(clock ticking)
- It's been a long time since we've been in a setting,
much like this,
having a training camp.
I think I speak for everyone when I say it's nice to be back
in this kind of atmosphere,
in this setting.
As far as camp goes.
It's an important time for every team,
but I think it's even more important for our team.
If you look around the room,
there's a lot of new faces.
We need to come together as a group
and really embrace the work ahead of us.
We know there's going to be some tough days.
There's going to be some teaching days and some days off.
But enjoy it,
and again embrace,
embrace the work that we have to do,
and let's be ready to go when we start.
- There you go, there you go.
Good job, good job.
- Make sure we get it to Hoggy here.
All right, let's go, let's go.
- [Green] There's a lot of things that we're focusing on.
We usually start the first part of practice with
five or six quick drills that are,
that get the heart rate going a little bit,
get their legs going.
And then we go into some structure stuff,
especially the second half of that practice.
We're working a lot of D-zone coverage
in certain parts of our game that we want to make sure
we're better at this year.
And there's a skating test at the end.
- That was tough.
I mean, it's just, you know, classic,
Travis Green Training Camp,
it's never going to be easy.
And I think it's great for us to know right off the bat
to get going right away and all the guys are great today.
- [Oliver Ekman-Larsson] It was a tough one,
but we knew that coming in.
Right?
And I mean,
I haven't been doing a lot of 40's on ice,
before this,
but it was a good practice.
I think it was a good, good pace.
And the guys were working really hard,
so that's that's all we were looking for.
So that was a good, good start.
- Are you good?
Do you want to do like half moon or anything or?
We'll get the pail here.
Podz.
Get that bucket. Yeah.
- I like the reverse psychology here.
Yep, yep.
It's offside by a mile.
We could slide. That'd be great.
- Atta way Hogs.
Good gaps Sauts
On ya, on ya
- [Jack Rathbone] It's good to kind of get back
into game reads.
I think that's,
you can practice it all you want and do two on two,
three on three, four on four.
But I think once you start to get back
into the flow of an actual game,
I think that's,
that's when you start to be able to kind of grow
and develop and actually work on some stuff.
So it was fun to get out there and guys were,
compete was high, so it was fun.
- [Tanner Pearson] It feels good to be back.
Obviously,
yesterday was a tough one
and that scrimmage today, felt pretty good.
It's good to kind of get back in the swing of things though,
too.
- Hoglander,
Good job.
Good job, boys.
Atta way, Dicky.
(motivating music)
- [Green] I thought the first period was good.
Slowed down a little bit in second period,
which probably to be expected,
but it's been a good,
good three days for our group.
- I think he could see it as kind of getting a little,
you know, a lot of checks out there,
and guys getting into it.
So it's good to see, you know,
we knew it was going to be competitive for a lot of guys,
and to see that out there and just in these scrimmages
is awesome,
and that should carry over to our preseason games.
You know, I think Hogs knows
what type of player he needs to be,
and he kind of knows our systems now.
So he's familiar and he's not messing up drills.
So that's pretty big for Hogs.
So you know (chuckles)
I guess that's probably the biggest difference is
he's not making us go again. (laughs)
- Tonight the Canucks ice a more experienced roster,
as they welcome the Flames to the Fraser Valley.
It's the Vancouver Canucks and the Calgary Flames.
NHL Preseason Hockey is on the air,
live from Abbotsford Centre in Abbotsford, BC.
(dramatic music)
(vocalizing)
(applause)
Ekman-Larson,
right side Conor Garland,
top of the circle delays with a toe drag and a wrist shot
blocked by Valimaki.
Then he shoots again and scores.
(goal horn)
The initial shot was blocked,
but Conor Garland follows up with the Canucks
to get a power play goal,
to take a 1-0 lead 2:38 into the first.
All right, off the top 2:38 into Conor Garland's first game.
He does exactly what we heard he does well.
- Ekman-Larsson across the Calgary li--
for Tanner Pearson shoots and scores.
(goal horn)
Tanner Pearson fires it in under the crossbar
from off the rush,
and the Canucks go ahead by two,
it's 4-2 with 6:29 left in the third.
- [Green] I thought it was a good hockey game
all the way around. Real strong first period.
I thought offensively, we got a little loose.
And when I say that,
I thought we defended well in the second,
but I thought we weren't as direct in the second period,
with some shots from the outside with no one at the net.
And I thought we got back to it in the third.