Rougeau Addresses Tiger Paw Elite students

We had a guest speaker of the highest caliber yesterday, Cornell graduate/Team Canada member Lauriane Rougeau (former Lac St Louis Tiger). Lauriane spoke about her path to the Women's National Team, and her recent experience with the Team Canada boot camp! Thank you Lauriane for sharing your experiences!

Here is a brief look at Lauriane's talk with us, follow the link below to our youtube account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XNp_UNhfK4

Former Tiger Paw Student Lauriane Rougeau Speaking at the school today

Former Lac St Louis Tiger defenseman, Cornell graduate with honors, member of the women's National Team, Lauriane Rougeau will be addressing the Tiger Paw Elite Summer Hockey School's Championship habits today.

Lauriane has had a distinguished career to date including four time selection as a second team all American, the only female hockey player to suit up for the Lac St Louis Tigers .

Lauriane has played in two world championships representing Canada, won a gold and a silver and will be centralized next week with the goal of making a spot on the Canadian Olympic hockey team for Sochi 2014.

Tiger Paw Guest Instructor Signs With Tampa, Again

TAMPA BAY – The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed defenseman Mark Barberio to a one-year, two-way contract today, vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced. 

 

 

Barberio, 23, skated in two games with the Lightning during the 2012-13 season, recording one shot on goal. He made his NHL debut on April 9 against the Ottawa Senators at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. Barberio also skated in 73 games with the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League, collecting eight goals and 42 points to go along with 44 penalty minutes. He ranked tied for third in the AHL among defensemen for assists with 34 and ranked sixth for points. Of his eight goals last season, five were recorded while on the power play. Barberio also played in 18 games during the Calder Cup playoffs with Syracuse, notching three goals and 15 points with 18 penalty minutes. He led all defensemen for points, and was tied for first in both goals and assists during the 2013 Calder Cup playoffs.

 

 

The 6-foot-1, 185-pound defenseman has skated in 215 career AHL games with the Crunch and Norfolk Admirals, posting 30 goals and 134 points with 111 penalty minutes. During the 2011-12 season, while playing for the Admirals, Barberio won the Eddie Shore Award as the AHL's top defenseman. He was also part of the Admirals team that won the Calder Cup, registering two goals and nine points in 18 games during the playoffs.

 

 

Barberio was drafted by the Lightning in the sixth round, 152^nd overall, of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. 

Tiger Paw Students Set Goals and Objectives

Each year at the Tiger Paw Elite Summer Hockey School, during Championship Habits, we ask our students to set their goals and objectives for the coming season and beyond.

As you know, goals are not goals until they are written down and there is an accountability factor to achieving them.

Through Championship habits, the dryland sessions and the on ice, we encourage our students to get out of their comfort zone! Increase their speed through the dryland drills and on ice drills! Improve their stickhandling, improve their shot, their compete level...their strength.

In increasing the strength we encourage our students to increase their muscle mass/body weight.

And, many of our Championship Habits explain the merit of pursuing an education for life goals as well as pursuing a long term hockey development approach.

So, you can imagine what the goals and objectives reflect. It appears that the message is getting across!

Every respondent wants to eat better to fuel their body! Many respondents wanted to improve their grades to pursue academic options for hockey and career.

All stated hockey specific improvements, many wanted to increase their muscle mass and add weight to their bodies.

One of the students had these simple goals:
1.) try my hardest at everything I do
2.) be a gentleman
3.) become a lawyer

As you go through the process a few times with students, seeing them pursue academic dreams by the opportunities that hockey presents, is an amazing thing to see. And, if that student becomes a lawyer instead of a professional hockey player, that is just the kind of success that you want to see from your students...or a doctor, or a dentist, or an accountant or any professional pursuit, we would have helped our student achieve their lifetime goals!

One more student story before we go. A female student disclosed, she wants to be the first female General Manager in the National Hockey League.

Leadership Training at the Tiger Paw Elite Summer Hockey School

 

A large component of the Tiger Paw Elite Summer hockey School is the Championship Habits. Our group is made up of captains from professional hockey, to college hockey, three former Tiger captains and a captain from the 2007 Jeux du Quebec girls team to mentor and guide our group into being stronger team mates.

Leadership is a tool that gets you through adverse times, be it as a player or a team...strong leadership supports your team mates when they are having a difficult challenge and the same with the team, the leadership gives hope and direction when the odds are not looking in the team's favor.

 Leadership helps players adjust to new roles, especially when you leave a "smaller pond" where you may have been a "bigger fish" and now are in the "big pond" with a bunch of "big fish". How do you adjust to that different role? The tools that these leaders in our championship habits program provide, teaches the adjustments that are needed and allows for the players to accept the new role without taking a hit to the confidence.

While it is always a simply message, and it is entirely true, every role on the team is vitally important, the leader makes the team understand just how important...and a lot of that work is by demonstrating that now job is too small, no responsibility is too small, as it is all for the team and the team's goals are the objective for everyone wearing those colors...Governor, General Manager, Coaches, players, dry land staff, medical support, EVERYBODY!

These leadership messages can be about, getting your homework done so you do not compromise your training schedule and letting down your team with poor time management skills, not getting the proper amount of rest to recover so that you can compete at your highest level, putting the right nutrition in your body to fuel the elite athlete that you are and making the social sacrifices that your friends don't have to make because they did not elect to pursue the life of an elite athlete...Because, your team and your team mates depend on you delivering on each one of those components if you are going to be a member of their team!

Simple Hydration Can Ward off Injuries! do it, be smart!

Simple Hydration Can Ward Off Injuries:

As we all know, our bodies need to stay hydrated to function.  Approximately 60 percent of our body is water; and approximately 90 percent of our blood is water. Our bodies may lose upwards of two liters of water through sweat in one hour of physical activity. We need water not only for proper function of vital organs, but also to assist with the lubrication of joints, prevention of muscle fatigue and cramps. As you can see, it is very important to keep the body hydrated not just for performance, but also for sustaining life.

The intake of water can assist us in deterring simple muscular injuries such muscle cramps, muscle strains and muscle tears.  These injuries will keep our players off the court/ice.  Simple guidelines for athletic hydration are: encourage pre-activity hydration (recommended to intake 6-8 8oz. glasses of water per day), maintain hydration throughout workouts (about 6 ounces every 15-20 minutes), provide post activity hydration, and drink past thirst.  

 

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Second week underway

The second week of the Tiger Paw Elite Summer Hockey School is underway. The guys start with the fast feet workout with the rope ladder before they go to their dry land session.

Quick feet, agility are keys to separating yourself from your opponent.