Dubbed the first of its kind in international ice hockey, the camp saw coaches and mentors from 18 countries participate in Spain.

The camp was organised by the IIHF Women’s Committee, who have previously organised high-performance camps since 2011, but opted to alter the format to focus on positions.

IIHF Council member Marta Zawadzka claimed improving the standard of goaltending could enable smaller nations to close the gap to the sport's top teams.

“For us the goalie position influences 80 per cent of the result," she said.

"If you have a stable and confident goalie, you are halfway through in the game.

“For goalies from smaller countries it’s important to improve and to show them how to improve to become a better goalie.

"On the Polish national team it’s definitely a very important position.

"We were stuck in Division II A and we found a new star in the net within the young goalies and got promoted last year.

"Having stability gives your team confidence and then it can move mountains.”

Lisa Haley was among the experts on hand to attempt to develop the young talent at the three day course.

Haley had been an assistant coach on Canada's women’s national team for several years, with Olympic gold in Sochi 2014 the highlight.

She has also been the head coach of the Under-18 team and looked to use her experience to organise the camp and provide useful coaching.

A total of 12 coaches were also present to learn from the experts, with the hope that they will be able to use the knowledge to develop players in their respective countries.

Zawadzka claimed developing coaches was vital in helping developing nations to compete effectively.

"In many countries we don’t have so many goalie coaches especially on the women’s side," she said.

"But I’m happy that so many coaches wanted to come here and work with the players and learn more to work with the goalies who are here from their country also during the season."