Conor Garland, Filip Chytil and Teddy Blueger have now joined the teammates who were already skating at UBC last week.

Forwards on the ice today included: Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser, Jake DeBrusk, Conor Garland, Filip Chytil, Evander Kane, Nils Höglander, Kiefer Sherwood, Teddy Blueger and Drew O’Connor.

The defence corps was comprised of Filip Hronek, Tyler Myers, Marcus Pettersson, Derek Forbort and Pierre-Olivier Joseph.

Thatcher Demko, Kevin Lankinen and Nikita Tolopilo were the three goalies present for the session.

While it’s difficult to draw many conclusions from a September scrimmage, it was interesting to note that both teams started the 4-on-4 game with three forwards and a defenceman. For those who like to read into summer skates, Elias Pettersson took the opening faceoff for Team White on a line with Evander Kane on left wing and Conor Garland on his right, while Filip Chytil centred the Blue Team’s first shift between Jake DeBrusk and Brock Boeser. However, by the time the team went to 5-on-5, any sense of line combinations had been put into a blender.

The workout finished with Garland, Boeser and Höglander at one end practicing taking pucks off the end boards while Chytil and O’Connor worked on different down low drills at the other end of the ice. Derek Forbort worked on mobility drills on his own in the neutral zone.

Captain Quinn Hughes, who was in town for the team golf tournament yesterday at Northview, is now in Las Vegas for the NHL’s North American media tour. He is expected to join his teammates on the ice later this week.

After a flood of the ice, a second group of Canucks skated on Tuesday. That session included a who’s who of team prospects and hopefuls, including Aatu Räty, Nils Aman, Arshdeep Bains and Max Sasson, along with defencemen Elias Pettersson, Tom Wilander and Victor Mancini. The Canucks will be sending a team of prospects to Seattle for weekend games against the Kraken.

Main training camp opens a week from Thursday in Penticton.