Shooting methods:
When: Sundays, 3-4 pm
Start date: Sunday, September 7
End Date: Sunday, October 12
Cost $240 + hst