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Advisor / skating coach

Tiia Hurme

The skating coach top players fly home to work with every summer.

Tiia Hurme is a renowned skating coach with experience spanning from young athletes to NHL players. Known for her precision and expertise, Tiia has worked with top talent, helping them enhance their speed, agility, and technique.

Featured in YLE and The New York Times, Tiia's approach is both technical and adaptable, empowering each athlete to reach their full skating potential. At NEXTERA, she brings world class instruction to players of all levels, focusing on the skills that set elite skaters apart.

Based

Turku, Finland

Works with

Artturi Lehkonen, Rasmus Ristolainen, Mikko Lehtonen, Juuso Pärssinen, Martin Nečas, Aron Kiviharju

Specialty

Economical skating: posture, stance, edge work

Coach

Michael Regush

Surrey, then Cornell, and still making his living at it in Europe.

Regush grew up in Surrey and came through Delta Hockey Academy, the BCHL with Merritt and the USHL with Youngstown before Cornell recruited him. He took the program's award for its most promising rookie, won two Ivy League titles there, and finished his eligibility at Miami in the NCHC.

Vancouver brought him to main camp on a tryout and Abbotsford signed him the season after. He has been a pro in Europe since, with Coventry in the EIHL and now Rouen in France. He came into college a scorer and made himself into the one his linemates play through.

Junior

Merritt Centennials, BCHL. Youngstown Phantoms, USHL

NCAA

Cornell, ECAC — two Ivy League titles. Miami University, NCHC

Pro

Abbotsford Canucks, AHL. Coventry Blaze, EIHL. Rouen, Ligue Magnus

Coach, China

Ty Schultz

A Lower Mainland kid who went first round in the WHL and finished up at the Olympics.

Schultz grew up in New Westminster and came through the Burnaby Winter Club, so the rinks NEXTERA works out of are the rinks he learned the game on. Medicine Hat took him sixteenth overall in the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft. Then China: the VHL with Beijing KRS, two KHL seasons with Kunlun Red Star, and four games for China at the Beijing Olympics, where he played as Zheng Enlai.

He coaches the way a defenceman who has had to survive against better players coaches. Gaps, angles, when to close and when to hold. He runs NEXTERA's work in China, on the same standard and the same film loop as Burnaby.

Drafted

First round, 16th overall, 2012 WHL Bantam Draft

Junior

Medicine Hat Tigers, three seasons in the WHL

Pro

Kunlun Red Star, KHL. China at the Beijing 2022 Olympics

Coach, BC

Andrew Kemp

Known for his dedication on and off the ice, Andrew brings a deep love for the game and a commitment to player development. His coaching emphasises not only skill and strategy but the values of hard work and perseverance.

He services athletes across British Columbia, running off ice workouts as well as on ice sessions. Andrew is dedicated to helping each player reach their potential, and to instilling in them the same passion and drive he brings himself.

Focus

On ice sessions and off ice workouts

Services

British Columbia

Coaches

Skill and strategy, plus hard work and perseverance

Operations

Julius Zhang

A former professional hockey player, Julius brings global experience and a data driven mindset to developing the next generation of hockey talent. He played in the MHL and the VHL across Russia and China, competing at high levels of international junior and pro hockey.

Based in Vancouver, Julius helped found NEXTERA to deliver personalised, high performance training with a modern edge. He believes in detailed video analysis, skill development and game IQ training built around each athlete's goals. His philosophy combines professional level insight, advanced statistics and personal feedback, so a player can see exactly what is holding them back and what to do about it.

Played

MHL and VHL, Russia and China

Based

Vancouver, BC

Focus

Video analysis, skill development, game IQ