The Pursuit of Excellence Hockey Academy does not just teach hockey skills. The on-ice and class room instruction cover every aspect of the game including a wide variety of team systems and team strategies, some of which include:

• Defensive team play including defensive zone coverage, backchecking and tracking through the neutral zone, forechecking in the offensive zone
• Offensive team play including breakout, moving through the neutral zone, attacking the offensive zone
• Entries
• Special team play including powerplay, penalty killing, face-offs
• Other strategies such as gap control, on-ice patience, creating open ice, situations in which to delay, on- ice discipline, use of speed and quickness, use of the neutral zone trap, stretching, etc.

Part of the program includes the players watching some pro games. Players are asked to analyze the game in terms of team systems and team strategies. We discuss some of these games in the class sessions addressing what was and wasn't effective.