The English River Miners open a new SIJHL season this weekend with training camp in Vermilion Bay.
There will be several new faces who will take part in the three day session at the Woodland Arena.
Coach and GM Derek Sweet-Coulter begins his second tenure with the Miners and stresses this is an exciting time of the year.
Sweet-Coulter says he’s got guys coming in from all over the country.
He says a heavy emphasis during the off-season was solving their offensive woes from last year.
Sweet-Coulter believes they have met that need and he will be looking for scoring and creative plays from his kids starting Friday.
He adds building team chemistry and getting players into game shape are other priorities.
Sweet-Coulter says he will also start looking at possible line combinations.
The camp ends Sunday with a ‘Black and Gold’ inter-squad game at 11 o’clock.
Here is the weekend schedule from www.englishriverminers.com
DAY 1 Friday, September 2nd
Registration at 4p. Info session at 5p.
Group 1 Drill session 6p – 7p
Group 2 Drill session 7p – 8p
DAY 2 Saturday, September 3rd
Fitness testing in the morning. Inter-squad games to follow. Each team will play four 1 hour games (two 30 min periods). Goalies split all games.
Player interviews after completion of day 2. Releases will be made.
7A Team Orange Fitness Test
8A Team Black Fitness Test
9A Team Yellow Fitness Test
Game #1 – 10:00a – 11:00a Black vs Orange
Game #2 – 11:30a – 12:30p Black vs Yellow
Game #3 – 1:00p – 2:00p Orange vs Yellow
Game #4 – 230p – 330p Orange vs Black
Game #5 – 345p – 445p Yellow vs Black. 1st period 4vs4, 2nd period 3vs3. No shootout.
Game #6 – 5p – 6p. Yellow vs Orange. 1st period 4vs4, 2nd period 3vs3. No shootout.
DAY 2 – COMPLETE AT 6p with player interviews to follow. You will be notified after your last game if you are selected for an interview.
DAY 3 Sunday, September 4th.
11A – 1P BLACK AND GOLD GAME. Full regular game.
DAY 3 – COMPLETE AT 1p.
EXIT Meetings begin at 130p.
* If you’re selected to the team you will be required to stay in the Vermillion Bay area on Sunday night and practice with the team from 12p – 2p on Monday September 5th. After practice has concluded there will be a short team meeting and players will then travel together to Red Lake to their billet homes.
