Pavel Vorobei

Pavel played professional hockey in the KHL, Finnish League, ECHL and represented Team Belarus in the IIHF World Men’s and Junior competitions. In 2017, he won the World Junior Championship Group B with Team Belarus and became the tournament’s best defenseman. He was also named the best player of Belarus in 2018.

He lived in China for 1.5 years while playing for KHL’s Kunlun RedStar. Pavel was often chosen to participate in shootouts because of his strong shot. 

Pavel specializes in stick handling, passing, corner battles, puck protection, one-on-one battles, body checks, stick positioning, blue line plays, in front of net plays and other defensive skills. 

Over the years, he has worked with elite coaches like Dave Lewis (Detroit Red Wings), Mike Keenan (New York Rangers), Ville Nieminen (Colorado Avalanche), Alexei Kovalev, Alexander Barkov Sr, and Vladimir Bure. 

Pavel is multilingual in English, Russian, and Belarusian. 

Natalia Zagorodnikova

Power skating, and Off-Ice Hockey Specific Training
USA Hockey- CEP Level 4 Ice Hockey Coach
USA Hockey- Certified Ice Hockey Director
Certified “Master of Sport” (Moscow, Russia)

Natalia Zagorodnikova is a native of Moscow, Russia, where she spent her youth skating and training in the rink of Moscow’s premier hockey club, CSKA. Following her competitive career, Natalia decided to bring her experience and knowledge of skating technique to ice hockey, “the greatest sport on earth’”. Natalia went on to work with Finnish and Russian NHL prospects and players, as well as women of both the USA and Finnish National Olympic Teams. Natalia has developed and perfected new teaching methods with a unique approach based on research in neuroscience and biomechanics. From years of collaboration and experience, Natalia has created a slide board system; a combination of on-ice and off-ice hockey specific training; designed to teach skating from its most basic form. This method is extremely functional and efficient for today’s game of hockey which is faster and more agile than ever. Natalia works with all age groups, to help them become more confident in their skating abilities, while reaching for the goal of helping her students become great hockey players.

A few of the athletes who have received 1 on 1 training with Natalia:
Erik Haula – NHL
Roope Hintz – NHL
Nora Raty – Finland Olympic/ National Team
Monique & Jocelyne Lamoureux – USA Olympic/National Team