New Cyclone 4's Program (March, 2008)

Cyclone Hockey of Minnesota is excited to announce that Rick Hill has accepted the position of Director of Player Development for the Cyclone 4’s Program. Rick is a distinguished and highly recognized girl’s hockey pioneer with 27 years of coaching experience. His resume includes coaching some of Minnesota's most competitive girl's hockey players at the highest levels in North America. Multiple tournament championships and individual honors have been won by his players over the years. In addition to his outstanding coaching record, Rick is an accomplished scout and talent evaluator.

Cyclone Hockey is excited to promote the continued growth of girls/women’s hockey by adding new and innovative developmental programs. Rick’s coaching experience, hockey knowledge and expertise is an ideal fit with the Cyclone Hockey philosophy and the progressive expansion of hockey playing opportunities for girls/women.

Scott Bond, Co-founder Cyclone Hockey of Minnesota

GDI Hockey (February, 2008)

Goaltending is the most technical position in hockey. Proper execution of the position requires guided repetition with exceptional and detailed instruction. Unfortunately, the position is often the most overlooked and neglected in many developmental practice plans. To promote an all encompassing developmental program, Cyclone Hockey has contracted with GDI Hockey to offer goalie specific training.

GDI Hockey is a world-leader in goaltender training. GDI has trained goalies ranging professional to beginners. Currently, more than 100 GDI trained goalies are playing in the NHL, European Pro Leagues, Minor League Hockey and the NCAA Division I. GDI is an established goalie training program that originated in Western Canada and has expanded across North America to offer the most comprehensive goalie training program available.

Each Cyclone Hockey goalie will receive 10 plus hours of individual on-ice skill development and goalie mentoring from skilled GDI instructor Matt Millar. Matt will provide a structured progressive developmental plan customized to the unique demands of the position to improve performance efficiency. The progressive plan will include dryland drills to provide quality repetition to reinforce on-ice instruction to offer a complete program of goalie specific skills.

Cyclone Hockey of Minnesota is excited about working with GDI Hockey. Not only do they offer skill development, they place an emphasis on the mental approach to the position to develop the complete athlete. GDI is, without a doubt, a world-class developmental program.

Scott Bond, Co-founder Cyclone Hockey of Minnesota

New Training Facility (October, 2007)

Cyclone Hockey of Minnesota announces today that Schwan’s Super Rink and the Herb Brooks Training Center will serve as our official performance training facilities to help our team members reach their ultimate goals as elite hockey players.

“Schwan’s is the largest arena complex in North America. Its convenient location and eight ice sheets will allow each of our teams to train in one facility on a set schedule. This is an advantage for the multi sport athlete. Schwan’s is an unrivaled, world class sports facility.”

“The Herb Brooks Training Center was designed by world renowned experts in the area of exercise physiology and sports performance. It is one of the most complete state-of-the-art hockey dryland training facilities in America. Each Cyclone team will be scheduled for a weekly 90 minute dryland session throughout the summer. This facility provides the highest standard in coaching and training designed to improve explosive speed, power, strength, agility and reinforce the phenomenon of muscle memory. We are ecstatic to have partnered with the ultimate hockey training facility in North America.”

Scott Bond, Co-founder Cyclone Hockey of Minnesota