Liane Davis Summer Skating - Regina

Stride/Acceleration class July 25-29 ****only one of summer****

Please contact me directly to register. [email protected] 306-591-7716

All groups are sold from July 4 through August 21, 2022.

The excerpt below is taken from a Tanner Jeannot story published in The Hockey News on February 26, 2022 written by Ryan Kennedy.

A link to the full article follows – Ryan Kennedy THN

By the time he was 15, one of his closest friends was Jayden Halbgewachs, who would go on to put up huge numbers as one of Jeannot’s teammates in Moose Jaw and made his NHL debut with San Jose this season.

Halbgewachs also went undrafted in the NHL – he’s small by league standards – but he was fast, and he had a skating coach in Saskatchewan named Liane Davis. Jeannot began working with Davis as well, setting him on the path to future success. “We’ve always thought my acceleration and straight-line speed was pretty good,” Jeannot said. “But I wanted to get quicker, get out of the corners quicker, get out to the point quicker. I’ve worked with her every summer for a long time now, and it’s a lot of edgework and something I’ll continue to do for sure.”

For Davis, seeing Jeannot’s evolution over the years has been gratifying – not only in terms of his skating but also his leadership. “Tanner’s gift is his work ethic,” she said. “From the time I met him, he was always the fittest, always on time, engaged all the time, quiet and attentive. To see him come in this past summer and mentor some of the younger 20-year-old kids was marvelous because he was always pretty quiet and focused. Now, he has blossomed.”

As for the skating itself, Jeannot’s commitment got him the necessary results. “He made a decision three summers ago to really focus on some specifics,” Davis said. “And his little taste of the NHL last year led him to figure out what he needed to do to stay at that level. He spent probably 75 percent of our ice time together this past summer on tight turns, corner work, reverse tight turns, battling and carrying the puck, like ‘This is going to be my game, this is what I have to do.’ And he stuck with it. Tight turns are a skill that can get pretty scary the bigger you get, and I think he stopped using them because they weren’t in his wheelhouse. Then he realized he better get them back in his wheelhouse.”

On their last day together this past summer, Jeannot handed Davis his phone and asked her to film his tight turns while she did voiceover so he could keep working on them during the season.