Fall Development
Prepare for the Season — The Right Way
The Bandits Fall Development Program is built to help players sharpen their skills and gain confidence heading into tryouts and the regular season. This is your chance to focus purely on development... no pressure, no crowds, and no expectations. Just you, your effort, and your growth.
There’s no one in the stands, no one to impress. This is your time to try new things, get uncomfortable, and build the skills that will make you a better player when the tryouts begin. This is the time to ask the HUGE Bandits coaching staff for 1:1 help in areas that you know you are need help in.
Our Focus: True Development
Every Bandits session follows a structured, proven curriculum focused on the foundations that make great hockey players: We don’t “wing it.” Every drill, station, and activity is designed to produce measurable improvement. After six weeks of Bandits training, your player will be a better skater — guaranteed.
Our comprehensive Bandits Development Curriculum includes:
✅ Edge Work
✅ Power Skating
✅ Body Mechanics
✅ Strength & Conditioning
✅ Power Skill Development
✅ Small Area Skill Development
✅ Competative Games
Our development program is divided into three levels to ensure every player is appropriately challenged and supported:
- Beginner – Building fundamentals and skating confidence
- Intermediate – Advancing skills, edgework, and game sense
- Advanced – High-tempo drills, elite power skating, and competitive game play
Each 6-week development cycle includes:
✅ 4 on-ice sessions per week
✅ Dedicated dryland training
✅ Small-area skill sessions and full-ice concept drills
✅ Game-day ice sessions - (we will bring teams in from other organizations to play our Bandit players)
We’ve partnered with professional training organizations for power skating, edgework, and off-ice conditioning and we’re proud to introduce elite small-area skill development as part of every program. We guarantee that after six weeks of Bandits development, every player will become a stronger, faster, and more efficient skater.
Goaltender Development
We never forget about our goalies — they’re a critical part of our Bandits family. Each of our programs includes a built-in mini goalie camp, designed to give goalies the same focused attention as skaters.
- The edgework session is the sessions where the goalies get goalie specific training and with small goalie-to-coach ratio.
- Every skill station and small-area game includes goalies, they’re never sitting still or used merely as targets.
- Our goal is a 1:2 goalie-to-coach ratio for maximum attention and feedback.
- Goalies participate in dryland training sessions right alongside skaters to improve strength, mobility, and athleticism.
We’re committed to developing complete goalies, they are not just shot blockers, but game changers.
Affordable. Focused. Family-Oriented.
We keep our programs affordable and accessible, because player growth, not profit is what drives us. We maintain small player-to-coach ratios to ensure every athlete gets personal attention and feedback. Limited spots will be available (30) and they’ll fill quickly.
Join us this season and experience the Bandits difference where development comes first, fun is never forgotten, and every player matters.
Ages
Development programs are for all players from Mites through Bantams. Sessions will be co-ed.
When
Fall Development runs from August through September
Where
On ice practices are held exclusively at the Rochester Recreation Center and 9Hockey.
jerseys
Each player will receive a Bandits hockey jersey.
2026 Fall Development
2026 Fall Development Program Registrations are OPEN!
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