ITR 26ers AAA Hockey Tryouts

2012 Teams are being formed now in preparation for the upcoming AAA hockey season. ITR26ers supports birth years and teams from 2002 thru U18.

00 - 02's Evaluations & Placements

Date:	Day:	Time:
January 22, 2012	Sunday	9:20 am
February 12, 2012	Sunday	8:10 am
February 26, 2012	Sunday	8:10 am

98 - 99's Evaluations & Placements

Date:	Day:	Time:
February 12, 2012	Sunday	9:10 am
February 26, 2012	Sunday	9:10 am

ITR26ers ice sessions will be held at the LumberYard Sports Center, 1650 Washington Ave, Stillwater, MN 55082.

To register for Evaluations Click here.

Accepting AAA Player Requests

Please fill out the Player Consideration Form

2012 Format: Most teams will encompass a three tournament schedule (Spring/Summer, Summer and Summer/Fall) with availability for team training/practices at Mariucci Arena with Thomas Vanek and his staff.

Birth years for the 2012 season are planned for 01 through U18's. If you are interested in playing on an ITR26ers team please fill out the Player Consideration Form and a representative will respond.

Thank You! We are looking forward to the 2012 AAA hockey season.

ITR26ers at the LumberYard in Stillwater, Minn

ITR26ers AAA Hockey and Training at the LumberYard, Stillwater, Minn

The ITR26ers are excited to announce that Thomas Vanek is a Part-Owner of The LumberYard training facility in Stillwater Minnesota!!

Reserve your spot today by filling out our Player Profile form with a player deposit online at www.itr26ers.com birth years limited to 95’s-03’s

Value Package: $895.00 ($100 deposit)

50 hours total training & team activities

Elite Summer Package: $1200.00 ($150 deposit)

70 plus hours training & team activities

ITR26ers Evaluation ice sessions, for the above packages, will be held at the LumberYard Sports Center, 1650 Washington Ave, Stillwater, MN 55082. To register for Evaluations Click here.

2010 26ers Highlights: Year 1- Birth Years U18 - 93-94-95-96-97-98-00-01

FILL OUT OUR PLAYER PROFILE FORM TODAY!!!

Stu Ronsberg, Head Coach, Twin City Steel JR-A Hockey instructs 00 -02's in evaluations

Best of Thomas Vanek Highlights

Vanek Gopher Highlights

Vanek NHL Scoring Highlights

Thomas Vanek Coaching 00 26ers - St Croix Cup 2010

Thomas giving pre-game instruction

Were gonna get one boys!! Stay with it....

Some tips from a 2 time NHL 40 goal scorer

That wasn't a penalty?

Get ready... your up next!!

2nd Place Pictured with Danny Irmen

2001 Team Highlights

3rd Place MN Independant Classic 2010 "You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip." ---Bud Wilkinson

2000 Team Highlights

2nd Place St Croix Cup Pictured with Thomas Vanek - Participants: International Cup - St Croix Cup " “You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.” Bob Nelson

1998 Team Highlights

Participants MN Independent Classic - International Cup - St Croix Cup - " Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. " - Tom Krause

1997 Team Highlights

Participants: MN Independent Classic - ICup Open - Easton Cup Invite "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." ~Henry Ford

1996 Team Highlights

96 26ers 1st Place St Croix Cup 2010 - 4place ICup Open Pictured with Jake Taylor - Participants: MN Independent Classic - MN Meltdown - I Cup - St Croix Cup “Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.” Malcolm Forbes

1995 AAA Team Highlights

1st Place Easton Cup Invite Champions - 1st Place Independent Cup Invite Champions: "Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. " ~Casey Stengel

1995 Team Highlights

1st Place MN Meltdown Open - 2nd Place Border Battle Open - 2nd Place Icup Open - 4th Place St Croix Cup : " As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others." ~Robert Brault

1994 Team Highlights

2ndPlace Border Battle Pictured with Finnish Select Team "When all is said and done, it's not the shots that won the championship that you remember, but the friendships you made along the way." ---Unknown

1993 Team Highlights

Participants MN Independent Classic "High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates." ---Michael Powers

U18 Team highlights

Participants - ICup: Pictured from Left Alex Kangas Gino Guyer Thomas Vanek Jesse Norling " It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." ~ Napoleon Hill

Join our team!!!

" The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. " ~Babe Ruth

2011 - Coming Soon

Fill out player profile form today......"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. " Henry Ford

Off ice Conditioning

On Ice Instruction: 2010 Staff Thomas Vanek - Keith Ballard - Peter Kennedy - Gino Guyer - Jake Taylor - Danny Irmen - Kellen Briggs - Alex Kangas - Paul Martin - Barry Tallackson