01 The coaches

Who you are on the ice with

Pedigree is the
price of entry.
Attention is the product.

Anyone can put a former pro in front of a player for an hour. What matters is whether that person sees what is actually going wrong, says it in a way a fifteen year old can use, and is there again next week.

NEXTERA is small on purpose. These are the people who do the work.

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02 The roster

Three people,
one standard.

Tiia Hurme watching from the bench during an on ice skating session

Skating advisor

Tiia Hurme

The figure skating coach NHL forwards fly home to work with every summer.

Hurme came to hockey from competitive figure skating, which is why the players who need her most are the ones who already skate well. Out of Turku, she has spent her career taking apart the stride at every level, from seven year olds through Liiga and into the NHL. Finland calls her the luisteluguru.

Her first correction is nearly always the same. Players are taught to sit low, and a hip that never resets burns the legs out by the second period. She rebuilds the posture, then the edges, so the stride costs less. In her words: when the skating is in good shape you do not tire, and you have more time to follow the game. That is why she is an advisor here and not a guest clinician. Fix the skating and the player gets time back, and time is what seeing the ice is made of.

Based
Turku, Finland
Background
Competitive figure skating
Works with
Mikko Rantanen, Artturi Lehkonen, Rasmus Ristolainen, Kaapo Kakko
Also
Mikko Lehtonen, two time world champion and Olympic gold medallist
Specialty
Economical skating: posture, stance, edge work
Ty Schultz in China's number 77 during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

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.

Position
Defence, right shot
From
New Westminster, BC
Drafted
First round, 16th overall, 2012 WHL Bantam Draft, Medicine Hat Tigers
Junior
Medicine Hat Tigers, WHL, three seasons
Pro
Beijing KRS, VHL. Kunlun Red Star, KHL
International
China, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Also known as
Zheng Enlai, the name he plays under for China
Andrew Kemp, on ice coach at NEXTERA Hockey

On ice coach

Andrew Kemp

The coach your player will actually see the most.

Kemp does the work the results are made of. On the ice, week after week, with the players trying to get somewhere. That consistency is worth more to a fourteen year old than any clinic.

He puts skill and strategy on the same footing as the things that are harder to teach. Hard work. Perseverance. Showing up on a Tuesday when nothing about it feels dramatic. Direct about the standard, patient about the timeline.

Focus
On ice development
Coaches
Skill and strategy, plus habits and work ethic

Your next era of hockey starts now

Get on the ice
with them.

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