Summer Hockey Camps in Canada

Ice hockey is thought to have begun in Canada by a man named Pierre Lapin who used a bent stick to shoot objects across the ice. The Canadian ice hockey team won the 1920 World Hockey Championship at the Olympic Summer Games in Belgium. It's no wonder that with such a strong hockey background, Canada offers many summer hockey camps to encourage future players. Canadian summer hockey camps cater to beginning players, elite players and level in between.

  1. Hockey Montreal

    • Hockey Montreal runs a summer hockey camp with four sessions each in July and August. Potential campers can select from various programs such as Junior, which caters to younger players just starting their hockey playing, to Forward Elite, which polishes the existing skills of experienced skaters who play the forward position on a hockey team. Hockey Montreal also runs a Goalie camp, which focuses on guarding the crease and controlling pucks. Bus service to and from the camp is available for an additional fee.

      Hockey Montreal

      8615 Devonshire

      Ville Mont-Royal QC

      H4P 2L3

      514-733-7222

      hockeymontreal.com

    Canlan Ice Sports

    • Canlan Ice Sports offers summer hockey camps in June, July and August. Their High Performance Hockey Skills Camp focuses on power skating and controlling the puck while passing. They also offer a Skating, Shooting and Scoring camp to help payers fine tune their scoring abilities. Players who are looking to play in a hockey league that allows body checking might be interested in the Body Contact and Checking Clinic that focuses solely on in-game body checks, how to prevent them and how to recover from them. Each all day camp comes with the option to purchase a meal plan for the campers at an additional cost. Campers in half-day camps need to provide their own snacks.

      Canlan Ice Sports

      1120 Martin Grove Road

      Etobicoke, ON M9W4W1

      416-247-5742

      icesports.com

    Okanagan Hockey School

    • The Okanagan Hockey School sponsors a summer camp in Edmonton, Canada called the Edmonton Oilers Hockey School, which runs from July through August at the Service Credit Union Place. The four camps offered at this school are for regular skaters, elite skaters, goaltenders and those just beginning the sport of hockey. While at camp, players will work on puck handling and shooting coordination, followed by a daily lecture that reinforces what was learned on the ice. Campers also participate in off-ice conditioning and receive awards at a ceremony held after the last game at camp.

      Okanagan Hockey School

      201-853 Eckhards Avenue West

      Penticton, BC V2A 9C4

      250-493-1408

      hockeyschools.com