VANCOUVER — At the end of one drill on Tuesday, new Vancouver Canucks winger Evander Kane finished a check on Filip Hronek after the defenceman helped clear the puck from his zone.

Kane appeared to get as much glass as he did Hronek and, by hockey standards, the hit was nothing.

Perpetually intense and always with his game face, Hronek has, on occasion, snapped like dried spaghetti at practice. But this time, he simply skated across the ice to await his next rep. Kane was waiting for him at the boards with a smile and stick tap.

The collision of two key veterans was indicative of a lively, hour-long practice that was executed with urgency.

“Yeah, we were very, very happy with practice today,” Canucks assistant coach Brett McLean later told reporters. “I think it was about halfway throu

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