COACH COLTEN HAYES

Hayes is a former professional hockey player with an accumulated 235 professional career games with the Missouri Mavericks, Stockton Thunder, Fort Wayne Komets, Reading Royals and Alaska Aces. During that span Colten produced 87 points and collected 452 penalty minutes with a plus 43 as a defenseman. Before turning pro Colten played in both the BCHL and AJHL (Langley Chiefs/Drumheller Dragons/ and Okotoks Oilers) where he put up a 104 points and 538 penalty minutes in a 3 year span. He was known as a point producing defenseman that played tough with an unparalleled hockey IQ. In the 2010/2011 season while playing with the Okotoks Oilers Colten Hayes was named AJHL Defenseman of the year – the first time in Okotoks Oilers franchise history. Hayes is still currently playing for the Innisfail Eagles in the Chinook Hockey League.

Colten has been instructing and coaching for the past 17 years and is now the owner/operator of Coast2Coast Hockey Development (est. 2015). After he finished pro he switched his role of player to coach. Colten Hayes is back for his second stint as the Head Coach/GM of the High River Flyer for the 2023-2024 hockey season. Most recently he was the Head Coach of the U18AA Foothills Bisons in the SCAHL where his team captured its first winning season in 10 years. Prior to that he was the GM/ Head Coach for the High River Flyers in the HJHL, Assistant Coach for the Okotoks Bisons in the HJHL, Colten also spent two years as the Head coach of the Foothills Bisons U13 AA program.

Hayes prides himself by leading by example, and be on the front lines with his players. Colten wants his players to know that he wouldn’t ask them to do anything he wouldn't be willing to do, or hasn’t done himself. Hayes see himself as a players coach. Relatable, and strives to get the most out of his players both on and off ice the ice, and develop relationships with them, where in turn they want to give the best they have to offer both on and off the ice because Hayes and his players have that mutual respect for one another.