Estonian National Hockey team candidates have all received personal training programs a few months ago to follow on top of their own club practices. Last month head coach Ismo Lehkonen also demonstrated the moves to players in a dryland training session at Savonlinnna, Finland during our weekend game and practice trip to Finland.
For us coaches it is clear that if our players take care of their training, nutrition and rest like professional athletes do and like they have been instructed, we can expect good results from the upcoming Div-II World Championships in April at Tallinn.
This additional and personal training is a must for team Estonia members in order to have the needed stamina and skating power we need to follow the game plans/system that has been designed for the team.
We have also made a decision to focus on quality on everything we do and therefore we decided not to participate at the February tournament in Lithuania as we would have not been able to get all the best Estonian players from foreign leagues to join the team for that tournament. Savonlinna already did teach us a lesson in December and we know now that we need those players from overseas in order to have a good and competitive Team Estonia!
Before we start our training camp at Tallinn in April to get ready for the games we will organize 1-2 events for the players from Estonian league, but it is really up to our players now to work hard on their own and get them ready for the upcoming World Championships so that we can have a team and results we can all be proud of!
