2024
Here’s your chance. Join us. Become one of us. Join the On-Ice Movement.
2023
Momentum was on our side and PS was taken flight. New partners in Owen Sound, Kingston, London, and Red Deer gave us wings and culminated with the biggest year in the company’s history. A total of +20,000 athletes served. An increase in Pro services, a deliberate focus on branding awareness, operational streamlining and a continued focus on our R and D initiatives have allowed PS to grow, crave improvement and set us up for a flying 2024!
2022
A year to remember. First franchise partners in the province of Alberta, first partner in the U.S., innovation, a growing HQ team and several new franchise partners in the markets of Calgary, Barrie, Edmonton, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering and Denver, Colorado. Shawn also won the Stanley Cup, beating the Tampa Bay Lightning in a thrilling 6 game series becoming the first NHL Skill Coach to ever etch his name on Lord Stanley’s Cup.
2021
Summer of 2021 felt like the Bryan Adam’s song of Summer of ’69 . Most of all our locations we’re able to resume programming without any restrictions, our athlete and parent families stayed with us and supported our culture all the way through, we are eternally grateful for their support, it felt like a pent-up demand and it sure was! We had the biggest summer in our history and signed our first partner location in the GTA, Etobicoke, PS was back on the move!
2020
Momentum was flowing at the beginning of the year with multiple new franchise prospects looking to join the PS family until provincial regulations and stay at home orders dominated the Canadian landscape because of the Covid-19 pandemic. We stayed steadfast at PS HQ supporting all our locations with financial relief while keeping our athletes on the ice in all locations, when possible, even when we we’re only allowed minimum numbers, we doubled our ice and distributed profits back to our athletes so we could help them get through a challenging time in our world’s history. We kept our HQ team intact and just kept working to improve our systems, our operations, our method, and training systems, with a bright outlook out of the pandemic.
2019
Our first Western Canada location came to fruition in Kelowna, BC our 10th Franchise location, and we had a huge year of elite training for both minor hockey athletes and NHL pros. This was the first year where we had trained over 10,000 athletes across the PS system and we we’re excited about our opportunities for growth.
2018
We got off to a great start, two former NHL’ers brought the method into the Czech Republic, and we secured new locations in Bowmanville and Oshawa. Montreal and the Ottawa Valley we’re on fire and our Ottawa locations continued to grow as did our NHL Pro Services Division. We’d also ramped up our R and D initiatives and added a 2nd revision to the PS training manual. We moved into our new corporate headquarters in
Ottawa and Shawn had signed as a full time Skills Coach with the
Colorado Avalanche.
2017
What a year! PS Franchising became official with our 5 Ottawa corporate locations of Kanata, Nepean, Ottawa Centre, Gloucester, and Cumberland along with locations in Montreal West, Montreal Centre, and the Ottawa Valley. Franchising allowed us to refine and streamline our programming, improve our communication, define relationships, put words to our corporate culture and continue to dynamically improve our coach certification program to ensure brand consistency across all locations.
2016
Our professional services division exploded and had now worked with +200 NHL clients, multiple NHL teams and Olympic federations. Our Ottawa and Montreal locations continued to lead the way and we we’re excited to promote Kyle Allard as a pilot Franchisee in the Ottawa Valley. The response was amazing, and we now had the confidence to continue perfecting the method, our communication, and our operations to provide a business opportunity for entrepreneurs in Canada who’d love to make a difference for athletes in their communities.
2015
In addition to launching our SAM Program Specific to Forwards and Defencemen, Shawn decided to move away from a staff position with the Nashville Predators and become a consultant. With the Nashville Predators still a very important contract and relationship to Shawn, the abundance of NHL players requesting his services needed time and we officially launched our Professional Services Division, where Shawn leads and spends most of his time. While always in constant refinement of our On-Ice Programs, teaching, and Research, 2015 was also a year that we began revising and perfecting our operations with a vision of Franchising.
2014
After much demand from our athletes, we launched our Elite Player Development Program modeled after Shawn’s work with players of the Nashville Predators. The Program was much needed in the industry and really gave our client base a wide array of choices to perfect their development. Going back to our R and D roots we also piloted a project within the analytics community to track Movement Patterns specific to position and in 2015 we officially launched our SAM program specific for forwards and defencemen. We also excitedly promoted our first ever coach
to implant into a new market. After spending a full year as a coach at PS HQ in Ottawa, On, Canada, a young Nathaniel Marx embarked on his journey to share the PS Methodology in his home area of the West Island of Montreal. The expansion was a massive success and today Nathaniel is regarded as the most respected On-Ice Movement and Performance Coach in the Montreal area, serving thousands of athletes in his community.
2013
Always searching for better ways to improve our athletes, we kept on teaching, learning, and growing our ability to deliver messaging to improve our athletes. We also kept aggressively pushing the frontier of R and D and revising and improving our PS and SAM programs.
2012
What an exciting year! With momentum on our side, we decided it was time to validate our method with science and became the first ever organization in the development of hockey athletes to purchase our own proprietary 3D motion capture system and with the help of the University of Ottawa’s school of kinesiology, began an in-depth study to perfect our method. Later in the year we launched our 2nd research driven program in partnership with the Nashville Predators called Small Area Movement, a program that focuses on movement pattern execution within a confined
area or space; it was met with instant success and was a great compliment to our PS program.
2011
Really marked the era of our PS Program offered in Small Group Format. It revolutionized the industry with the exceptional delivery of our method along with the opportunity to give constant positive, detailed feedback in our Small Group Setting. The company grew astronomically and while working with NHL players in Nashville, Shawn’s work caught the eye of then Nashville Head Coach Barry Trotz and they offered Shawn a position on their staff as their Skating and Skills Coach.
2010
In March of 2010, PS was officially born. We incorporated the company and started our first kickoff program in Kanata in Aug of 2010. With Shawn leading the way, those first 48 kids were the start of something special. A brand was born. Shawn also received his first contract in the NHL with the Columbus Blue Jackets; Scott Arniel gave Shawn a chance and is forever grateful.
2009
Shawn continued piloting the system with NHL players but was in constant refinement of the program. Certain correctives worked with a type of asymmetry and body but others did not, he continued to re-work the method with a passion to ensure its transferability to athletes and coaches.
2008
In the summer of 2008, he piloted the first version of the method with the French Olympic Hockey Federation with great success. He decided it was time to try the method with the best player’s in the world. Mike Fisher was Shawn’s first ever NHL Guinea Pig” and he absolutely loved it, “I feel better on my feet” said Fisher. With this renewed confidence it was time to begin sharing the method with athletes in Ottawa, On, Canada, where Shawn and his family decided to settle.
2007-2008
Shawn created the first version of our PS Program while coaching in Epinal, France in the French Elite League. He noticed an inability for long standing Pro’s to control low tempo Movement. He was perplexed and began his journey of understanding general Movement and how its principles affect Hockey athletes. He spent those 2 years on a daily basis, identifying asymmetries in sequence and by trial and error designed correctives to increase their performance. An artist was born.