Instructors / Staff

In 1993 Ron started coaching hockey in the Capital Region NY. He has spent the last 26 years coaching, instructing and developing players at every age level from youth to pro.

From 1995-97 Ron worked to create the foundation of his player development and skills programs. In 1997 Ron founded Excel Hockey Inc. and became an owner of the Hockey Hut Training Center. This allowed him to train players throughout the entire year. Also in 1997, hired by current Boston University Athletic Director Andrew Marrochello, he took the Hudson Valley CC Hockey Program from a two-win season and in four short seasons delivered the 2001 NJCAA National Championship to HVCC and the Collar City.

Over the next 20 years, Ron coached hundreds of hockey games at all levels in all seasons and built a world-class facility.  The Hockey Hut Training Center has become a respected and valued part of the New York, New England and Mid-Atlantic Hockey landscape.  Ron draws players to the “Hut” from all over the globe to train with him. He has built relationships with coaches and players throughout every Professional and Junior Hockey League in North America and has a working knowledge of the NCAA rules and regulations through those relationships.

His diverse corporate and coaching background has allowed him to become an expert in building businesses and hockey programs through a successful plan that relies on the ability to plan, train, coach and teach hockey skills for players and teams around the world.

He has created a teaching system that breaks down the individual skills for each player to improve on, but he also has the coaching knowledge and ability to create a team system and program culture to allow those individuals the creativity to thrive within a team. He currently coaches and trains players in the NHL, AHL, ECHL, NCAA Division I-III, and the top three Junior Leagues in North America.

Teagan Ketchum has been involved with the Hockey Hut from the very beginning. Teagan graduated from the very first ever Learn to Skate program run at the Hut. She went on to play hockey locally in the Ice Cats program and helped start the girl’s high school team at Albany Academy. From there she played Division l Hockey at Sacred Heart University. Throughout her college career, Teagan has run many programs in the off-season at the Hockey Hut including semi-private sessions and Hockey Camps! Teagan has been coaching at the Hut since 2018 and has brought great energy to everything that she has done! She has been proud to help push the growth of girls hockey in the capital region with one of the only all-girls camps in the area that she started in 2021, and is excited to be working with girls programs to run their team skills training! 

Teams Played – Adirondack Jr Wings (Youth), P.A.L Junior Islanders, NJ Junior Titans, SUNY Plattsburgh, Liberty University

Born and raised in Clifton Park NY 

Grew up around The Hockey Hut (Trained and Coached)

Cam is very excited to join the Hockey Hut team as an on-ice skills coach, and he is looking forward to sharing his professional knowledge in our semi-private sessions, our advanced classes, and our Defenseman-specific camps and programs!