It’s been too long, Canucks fans. It’s not quite a full Scenes from Morning Skate or Scenes from Canucks practice — the series that gives you up-to-the-minute daily coverage of the Vancouver Canucks all season long here at CanucksArmy, but it is something!

Today, the Canucks were back out at UBC skating, with the players taking part in a scrimmage. Here’s what went down at today’s informal Canucks summer skate. Remember, folks, this is the warmup for the actual warmup, so try not to read into anything too much.

Yesterday, Arturs Silovs was on the ice, which was a great sign. He was out with Marko Torenius ahead of today’s session alongside Jiri Patera, Nikita Tolopilo, and Jonathan Lemieux. Tolopilo and Lemieux stayed out and served as the goaltenders for the scrimmage — Tolopilo for team blue and Lemieux for team white.

The final score of the scrimmage was 2-1 for Team Blue. Mark Friedman scored a goal and celebrated very loudly. There were a number of prospects on the ice, and as we stressed at the beginning of this article, this is the warmup for the actual season warmup, which isn’t for another two weeks. So, let’s try not to have any takeaways just yet.

That being said, in the player-led scrimmage (for which Jake DeBrusk and Elias Pettersson weren’t in attendance), Daniel Sprong played plenty with JT Miller and Brock Boeser. So do with that what you will.

Kiefer Sherwood spoke about the opportunity that lies ahead for him with the Canucks after signing in Vancouver this past offseason. Sherwood was a thorn in the Canucks’ side during the club’s round-one matchup against Sherwood’s Nashville Predators.

“When they came calling, you know, maybe it was a little bit of a surprise at first, just from being so ingrained to hating them, but when you look at it from afar and do your research, it’s like I said, there’s a lot of stuff that’s pointing in the right direction, and I’m just excited to be part of it and just put my head down and get to work.”

On his early impressions from the group:

“I look at the pace and competitiveness going in, and I think it’s a hungry group. That’s a good sign, especially with a little taste last year… you get a little taste of that and being so close, and then you see the other team [Edmonton] that went as far as they did. So obviously the team, there’s a lot of good to build on. And, like I said, just the eagerness to start camp and get going.

“I mean, there’s a lot of a lot of high-end guys here. The team can hurt you in a lot of different ways, and I think a lot of guys had really good years last year. You know, I looked at just different things. The group has a lot of difference makers, so I’ll just try to fit in and just be hard to play against. Whether that’s putting it in the net or wearing other guys down, I think there’s a lot of good stuff starting here.”