Alannah Jensen
Tucker Hockey
Head Instructor Profile
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Get to know Alannah Jensen, one of Tucker Hockey's Head Instructors.
Alannah has been involved with Tucker Hockey for nearly 20 years!
First as a youth player participant and later becoming an apprentice on ice instructor – demoing skating skills and helping the young kids.
She has progressed from an apprentice instructor to an assistant instructor to a very competent head instructor.
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Tucker Hockey is excited to offer a NEW Hockey Development Program for Summer 2024!
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Quickness, Speed &
Small Area Games
Suitable for Players:
- 2nd yr U13 - U18 (2007 - 2012)
This is a specialized technical skating and tactical skating game program. This program focuses on specific forward skating and backward skating skills - mainly quickness & speed development - as well as small area tactical game play.
The program is designed to help players improve their foot speed and overall striding speed both forwards and backwards. In addition, to elevate their tactical skating / game play from participating in a variety of tense / challenging small area games.
This curriculum consists of 5 key components:
1: Tactical / Game Skating (10%)
2: Forward Technical Skating (25%)
3: Backward Technical Skating (25%)
4: Resistance Training (10%)
5: Small Area Games (30%)
This program is 4 sessions in length and runs Tuesday September 3, Wednesday September 4, Friday September 6 and Saturday September 7, 2024.
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2024 IIHF Men's World Hockey Championship
"An Experience of
a Lifetime!"
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Coach Rex and his Czech family took in the 2024 IIHF Men's World Hockey Championship that took place in the beautiful city of Prague, & Ostrava, Czechia this spring. Rex put in many "hours of love" to secure tickets and work out logistics to attend this event!
Although Canada did not bring home any hardware, the host country did! For a Canadian / Czechia mixed family, the games were bittersweet, but an experience of a lifetime!
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Coach Rex's Corner
Critical Years of
Hockey Development -
Ages 7 to 12
For an aspiring hockey player, the timeframe between the early years of 7 to 12 are extremely important for hockey development, especially if a player dreams of someday playing city quadrant hockey, junior A, collegiate, semi - pro or ultimately in the NHL. Yes, the higher the level of play the greater are the incredible odds of reaching one’s lofty goals.
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Coach Rex feels the following are the most significant for proper early hockey development:
- Positive initiation
- Proper equipment
- A fun, positive learning environment
- Friendship and social
- Acquires a love for the game
- Healthy family support
- Good instruction / Coaching / Mentoring
- Athleticism
- Personality traits of the player
- Lastly - Luck and fate!
There are so many variables which determine whether a player will be successful in the game of hockey. Many things the player can control while other things are completely out of his or her hands. The key is always enjoying and doing your very best if you wish to achieve success. When you do your best you should not have any
regrets but countless fond memories from participating in the wonderful sport of hock
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The Tucker Hockey Mission Statement:
Through The Tucker Hockey Way:
- Instilling the love and passion for hockey
- Being inclusive to all ages, background & skill levels
- Improving hockey and life skills in a positive learning environment
This is our Legacy of Values.
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Tucker Hockey
Classic Awards
Quarterly Awards
Bradley Mersereau Memorial
Adult Award:
2024 Q2 Recipient
Melissa Sawatzky
Read more on Melissa HERE!
Danny Cammack Memorial
Minor Award:
2024 Q2 Recipient
Brayden Meheriuk
Read more on Brayden HERE!
Yearly Awards
David Mahoney On Ice Head Instructor Leadership Award
2023 Recipient
Mike Proudley
Lyle Hanna On Ice Assistant Instructor Memorial Award
2023 Recipient
Alannah Jensen
Read more on Alannah HERE!
Ern Rideout On Ice Apprentice Instructor Memorial Award
2023 Recipient
Faith Greenough
We are very happy to acknowledge participants and instructors
who love the game as much
as we do through our
Tucker Hockey Classic Awards.
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Bradley Mersereau Memorial 2024 Q2
Adult Award Recipient
Melissa Sawatzky
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Melissa grew up playing sports, but never explored hockey. Once she became a parent and her kids got into skating / hockey she decided it was time for her to learn as well!
Although she enjoyed playing shinny, Melissa felt it wasn't improving her game. Melissa ended up participating in one of Tucker Hockey's "Ladies Only" programs and knew that she had found a place that was both encouraging and challenging and has been participating in Tucker Hockey programs ever since!
Thank you Melissa for trusting the "Tucker Hockey Way" for your hockey development for the past 2+ years and congratulations on being awarded the Bradley Mersereau Memorial Award!
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Tucker Hockey’s 2024 3 on 3 Spring season wrapped up on Saturday June 1st, 2024, at Edge Arena.
