The Hockey Development Company is designed to meet the needs of associations, teams, players and coaches.  We provide customized training, helping our clients and students reach their full potential.  Our partners have over a century of combined coaching and playing experience.  We invite you to meet them:

Mike MacMillan

Mike MacMillan brings over twenty years of coaching and player development experience to his position with The Hockey Development Company. 

Mike's high school hockey coaching career began in Menomonie, Wisconsin in 1982 while he was still playing at U.W. Stout.  He then spent seven years in New Ulm, Minnesota as the assistant head coach prior to landing in Buffalo, Minnesota, where he has been the head high school coach since 1996.  Mike serves the Minnesota High School Coaches Association as the Association Coaching Clinic Coordinator and the Section 6A/AA representative.  In 2003, he was honored with the 3M Excellence in Coaching Award.

A leader in the area of player development, Mike was honored with the prestigious Dave Peterson award in 2001 for his service to youth hockey development in Minnesota.  He has served and consulted with a number of different associations and organizations and has been a key figure in elite player development in Minnesota, serving on the council of the Minnesota High School Elite League and as a director for the Elite II league.  Mike boasts over 15 years of experience as the director of various hockey camps and player development programs.

Mike has also served Minnesota Hockey and USA Hockey in a variety of capacities.  He has been USA Hockey's Minnkota District Coach-in-Chief since 1996 and has been a key member on a variety of USA Hockey committees and has contributed to a number of USA Hockey coaching manuals.  On the ice, Mike has been on the staff of Minnesota Advanced 16 team since 1997 and spent three years as the head coach of the Minnesota Hockey District 5 Advanced 15 team.  He currently sits on Minnesota Hockey's Hockey Operations (formerly Player Development) committee.

Mike can be reached at mike@hockeydevelopmentcompany.com.

Larry Hendrickson

Having grown up in Minneapolis, Larry is currently in his first season (in 2004-05) at Benilde-St Margaret's with an impressive collection of coaching experiences. His first coaching position was in 1966, as the head hockey coach at Minneapolis North High School. Since then, he has coached hockey at Richfield, Shattuck-St. Mary’s and Apple Valley, where he lead his team to a state championship and was named Lake Conference Coach of the Year in 1996. Larry has also coached for Team Minneapolis and Team Minnesota. He was a strength and conditioning coach at the University of Minnesota, and a strength and skating coach for the Minnesota North Stars, both in the mid-‘80s, and a strength and conditioning advisor for the USA Olympic Team in 1980. In 1999, he served as the curriculum director for the Herb Brooks Hockey Night in Minnesota Camp.

A national speaker, he has presented workshops on teamwork, motivation, and self-defeating behavior. For the past seven years, he has worked with LH Enterprises, a company that provides workshops to schools and community organizations on building training centers, training curriculum, liability, conduct issues, and equipment options. Since 2002, Larry has been the president of LH Hockey Facilities Development, helping local hockey associations build off-ice training facilities. Other experiences include having been the Buffalo Hockey Association Dryland Development Coordinator (2001-2004), the consultant to RSP Architects for dryland training centers (2003), an instructor for USA Hockey at advanced coaching certification clinics (2002-2003), the skating director for Proctor Hockey Association Fall Overspeed Clinic (2003), and the associate coach-in-chief for off-ice training for the Minnkota District (Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota) for USA Hockey (2003).

Larry holds a degree in social studies, with a physical education minor, from the University of Minnesota, a master’s degree in education from St. Thomas College, and he attended Luther Theological Seminary. He is the father of Darby, a former Minnesota Wild hockey player who now plays for the Colorado Avalanche, and Dan, a four-year Gopher hockey player who also spent three years playing minor league professional hockey.

Larry can be reached at larry@hockeydevelopmentcompany.com.

Pat Westrum

Pat Westrum brings over thirty years of high-level hockey experience to The Hockey Development Company.  During his playing career, Pat spent four years playing for the Minnesota Gophers, where he served as captain of the 1970 WCHA championship team.  He followed up his college success with an eight year professional career, capped by his selection to Team USA in 1978 where he served as an assistant captain and was named the top USA defenseman at the World Tournament.

Pat took a natural course into coaching following his playing days.  He spent fifteen years as a youth hockey coach and was the head coach at Apple Valley High School for four years, guiding his team to the 1996 MSHSL state championship.  Other coaching highlights include eight years on the staff of the Minnkota Select 16's, serving as Director of Hockey for Apple Valley since 2000 and serving as Coach-in-Chief for Minnesota Hockey District 6 since 2002.

Pat is currently a professional scout for the Phoenix Coyotes.  His interests within The Hockey Development Company include player evaluation and elite player development.

Pat can be reached at pat@hockeydevelopmentcompany.com.

Chris Bonnell

Chris Bonnell has been with the Hockey Development Company since it’s inception, and serves as Chief Financial Officer.  His specific program interests lay in the area of player representation, skill development, and program building.

Currently Bonnell is an assistant hockey coach with Buffalo High School, in his second season of his second stint in that role, having previously worked with the team from 1987-1991.  In addition he has served on various boards and committees of the local youth hockey association, and is an active participant in coaching in his local program's pre-season clinics and STP program.

Since 2002, Bonnell has served as the ACE Administrator and Skill Development Program Administrator of USA Hockey’s Minnkota District.  In 2004 he also served as Head Team Leader for USA Hockey’s Select 17 Festival.

At the state level, Bonnell serves as an Assistant Head Coach for Minnesota Hockey, and also is a member of the Hockey Operations Committee.  He has also served as General Manager for various Section 6 teams in the Great 8 Tournament, and the Advanced 16 & 17 programs.

Bonnell has coached at every level from mites to high school, and has coached in West Fargo, North Dakota, Moorhead, Minnesota, the Armstrong program in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, and Buffalo, Minnesota.  He has achieved Level 4 status in the USA Hockey CEP program, and has attended numerous coaching clinics, most recently the National Coaching Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA.

A native of Warroad, MN., where he was a four-sport athlete, Bonnell received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Concordia College-Moorhead, MN in 1987.  At Concordia College he played intercollegiate football at the Division III level for two years.  Chris and his wife, Joni, were married in 1985, and have three children:  Adara, Kory & Michael.

Chris can be reached at chris@hockeydevelopmentcompany.com.

Dan Ackmann

Dan Ackmann has been involved in hockey as a coach, board member or committee chair for over 15 years.  He brings his love of hockey to his position overseeing facility design and development for The Hockey Development Company.

Dan has over 24 years of construction experience, with the past 18 years spent with BOR-SON Construction.  Dan graduated from North Dakota State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Engineering.  Over the past 24 years, Dan has worked on a variety of public and private projects.

Dan is available to consult on facility design and construction projects.  Dan can be reached at dan@hockeydevelopmentcompany.com.

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