It's been a long summer for Vancouver Canucks fans and we're one step closer to the action as training camp gets underway in Penticton.

PENTICTON, B.C. - Rick Tocchet has already warned his Vancouver Canucks players — the looming NHL season won't be easy.

The long wait is almost over for the legion of fans in Penticton and across the Okanagan who cheer for the Vancouver Canucks.For the first time in 14 years, the Canucks are holding their National Hockey League training camp in Penticton.Camp opens today at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton and runs daily until Sunday.The Canucks roster features superstars like Quinn Hughes, winner of the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenceman last season, J.T. Miller, considered one of the best two-way players in the game, Swedish superstar Elias Pettersson and American sniper Brock Boeser, who had an outstanding season last year scoring 40 goals for the first time in his career.The Canucks enjoyed their best season in a decade in 2023-24 finishing first in the Pacific Division. They defeated the Nashville Predators in a tough opening-round playoff series, before pushing the Stanley Cup finalist Edmonton Oilers to seven games in a series they led 3-2.READ MORE: Vancouver Canucks star goalie Thatcher Demko working…

PENTICTON, B.C. - Thatcher Demko and his medical team have spent the last few months scouring the globe, trying to find other hockey players who've dealt with the same muscle injury the Vancouver Canucks goalie is currently working through.