The Westlake Staff
The Westlake Hockey Development on-ice staff is made up of players from across numerous elite leagues.
Participants will benefit from our staff's firsthand experience of playing at the highest levels of the game,
whether this concern skill development, stategy, training or mental preparation. Alternately, if you're
interested in the off-ice aspects of WHD, jump to our professional staff page to
learn more the pros we recruit in other fields.
Lucas Madill, Head Instructor
Lucas Madill’s life has revolved around the sport of hockey since he has been old enough to skate. As a part of the Lac St. Louis Ouest Tigres organization for many years he collected numerous minor hockey tournament championships and a Bantam AA provincial title. He then played a year for the Midget AAA Lac St. Louis Lions before receiving a scholarship to play Division one prep school hockey with his twin brother Mike at The Millbrook School in New York. In two years at Millbrook Lucas shared co-captainship and two team co-MVP awards with his brother while leading his team in scoring in both campaigns. He received league MVP honors with 63 points in 30 games his second year, and was voted to the All League and All Star teams.
After a successful stint at prep school, Lucas headed off to play junior hockey in Ontario. He ended his junior career as assistant captain of the Brockville Braves, where he posted 24 goals and 36 assists for 60 points in 50 games. Lucas then played four years with the historic Redmen of McGill University. In his rookie season he was voted as the teams most improved player after scoring 6 goals and 6 assists in 24 games and making a transition back to defense for a portion of the season. In his third year he helped lead the team as an assistant captain to the National championships, where he scored two goals in McGill's first ever National Championship game to carry them into the semi-finals. Lucas ended his career at McGill as an assistant captain for a second season and is now completing a Masters of science in Sport Psychology at the University of New Bruinswisk. He is aslo playing hockey at UNB for the Varsity Reds, trying to help the currenlty #1 ranked V-reds in their effort to reclaim last years Canadian University National Championship.
Lucas has been instructing hockey to children at various hockey schools since he was 14 years old. As an assistant head instructor at NTR's Excellent-Ice Kirkland over the past 9 summers Lucas has developed a combination of experience, enthusiasm and joy of helping others in developing their skills for the game he loves.
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Michael Madill, Head Instructor
Mike first started skating on his backyard rink at the age of two with his twin brother, Luke. Throughout his hockey career, Mike has played at the highest levels in Atom, Pee-Wee, Bantam, and has continued that trend with the Midget AAA Lac St. Louis Lions. The following year, with education in mind, he decided to overlook Quebec Major Junior teams and attend Millbrook Prep School, in Millbrook, New York. There, Mike, along with his brother, was voted team co-MVP each year and earned invitations to the Prep-school All-Star game and All-Scholastics Hockey Night in Boston their senior season. At Millbrook Prep, Mike totaled 70 points in two years.
Mike always had aspirations of playing at the Division I level in the United States. To reach that goal, he decided to move to Ontario and play for the Nepean Raiders junior team. Mike totaled 50 points in 55 games; scoring 15 times, while adding 35 assists. He played in the CJHL All-Star game and was selected as a CJHL first-team All Star in 2001-2002. After an exceptional season with the Nepean Raiders, Mike received a hockey scholarship to St. Lawrence University where he excelled every year. His third and fourth season there, Mike received the ‘Pete McGeuogh Award’ for the teams most outstanding defenseman. His senior year Mike was also co-winner of the ‘Brian P. Doyle Memorial Award’, which is given to the player who demonstrates character, athletic ability and leadership. Mike was also named the teams co-MVP. With a strong season as a member of the St. Lawrence Hockey Team, Mike earned league honours as well. He was named the ECAC’s Outstanding Defensive Defenseman and was a First Team All Star.
Following St. Lawrence, Mike signed an NHL contract with the Minnesota Wild. He spent most of his first professional season in the ECHL, with the Texas Wildcatters, where Mike finished near the top of the league in defensemen scoring, with 43 points and represented his team and the American Conference in the ECHL All Star Game. He finished the regular season with the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League. Since being invited to the Calgary Flames 2007 camp, Mike played the first few games with their American League affiliate, the Quad City Flames before being returned to the Las Vegas Wranglers of ECHL. However, expect to see lots of Mike in Quad City this season.
Mike has worked in hockey schools for the past nine years. His experience and enthusiasm are reasons why he has been chosen as a member of Westlake Hockey Development Inc.
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Michael Zbriger, Head Instructor
Through his youth Michael always played at the highest level. He was always a go-to in the scoring department. Year in and year out Michael would be among the league leaders in points. His career path led him to a prestigious prep school in the USA, Governor's Academy in Byfield, MA. His ability to produce continued in the USPHL by leading the league in scoring his senior year. He graduated in 2001 as a first team All New-England selection, an All-league selection (ISL) and Team MVP. His success in prep school brought him to St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY), and his ultimate dream of playing Division I NCAA hockey. He majored in Economics and in 2006 received a Masters degree in Education.
Michael played his first year of pro hockey in the United Hockey League, mainly in Illinois for the Bloomington Prairie Thunder. He was the leading scorer for his team and received All-Rookie Honors across the league by finishing first among all rookies with 29 goals, and third overall with 57 points. Michael is currently pursuing his career overseas in Germany for the Weiden Blue Devils.
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Dustin Traylen, Goaltending Instructor
Goaltending has been part of Dustin Traylen’s life since he started playing hockey at the age of five. Dustin played his minor hockey for the Lac St. Louis region where he was always amongst the league leaders. His competitive career took off when he was given the opportunity to play for the Lac St. Louis Lions, under head coach Kevin Figsby. He used his experience with Lions to jump-start his successful junior career.
Dustin played in all three eastern Canadian Junior ‘A’ leagues, but found his niche with the Nepean Raiders of the Central Junior Hockey League at the age of 19. It was in Nepean where Dustin blossomed. In his first year, he earned second team CJHL all-star honors and the coveted three stars cup for the Raiders. In his second year, Dustin enjoyed a career year in juniors. He took home most valuable player honors at the CJHL all-star game with a 19 save performance in the first period. He then went on to win first team CJHL honors along with Goaltender of the Year and he finished the campaign with the second best save percentage in Canadian Junior ‘A’ hockey with a remarkable .925 save percentage.
It was during this banner year that Dustin committed to Clarkson University a Division I program in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. In his first season in 2002-2003, he captured the prestigious Clarkson Hockey rookie of the year award. In his sophomore season, Dustin set the school record for regular season save percentage at .923. It was in his sophomore year that he backboned the Golden Knights through a stunning playoff run, a run that ended in the ECAC finals against a talent laden Harvard Crimson squad.
After three seasons at Clarkson, Dustin turned pro. He is currently in his third year of professional hockey having spent time in four professional leagues (Providence Bruins - AHL, Trenton Titans - ECHL, Port Huron Flags -UHL, Laredo Bucks - CHL). Recent accolades include winning most valuable player with the Port Huron Flags in 2006-2007. Already this season, he has been named CHL Goaltender of the Month for October 2007, enjoying a successful start to the season with the Laredo Bucks of the Central Hockey League.
Dustin has been a goaltending instructor for ten years. In addition to WHD, he is the head instructor for the Textbook Goaltending Schools in both Montreal and New Jersey. Dustin's coaching resume also includes coaching at various hockey schools in and around the Montreal area. This list includes John Elkins Goaltending school, Amey Doyle's Goaltending, Hockey Tec Boisbriand with renowned goaltending coach and hockey author, Alex Theriault.
Known as a people person, Dustin looks forward to helping WHD goaltenders reach their full potential through hard work and dedication to detail.
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