Aberdeen Recreation Complex
Aberdeen Recreation Complex houses 2 rinks and is home to an elite on and off ice training center Primal Athletics. The Complex offers a newly renovated All Star Cafe spanning 2 levels to offer customer food and beverage. The upper level holds a multipurpose area and upper viewing area.
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Welcome to Aberdeen Recreation Complex
Aberdeen is a luxe destination for ice sports and training, recreational sports, fun, fitness, and all kinds of events. Our training center is an advanced setting designed to hone and enhance the skills of all ages. Explore all our facilities and activity Centers.
Ice Rinks
Play ice sports in our full 200 x 85 NHL-size ice rink equipped. Our second ice surface is a little more than two-thirds (150 x 58) NHL size. Either rink is available for team or private bookings.
Off Ice Training
Train in our 3000 square foot Primal Dryland training center, built with high-level technology-enabled amenities, features, and more.
Shooting Gallery
Multipurpose Areas
Explore our multipurpose area built to support different recreational and fitness activities like Dance, Taekwondo, and more. It is also a perfect meeting room equipped with a projection screen and TV.
Cafe & Lounge
Savour old favourites and new delicious menu items from our eclectic menu and enjoy our newly renovated family-friendly Cafe and 19+ Lounge.
About Aberdeen Recreation Complex
Aberdeen Recreation Complex is a sports and recreational centre built to foster exceptional ice hockey players, recreation, fitness, fun activities, gatherings, and more. The Aberdeen Recreation Complex finished construction and opened for business in the fall of 2005. It took many volunteer hours, over the years, to fundraise to make this beautiful facility a reality. In July 2022 the building changed ownership. Mr. Wally Mah has a long-term plan of turning the building into a high-performance hockey centre.Â
Aberdeen Recreation Complex houses two ice rinks and a training centre for exceptional ice hockey players and the Primal Athletics training centre for all age groups and skills of athletes. It is also home to Dance Aberdeen, Dynamic TaeKwon Do, Aberdeen Minor Hockey and the All Star Cafe Restaurant and Lounge. We are now operating Year round and look forward to welcoming both new and returning patrons.
Meet Our Team
Our team consists of passionate and enthusiastic individuals who have made significant contributions to shaping renewed Aberdeen Recreation Complex as a prominent hotbed of professional sports and recreation centres in the city.
Bonnie Doige
Arena & Event Manager
Lindsay Pellack
Primal Athletics Training & Program Manager
Our Instructors
Our team consists of highly experienced individuals with extensive experience and mad skill sets. Hone your skills with our experienced instructors.
Mike Tietz
On Ice: Small Group, Team and Private Sessions.
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He has brought success to players of all skill levels from JR to beginner His ability to analyze, adjust and implement altered techniques on-the-fly mid session gives his athletes an upper hand when it comes to personalized skill development
Off Ice: Fitness sessions and off ice shooting in Small Group, Team and Private sessions.Â
In Fitness: Coming from a multi-sport background( Track and field, hockey, powerlifting, wrestling) Coach Mike likes to implement a well-rounded form of training but his specialty is strength building, power and explosiveness. With sports in general, Coach Mike believes that agile, explosive and powerful athletes have an upper hand. Coach Mikes training in the gym reflects this.
Hockey Shot: Coach Mike spent several months in BC getting a first hand look at Connor Bedard’s trainers when Connor was a youth. This along with learning how to analyze the top NHL players shots and put it together into a language that anyone from 5-50 years old can understand, has made him an extremely valuable resource for any age and skill level. Whether you are looking for a minor tweak or a complete video breakdown of mechanics, there is nothing the Hockey Shot room and Coach Mike hasn’t come across without being able to adjust and implement better performance.
Josh Thorimbert - Primal Goalie Instructor
On Ice: small group sessions, private sessions and team practice goalie training.
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Coach Josh has been leading goalies in their development with Primal for the past 3 years, most recently hired to coach with Saskatoon Contacts and Golden Rockets. Josh is a favourite among many. Josh will instruct small groups or private sessions and jump onto the ice for any team practice. We look forward to our daytime Primal Athletics Academy featuring dedicated goalie training.
Off Ice: Goalie 101 classroom style sessions.
Andrii Lupandin
On Ice: small group, team and private sessions in all areas of skating, European Training and Defensive Play.
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He is an outstanding defenceman known for his Superior skating and offensive skills.
Jesse Mychan
On Ice: small group, team and private sessions.
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I look forward to working with all the Primal Athletes and using the knowledge I have acquired throughout my professional hockey career. I have players in 5 European Countries and the AHL, ECHL in North America.
Off Ice: shooting lanes.
Chantel McDougall
Areas: Learn to Skate programs, Skate Performance in Groups, teams or private sessions.
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I have completed my Advanced Coaches Diploma and I hold a trained National Coach Status. Coach Chantel is the Founder, Director and Coach for Channel Performance. I have coached with Skate Saskatoon for the past 13 years. I look forward to helping athletes in all areas of skating with Primal Athletics.
Cam Kayter
On Ice: Group planned skills sessions, team or private sessions.
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In addition to his over 20 years of coaching, he has been a skills instructor for male, female and co-ed groups, a junior scout, and an author of various hockey publications. His skills based technical approach is built around learning and being challenged in a fun and positive environment. Over Cam’s hockey career, he has seen many of his players reach elite levels in U18AAA, Junior, and beyond. Just as importantly, he has enjoyed watching former players become successful adults who are still passionate about the game.
Special Guest Instructor
Trevor Lakness
Coach Trevor visits us from Regina and TS Hockey Shooting where he has over 19 years experience working with over 2000 hockey players from beginner grassroots to 1st round draft picks, NCAA players both male and female up to NHL levels Coach Trevor works on body mechanics, power, quickness, mental and thought processes. He helps athletes focus on space creation to maximize a shot.
On Ice: specialized programs featuring shooting
Off Ice: Group or private sessions
Fitness Sessions
Austen Zentner
A powerhouse in strength and dedication. Coach Austen is a professional kinesiologist and elite strength coach.
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His guidance has led athletes to national podiums and has built a reputation for unwavering support and result driven coaching.
Off Ice in Fitness: small group, team and individual sessions.
Janelle Daelick
As a certified True Movement Instructor and previous True Movement Studio Owner, it is my goal to share my extensive training in mobility and posture to the athletes of Primal Athletics.
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These movements demand more than just muscle, they activate stabilizers, engage the nervous system and strengthen movement patterns that translate directly to performance and injury prevention.
Off Ice in Fitness: small group, team and individual sessions.