Joey, Jory & Rory’s Excellent Adventure

What do you do all summer?

That’s the question I’ve been asked quite a bit over the past few months. My answer: what the Vancouver Canucks do. Get away from hockey, travel, relax, refocus and recharge.

But is that actually what the players do in the off-season?

We’re all about to find out.

What is being called Joey, Jory & Rory’s Excellent Adventure begins today as CanucksTV’s Joey Kenward, Canucks cameraman Rory McGarry and myself, Canucks.com’s Derek Jory, hit the road for four hometown player visits, beginning Sunday in Montreal with Maxim Lapierre.

What you can expect from our week on the road is access to the Canucks like never before – and I’m not just saying that because it sounds good. We’ll be in their homes, meeting their family and friends and touring the hometown areas that made them who they are today. Everything will be turned around for your viewing and reading pleasure on Canucks.com, CanucksTV, Fort Nucks, @VanCanucks on Twitter and on the Vancouver Canucks Facebook page.

And you thought we were in the middle of the dog days of summer. Think again.

Have a question, comment, concern or restaurant recommendation for Joey, Jory and Rory? Have your say here.

Canucks Prospect Camp Photo du Jour - Day 6

Cain Franson, Kenton Miller, Stefano Momesso and Dalton Sward, the first four Canucks prospects up the Grouse Grind, celebrate in the rain.

Click here for the full report on the Canucks versus the Grouse Grind

Canucks Prospect Camp Photo du Jour - Day 5

The prospects were expecting to attend a Vancouver Canadians baseball game today, as you can tell from their hats. Instead, it rained. A tour of the HMCS Vancouver was the backup plan. It was wicked.

Canucks Prospect Camp Photo du Jour - Day 4

Hockey in the summer = awesomeness

July wallpaper

Nothing says Happy Canada Day like a Pavel Bure wallpaper! Download it, admire it, love it. Happy July!

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Canucks Prospect Camp Photo du Jour - Day 3

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape”

Canucks Prospect Camp Photo du Jour - Day 2

Brendan Gaunce, already feeling blue under the media spotlight.

Canucks Prospect Camp Photo du Jour - Day 1

On the left, a prospect begins an excruciating test. On the right, a group of prospects chill after finishing the test.

CONGRATS PAVEL!

Racin’ Raymond

I ran a Nike 10K once in Toronto and as soon as I crossed the finish line, I vowed to never run like that again, unless an insane clown or rabid bear were chasing me. Although I felt a swell of pride in what I had accomplished, it was overshadowed by pain everywhere - I think I was even hallucinating a bit.

If running is your thing and you participated in the Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon & 5K this past weekend, well done! If you felt the pain I mentioned and were maybe even hallucinating to the point you thought you saw Canucks forward Mason Raymond, rest assured he was actually there.

Raymond was an honourary Scotiabank charity challenge chair; he posed for photos, signed autographs and was his general happy self.

Here are two photos Canucks photographer Jeff Vinnick snapped of him. I have no idea what is going on in the picture below.