One of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's top coaches is scheduled to travel north this July for an annual Whitehorse hockey clinic.

Danny Flynn, coach for the Moncton Wildcats and the team's head of hockey operations, will be passing along his expertise at the 2009 Northwestel Summit Hockey Schools.

Flynn, who was named best QMJHL coach for the 2008-09 season, will be joined by Joe Martin, the head coach/GM of the Creston Valley Thunder Cats and former Mustangs coach.

Also helping for the hockey school, scheduled to run July 21 to 24, are assistant instructors and local hockey stars Ted Stephens and Jared Tuton.

Stephens is one of the poster boys for the Northwestel Summit Hockey School and is now playing for the Wildcats thanks to being discovered by Flynn a few years ago. Tuton, meanwhile, is the captain of the University of Alaska Anchorage hockey team.

Under Flynn's guidance, the Wildcats finished on top in the Atlantic Division title, enjoying a 45 point improvement from the previous season. The 2008-2009 team achieved a total of 16 new club records.

Flynn has been coming up to Whitehorse ever since the Summit Schools began more than five years ago.

"He really knows how to develop players and it really shows," said Martin about Flynn. "Danny has been coming up here ever since this hockey school started and you can see an increase in our junior hockey players ever since."

Some of the hockey school's alumni include Adam Henderson, Michigan University; Alex McDougall, Powell River Kings; Kane Dawe, Creston Thunder Cats; Joe Densmore, Creston Thunder Cats and Andrew Pettitt, Powell River Kings.

Registration begins today at Sport Yukon and is open to hockey players aged seven to 13 years old.

Martin said the focus for this group is providing proper foundations to help with overall skill development, which includes skating, passing and shooting.

"It's objective is to help the young ones just improve over the summer, give them a few things to work on in the winter with their club teams and then come back next year," he said. "The plan is they eventually go into the older camp, which runs from (July) 23 to 26. That's open for players that are 14 and up."

The youth session has room for 90 players, which will be divided up in groups of 30 for a specific age category (novice, atom and peewee).

The cost is $250, plus GST, and in addition to the ice time, there will also be classroom sessions on nutrition and leadership sessions.

Martin said he hopes to have between 70 and 90 kids sign up for the younger Northwestel Summit Hockey School.

"We want the amount of kids kind of low, so that the players out there get a lot from the coaches," he said. "So about 70 to 90 is a good number, anything after that we would have to be looking at acquiring more ice time and we would rather just keep it like this."

Registration is also open for the second annual Whitehorse Summer Hockey League.

Interested players can sign up at Sport Yukon at a cost of $70. The league runs for the month of July, starting on July 6.

Final registration will be on July 5 at the Canada Games Centre from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.