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Nunavik Hockey
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NYHDP Girls Midget Nordiks, 2013 Kanata Bell Sensplex girls’ hockey tournament champions.
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trainers who would lead them to work hard and persevere,
to teach them important life skills and develop
strong aptitudes in respect to teamwork, tenacity, confidence
and self-esteem.
From 2006 to 2009, trips and hockey tournaments
down south were sometimes difficult and frustrating
because the competition was very often too strong and
uneven for our teams. Without real youth hockey structures
in Nunavik, a lack of available equipment for the
children, mismanaged and broken down facilities, and
a constant turnover of arenas employees, Nunavik had
a long way to go and lots to do in order to bring up its
minor hockey up to a level where the young players could
fairly compete. They needed to develop more self-esteem
while playing the game with more knowledge and a
team concept. With a very little time to put minor hockey
teams together and to adequately prepare our kids to
play against teams coming from elsewhere, the NYHDP
staff had to develop a program in which the participants
could gain enough hockey knowledge, while improving
their physical conditioning and learning to work together
at becoming real teams in less than one week. Knowing
that we had to face teams with records of over 30 games
played by the time we played against them, the challenge
was remarkable but definitely attainable with patience,
hard work and professionalism.
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