Mats Baribeau, owner of GITN Ontario brings 15 years of goaltending experience including instructing at the Int’l Training Centre in B.C., in Quebec and now all year round in Ontario. His knowledge and passion for teaching goaltending techniques allows him to provide training and support through minor hockey clinics, team practices, private lessons and 8 weeks of summer camps. With his determination, Mats and his staff are committed at improving the skills of goaltenders any age or level they have the privilege of working with.
Winter Clinics
Hockey in our communities has come a long way over the years, but what about the goaltenders? Are the goaltenders in your organization getting the attention they deserve? Most communities lack in this area, mainly due to a lack of knowledge or experienced personnel who can teach and communicate not only with goaltenders but the coaches as well. Contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a custom clinic that best suits your organization's needs/budget.
Private/Semi-Private Lessons
Our private lessons give goaltenders the best opportunity to work with a Gold in the Net top instructor. The instructor will customize the drills for each goaltender as they see fit to ensure improvements. These lessons give the goaltender a complete break-down of their style and techniques. This is ideal for any level of goaltender who is seeking the best professional instruction there is to offer in the industry in a 1 on 1 environment. Please call or email us for more information.
Gold in the Net - Ontario
1104 Irace Drive RR#1
Brockville, ON K6V 5T1
Phone/Fax: 613-498-0467
Toll Free: 1-866-466-9955
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Thank you, to you and your entire staff for the great week Joe had at goalie camp! It was very professionally organized and we all learned a lot from it, especially Joe! We really liked the extra perks of the camp - the goalies being greeted at the front door on the first day (which was very welcoming for those little ones who were very nervous about coming to goalie school), and the CD at the end of the week (those long hours that go into them!). Its those little things that put the "icing on the cake" to a great week of goalie learning and fun!
We will see you again soon!
Janel
DARCY CHEEK
Recorder and Times Staff Writer
Mats Baribeau and his family are coming to the end of another busy, successful summer training young goaltenders, but soon will be looking at a year-round venture.
The Brockville session of Baribeau's Gold in the Net program is winding down its eighth week of summer camps for goaltenders this week while the former Brockville Braves netminder is having a year-round facility built on the Second Concession, east of the city.
“It's nice to be so close to home,” said Baribeau, 24, between a sit-down talk and on-ice lesson with a female goaltender at the Centennial Youth Arena on Wednesday.
Baribeau and his mother and father, Chantal and Norm, are a busy trio during the camps, which since its inception a few years ago has been a popular summer attraction for goaltenders from far and wide.
The goaltenders clinic is so established in Brockville that 40 per cent of the goalies attending this year's camp have three years or more of Gold in the Net under their belts.
“It's good to see the kids come back and see the changes,” said Mats of the way returning goaltenders have grown and matured.
Gavin Dwyer is a third-year member of the Gold in the Net program and has come to Brockville from the Northwest Territories the past three years to attend the camp.
Dwyer, 12, could still play peewee hockey but said he moved up to bantam last year because of his skills development.
“It's really fun and I have a lot of friends here,” he said between an on-ice session and classroom lecture on Wednesday.
Dwyer said he came across the Gold in the Net program through a pamphlet in his home arena and had a friend who attended a camp in Edmonton. With a family connection in Brockville, the youngster decided to travel here for the camps.
“It's a lot of the same,” he said of the instruction, “but I keep improving every time.”
The Gold in the Net program – where Baribeau, the head instructor and co-owner of the Ontario franchise, got his first taste of the goaltender clinic – also has been hiring former attendees back into the fold as instructors.
The clinic has always attracted goaltenders from places across eastern Ontario, North Bay, Peterborough, into Quebec and the northeastern U.S., and one of its camps in the Atlantic brought netminder Jay Duffett here from Newfoundland to help out with on-ice instruction.
“He went to a Gold in the Net in the Atlantic,” said Baribeau of Duffett. “He came here one summer and wanted to come back ever since.”
“We've got really good staff,” added Chantal, who was busy trying to prepare a lunch for one group. “The staff makes all the difference. They are so attentive to (players') development.”
The Brockville camp was sold out for its week-long program, which totalled 65 people, including staff.
And while the camp wraps up Friday, the Baribeau's fall will be less than relaxing with a new mini-rink under construction.
Work is in full swing on the 7,000 square foot building east of Brockville. The foundation has been prepared and Baribeau said walls to the complex will be going up in the next couple of weeks.
The project, which has been two years in the planning stages, is expected to be completed by the end of October and will be the only one of its kind between Toronto and Ottawa.
The ice surface will be approximately one-third the size of a regulation hockey rink, where private instruction will be available for netminders from Baribeau and his coaches year-round.
Jay Duffett performing lessons on the ice with Ryley Saumure watching on
Lacroix Sports Ottawa has joined forces with Gold in the Net - Ontario. They will offer GITN students 10%-15% off all in store products.
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