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New Flyers coach gives back to community at youth hockey clinic

DAVE HAKSTOL still remembers going to hockey camp growing up. A small-town kid from western Canada, he was allowed by his parents to pick one camp to go to each summer.

Year after year, Hakstol attended the Clare Drake Hockey School at the University of Alberta.

Yesterday morning, many years later, school was back in session. And the teacher walked into Scanlon Ice Rink at the Scanlon Recreation Center in Kensington, ready to work with a group of local kids.

It wasn't quite "Dave Hakstol Hockey School," but the new Flyers head coach was the obvious attraction for the eighth- and ninth-graders of the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation.