Makivik Magazine Issue 102

Nunavik Hockey
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NYHDP Girls Midget Nordiks, 2014 Kanata Bell Sensplex girls’ hockey tournament champions.
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PETER NAPARTUK
A regional select component was initiated when it
was decided to include the Nunavik Peewee team as an
integrated part of the NYHDP. Since the first two years
of the program were a pilot project, only one Nunavik
team was established for year one, and an Atoms and
a Peewee team in the second year. The Select program
always included an initial tryout camp held early in the
season, followed by a second camp a couple of months
later. After the final rosters are completed, the selected
players are invited for a weeklong preparation camp during
the week prior the tournament down south.
That approach has not really changed over the years.
All tryouts and training camps are held in Kuujjuaq. The
youth travel on Air Inuit from their respective villages.
The camps include on-ice practice as well as classroom
work. The on-ice sessions are typically used for hockey
skills development and to give the youth an opportunity
to demonstrate their abilities and potential. This allows
the staff to properly assess the youth and help them to
improve. The specific framework of the on-ice Select component
is used the same way for all five Nunavik Nordiks
teams. It offers different levels of teaching depending of
the group’s capabilities.
The first camps are intensive weekend tryouts where
as many as 50 kids are invited. The focus is put on individual
skills such as skating, puck handling, shooting
and passing. Hockey abilities and human skills are assed
so teams can be adequately selected. An average of 20
participants per team are invited to the second camps,
which occur on weekends. The focus is directed more
towards teamwork.
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Training and coaching certification for local hockey trainers.
The third camps are for tournament preparation. Only
the final rosters formed of nine forwards, five defence and
two goalies are invited. During those weeklong camps, our
task is to take 16 kids coming from all over Nunavik and
develop a hockey team capable of winning. To achieve
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