About Us

The Selects Hockey program is honoured to be affiliated with the oldest and most respected Provincial Junior A hockey club in Ontario, the Burlington Cougars. The Burlington Cougars have a rich tradition in developing coaches and hockey players and promoting them to their next level of hockey, be it the OHL, NCAA assisting them in their goals to reach their maximum potential. A number of Burlington Cougar graduates have and are currently playing in the NHL and every year this number is growing.

Therefore it is only natural that this successful formula be made available to all aspiring hockey players at a younger age. The formula is simple. A focus on development with professional instruction in a state of the art facility and you are guaranteed results. In addition to being directly affiliated with the Burlington Cougar Junior A hockey team, the Selects Hockey Program is also proud to be directly affiliated with Wave Hockey, owners of 2 state of the art ice facilities in Burlington that include 3 NHL sized ice surfaces, 2 real Ice shooting pads, Ontario's first Twist Sport Conditioning facility, 2 restaurants, a proshop and Ontario's first Woodway skating treadmill.

In addition to all this, the Selects Hockey program has partnered with the best of the best on-ice and off-ice instruction available in Canada. Selects Hockey players will receive on-ice Power Skating instruction from professionally certified High Performance power skating instructor, former NHLer (Florida Panthers), Nick Smith. Your hockey player will also receive shooting instruction from Professionally Certified ProShooters shooting instructor, Jeremy Miedema. Off-ice instruction will be provided under the direction of Scott Atkins, Twist Master Coach and former OHL hockey player. Twist Sport Conditioning is owned by Canada's premier sport conditioning guru, Mr Peter Twist, who spent 12 years as a conditioning coach in the NHL.

As you can see, we are absolutely dedicated to ensure that your hockey player receives the best training available. In today's environment, in order to reach your maximum potential, training and conditioning is a year round requirement. As you know playing games does little to develop skills and 99% of your hockey player's speed, agility and core body strength development will occur during practices and off-ice training sessions. Our program ensures your hockey player will not only improve his skills but will also create friendships that will last a lifetime.