ITR 26ers AAA Hockey

Best of Thomas Vanek Highlights

Vanek NHL Scoring Highlights

Vanek Gopher 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

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

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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

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" 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

Thomas Vanek Summer Skills Camp

2 Locations: Marriucci Ice Arena June 2010 - Stillwater Recreation Center August 2010

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

Skill Development

ITR 26ers AAA Hockey Tryouts & AAA Hockey Camps

Get Extra Ice July thru August

• Elite Power/Speed/Agility Skating Training

(a few spots available up thru the third week of July)

ITR Summer Ice Training (Get Extra Ice)
Openings still available during weekly sessions: (Online signup)

Training Dates: Now thru mid August
Ice Times: 8:00 am - 11:00 am, M-F (days subject to change)
Duration: Daily (Up to 10 hrs of training per week)
Location: Shakopee Arena (All sessions)
Rate: $150.00 Week Pkg. (A $15.00 per hour ice value)

*The week package includes 5 days of training which can be taken in nonconsective days. All session do not have to be taken in a row. Fit to your schedule.

Thomas Vanek Skills Camp

New Camp Coming in August! (Camp to be held in Stillwater)
(Held by Thomas Vanek and his personal staff)

Behind the Mask Goalie Instruction

Behind the Mask is running goalie instruction Monday thru Friday during the Month of July, 2010. Instructor Maxi Reiter, from Austria, a protege of Bernd Bruckler and Paul Courville is here to share his experience and knowledge with BTM goalies. Maxi is instructing goaltenders in low number groups to help each attendee maximize their learning curve.

Day Instruction Specifics:

Instruction Days: Monday thru Friday

Dates: Now thru July 30

Groups: Low numbers (average 2 - 6 goaltenders)

Training Time: 8 am thru 11:00 am

Location: Shakopee Ice Arena

5-Day Package: $490.00 (can be taken in non-consecutive days; instruction value per hour $39.50)

Date Rate: $100.00

Player Evaluation & Practice Sessions

View the ITR Calendar for ice times available at your birth level. Practice sessions available for 2001 thru 1994 birth years. Ask about tournament position availabilities.