CALGARY (660 NEWS) — Hockey Alberta’s cancelling of the winter season has many minor hockey gamers seeking to the spring improvement season to get in some ice-time.
Nevertheless, the altering restrictions are making it exhausting for hockey camps to plan as a result of they don’t seem to be positive what to anticipate, and they should have gamers registering now.
Duane Sutter with Sutter Expertise Growth Camp says they’ve put collectively a COVID-19 plan for his or her camp, which can run for six weeks in south Calgary in Could and June.
“Plenty of issues change on the fly. Final spring, we had the camp able to roll, and we needed to cancel it as a result of COVID state of affairs inside 48 hours, we refunded the entire households, which was very useful to them. This yr our Sutter Expertise improvement crew has developed a COVID dedication, and it’s backed by a no-risk refund to hitch the ability program,” Sutter mentioned.
They’ve additionally posted their whole COVID-19 coverage on their web site.
He says though their camp in south Calgary isn’t till Could and June, they should get gamers registered now.
“It’s a serious dedication to seek out and buy ice across the metropolis. We now have been fairly lucky to safe ice in Lake Bonavista and De Winton Scott Seaman Area,” he said.
He says there are plenty of issues that must be organized forward of the camp.
“You additionally need to order jerseys and swag due to the delay resulting from COVID, so now we have to plan to order early, and so the registration dedication is important to be able to make these plans,” he defined.
Sutter says they’ll comply with the rules laid out by Alberta Well being Companies and the arenas the place they’re planning.
