Training & Development
Edge Sports Management realizes that roster spots on teams at all levels have become very competitive.
We do everything that we can to help our players in their efforts to be successful on the ice. We connect our players with the best:
- Strength and conditioning trainers
- Skating instructors
- Goalie coaches
- Nutritionists
- Video shift-by-shift breakdown/analysis
- Sports psychologists
- Medical doctors
…and any other professionals that can help our players maximize their potential.
Strength & Conditioning Coaches
Ben Prentiss
Ben Prentiss has been working with professional hockey players for over 20 years. Ben has earned a Level V certification with world renowned strength coach Charles Poliquin. Ben is one of very few trainers worldwide with this credential.
Ben is the founder is globally recognized Prentiss Hockey Performance. He has trained players from all 31 NHL teams, including numerous Stanley Cup winners, Major Award winners, All Stars, and Olympians. Ben also spent 3 seasons as the Director of Hockey Performance for Boston University, and has been the Strength and Conditioning Consultant for the New York Rangers since 2017.
Tony Greco
Tony is Canada’s leading fitness specialist and trainer of elite hockey players. Tony won the IAKSA World Kick Boxing Championship title in 1995. He is a top graduate of the Sports Performance Institute, whose certification exceeded the guidelines established by the National Fitness Advisory Council in personal training, strength training, and aerobics instruction.
Tony is frequently sought out by some of the biggest names in the NHL. He continues to go above and beyond with every aspect of his fitness training system, and Edge Sports Management’s clients reap the benefits of his world class programs.
Andrew Bazos, MD – Medical Consultant for Edge Sports Management
Dr. Andrew Bazos earned a degree with honors in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University and graduated from Yale University School of Medicine. Following a general surgery internship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, Dr. Bazos completed his residency training at Columbia-Presbyterian’s New York Orthopedic Hospital. Since that time, he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy at NYU-Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City in 1993.
Dr. Bazos is board-certified by The American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. He is practicing with SEP Orthopedics and since 1993 serves as an Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in the Sports Medicine Department at NYU-Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City, where he maintains operating privileges and keeps office hours.
We sit down with our players and their families to create and schedule the optimal summer of training for each individual. We have a network of instructors in both the United States and Canada that we utilize to help the player achieve his goals in preparation for the next playing season.
In the summer, Edge Sports Management runs a training and development camp to help our players prepare for the upcoming season. The camp includes elite level on and off ice instruction. We also bring in expert speakers such as NHL General Managers, scouts, player development coaches, nutritionists, accountants, and other professionals to help the players in topics pertinent to professional athletes.
Below are some pictures and videos from our camps:
