It may be late July, but the Canucks’ playoff clock is ticking. And with the club's first test nearly here, Vancouver's greatest potential game changer — its power play — continues to show promise. (via imacSportsnet)
’ playoff clock is ticking. On Friday, they ended their final evening scrimmage of training camp with a full period of power-play work.
“I can feel it brewing naturally with our team right now that they’re ready to get to Edmonton and they understand that it’s getting serious. We’ve tried to let them have fun here the last couple of weeks, but yet still work hard and get their bodies going. I can feel our team is dialling in a little bit more as we get going here.”
The Canucks’ top unit, which features forwards Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller, Bo Horvat and Tyler Toffoli with blue-line quarterback Quinn Hughes, hasn’t changed since the league shut down in March. But on Friday, Green also rolled out an alternative unit with Brock Boeser on his off-wing instead of Miller, and Antoine Roussel in the bumper spot in place of Horvat.
But nobody has been better at camp than Hughes, the rookie-of-the-year finalist who spent the four-month shutdown training and getting stronger and looks this summer like he’s ready for his sophomore season.
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