NHL Shooting Coach Tim Turk was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario. Tim found his start in hockey by playing shinny on the Mississauga streets with his friends almost every day. Although Tim had a relatively late start in organized hockey at the age 12, but his interest and passion continued from there.

During his first hockey season, Tim played at the single A level. The very next year, he had risen to playing triple A. At the young age of 14, Tim accomplished a rare feat for minor hockey players: he was recruited by a Junior B team a few years ahead of the usual age. That was the moment that Tim realized he was meant to do something more in the sport of hockey.

While Tim was attending high school, he worked as a shooter for a goalie school in his spare time. After watching Tim display shooting talent, the owner of the goalie school suggested that Tim teach his shooting technique to other hockey players. At the time, there were very few shooting schools, so Tim wrote off the idea and continued as a shooter for the time being, while keeping the idea to branch out and teach his own, in the back of his mind.

At the age of 20, Tim got his first hockey coaching experience when he helped lead a peewee A team with a friend. For Tim, the experience was a breath of fresh air, because he revealed a hidden talent for teaching. After a few more years of successful coaching, Tim decided to take the idea of teaching shooting on his own and run with it.

Tim quickly gained notoriety as an expert shooting coach and, in 1999, found an opportunity to work with his first NHL-level team, the Buffalo Sabres. Since then, Tim has continued to teach shooting and scoring to other NHL teams such as the Montreal Canadiens, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Carolina Hurricanes, and the Arizona Coyotes.

With the acclamation of having worked as an NHL shooting and scoring coach, Tim has since taught shooting all over the world, including China, Malaysia, Russia, Switzerland, and many other distant countries. Tim also offers an affiliation program for hockey schools and instructors who would like to offer the Tim Turk Hockey Program. Tim currently has affiliates located in Chicago, Ottawa East and West, Switzerland, Oakville, and Pennsylvania.

Today, Tim continues to run local, national, and international training sessions and hockey camps to teach the art of shooting. He works with players and teams of all levels; from minor hockey to NHL. Tim also founded www.HockeySkillsTraining.com where he offers online hockey shooting video training for players everywhere.