Future arrives for B’s at camp

During the past decade of Bruins development camps, the team’s staff, media and fans have had the chance to form early impressions of many young players who would go on to play prominent roles in Boston or elsewhere in the NHL.

Players like Blake Wheeler, Milan Lucic and Brad Marchand all took significant steps toward NHL employment during the sessions, all held at Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington. When Tyler Seguin made his first appearances in a B’s jersey, a couple of weeks after being selected No. 2 overall in the 2010 draft, there were crammed, standing-room-only crowds at the small practice rink.

The venue switches this year to Warrior Ice Arena in Brighton, the B’s new practice facility, starting this morning and running for four days. The first on-ice session is at 11 a.m.; the next three days, the skates will start at 10:30.

No individual will take the ice accompanied by the sort of hype that surrounded Seguin, but there certainly is no shortage of compelling stories for Bruins fans.

Here are a few storylines that folks no doubt will be thinking about:

• Does 2014 fifth-round pick Andres Bjork look like a kid who can make the big step from NCAA play to NHL, and maybe even be able to slot in as the second-line left winger?

The 20-year-old speedy and skilled Bjork turned pro in late May after a fine junior season at Notre Dame.

“I’ve got a lot of work to do this summer,” Bjork said shortly after he signed with the B’s. “I know that. Obviously, there’s a ton of good prospects and young players in the organization so it’s going to be tough to earn a spot on the Bruins, in Boston. I’m going to be training really hard. I plan to work a lot on my strength and stuff like that and just anything I can do to give myself a better shot at making the team. “It’s going to take a lot of effort. But it’s a great opportunity. I’m excited about that and that’s definitely going to drive me this summer.”

• The progress of Jakob Zboril and Zach Senyshyn.

Of the B’s three tightly bunched first-round draft choices in the 2015 draft — Nos. 13-15 — left winger Jake DeBrusk played quite well this past season at AHL Providence. He, too, will be in the running for that vacant second-line spot.

Zboril, a defenseman, and Senyshyn, a right winger, played another year of junior hockey. It’s a lock that both will play in the NHL. The questions are when and for whom? And, of course, how well?

• How about 2016 late first-rounder Trent Frederic?

The 6-foot-2, 203-pound center (29th overall) delivered a solid freshman campaign at the University of Wisconsin and will be back in Madison this season. • Ryan Donato keeps improving. The B’s second-round pick (56th overall) in 2014 had an excellent sophomore season at Harvard and the winger looks like a legitimate NHL-bound talent, though maybe after two more years in Cambridge to earn his degree.

• Just what is Urho Vaakanainen all about?

The first-round pick in this year’s draft will skate for the first time in North America. Fans should expect to see a good-sized Finnish kid who’s a smooth, graceful, fast-skating defenseman.

There will be other interesting players among the campers. Maybe even a dark horse who can impress the staff and take the first steps toward making the team.

One player who made the team last year, winger Tim Schaller, was re-signed yesterday by the Bruins for one year at $775,000. Schaller had seven goals and seven assists in 59 games in 2016-17.