Each of the 8 teams played an exciting 40-minute game during their last session which showcased how much development all the players gained.
Both the 2nd yr U11 – 1st yr U15 and 2nd yr U15 – U18 group had a Championship Trophy Game as well as Awards for the player(s) that scored the most goals, the player(s) that had the most assists, the most improved player, and the most sportsmanlike / hardest worker throughout the program.
We enjoyed watching all the players work hard developing their skills and tightening up their game play with our fast paced 3 on 3 shifts.
Click link below for photos of all the teams and individual award winners.
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Danny Cammack
2024 Q2
Memorial Minor
Award Recipient
Brayden Meheriuk
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Brayden started his hockey journey at the age of 4 in Toronto with the North York Knights. His family has since moved to Calgary and Brayden was most recently with the Glenlake Hawks.
Through hockey, Brayden has made lifetime friendships. This along with life lessons such as discipline, teamwork, and perseverance highlight was he loves about the incredible sport of hockey!
Brayden joined the Tucker Hockey team as an Apprentice Instructor this spring as well as continuing his personal development participating in our spring 3 on 3 program. We are trilled to have Brayden as part of the Tucker Hockey family both as player and an instructor!
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In the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Finals, who did you cheer for?
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Results from Q1 2024 Poll |
The 2024 NHL Playoffs Start Up Saturday April 20th - who will win the Stanley Cup?
Results from the poll:
Boston Bruins & Other - 11.5 %
Carolina Hurricanes, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks, Vegas Golden Knights & Winnipeg Jets - 9.8 %
Florida Panthers - 8.2 %
The lowest voted for team is your 2024 Stanley Cup Champions!!
Congratulations Florida Panthers!
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Don't Miss out on Calgary's Premier Hockey Development this Summer! |
Summer group programs are
available for registration now!
Registration deadlines are as early
as SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 2024.
Don't Delay -
Register TODAY!
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Minor
Minor Summer group programs start as early as Tuesday August 6, 2024!
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Adult Summer group programs start as early as Monday August 26, 2024! |
Looking forward to seeing you at the rink in 2024! |
The Calgary Buffaloes
Road to the 2024
U18 Men's National
Telus Cup
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The road to the Telus Cup is not for the faint of heart and the 2023-2024 Calgary U18AAA Buffaloes, aka “The Buffs”, have firsthand knowledge of this! |
Tucker Hockey's Office Manager / Administrator, Candace DiGiacomo, shares her first hand parent's perspective of the Buffaloes very successful 2023-2024 hockey season. Read more about the Buffs incredible season and Telus Cup expereince! |
Adult Group
Program Testimonial
"I recently attended the Adult Fundamentals and Specialty Skills programs. I really enjoyed the sessions and the coaching; I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. I’m grateful that Tucker Hockey provides programs for Adults who want to better their hockey skills and have more fun playing the game.
Finding quality coaching programs for those who have aged out of minor hockey or who are finding hockey later in life can be challenging. Tucker Hockey does an incredible job of meeting players where they are. Having played house league for 10 years, and men’s league for another 20, I was going into the programs with an open mind ready to correct my built-up bad habits and take in new learnings. My last couple of seasons have felt a little blah, I felt slower, less effective, and less engaged in the play.
I found the program structure really valuable, and I loved the focus on repetition and progression, it was a perfect approach to break down any bad habits and reinforce the proper mechanics. Through the 16 sessions, I picked up new skills, polished a LOT of old ones, and have a renewed vigor for hockey.
I wanted to express my sincere gratitude to Rex, Ron, Jimmy, Frank, Bobby, Mike, Korwin, Carter, Faith, and Alannah for all your guidance, professionalism, and passion for what you do. You helped reignite my passion for hockey and I’m feeling more confident than ever going into this upcoming season.
For any player of any skill level, I would highly recommend Tucker Hockey for your hockey development needs. Thanks so much!"
~ Andrew L. – Spring 2024
Minor Group
Program Testimonial
“Tucker Hockey truly has the best program and we’ll be back next year. All the Coaching staff are beyond remarkable to teach any age and combination of ages in groups like power skating.
I wanted to reach out today to say give a shout out to Korwin, what incredible mentor. All week he’s gone the extra mile with Gavin and today blew me away. He pushed Gavin remarkably well to the point Gavin called me over to say he couldn’t do dryland this evening in Strathmore. The technique Gavin left the ice with tonight was a huge thanks to your team and to Korwin who worked a lot with Gavin.
I could see many parents smiling while they all had fun. That’s what hockey is about, having fun and learning. Thank you.”
~ Claudette T., Mother to Gavin
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Tucker Hockey Offers Exceptional Value with our Hockey programs!
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Experience the
Tucker Hockey Difference TODAY!
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