Michael Lawrence

In 2001, Michael Lawrence developed PRO Goaltending as the premier goaltending school in Ottawa and Toronto. Michael is currently the goaltending coach and consultant for the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Previously, Michael enjoyed time working with HC Sibir Novosibirsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), and the Owen Sound Attack and Sudbury Wolves of the OHL.

Michael’s extensive experience has enabled him to work with NHL, AHL, ECHL and European professional goaltenders from across the world. In the summer of 2011, Michael was part of the coaching staff at Team Canada’s World Junior summer evaluation camp in Calgary, Alberta.

Style and Performance

Michael’s focus goes beyond developing technically better goaltenders — the PRO Goaltending system is designed to create better athletes. PRO Goaltending develops its clients knowing that today’s goalies need to be physically and mentally skilled for the increasing demands and rapid changes at the highest levels of hockey.

PRO Goaltending has taken basic, fundamental principles of goaltending and created a more dynamic and systematic style of goaltending. This style is not only suited for the way hockey is played today, but it is also designed to give the players the athletic and mental edge over the competition to be the best.

Adapted from the modern butterfly style of goaltending, PRO Goaltending’s system emphasizes more structured crease movements, developing greater focus on following the puck and controlling rebounds. By using this technique, goaltenders are taught to be more patient and aware of their positioning for secondary movements in the net.

From the beginning, the game of hockey has gone through numerous changes. From changes to rules, to the size of nets, to equipment, and even to the size and speed of players, hockey today is arguably the best it has been in recent memory. It is for this reason that now, more than ever, the most demanding position has become the most important position on the ice — that is the position of the goaltender.

It is with this determination Michael works with his players to make them stand out above the rest and be successful both on and off the ice.

Eli Rassi

Eli is currently the goaltending coach and consultant for the Ottawa Junior “A” Senators in the Central Canada Hockey League. With a wealth of coaching experience both in Ottawa and Toronto, where he served as a goaltending coach and consultant for the past eight years, Eli brings passion and energy to each and every training session. Through work and volunteer experience, he has been afforded the opportunity to work with several professional, collegiate and Major Junior goaltenders.

Eli holds a combined honours degree in mass communications and Canadian studies from Carleton University and a post-graduate certificate in public relations from the Humber Institute of Advanced Learning in Toronto.

He currently works and resides in Ottawa.