Sportsnet 650: Elliotte Friedman on the Vancouver Canucks and Jake Virtanen: “Are the Canucks going to use a buyout? I think they know where Virtanen is going to be. It’s not going to arbitration, both sides know what the deal is going to be. A second buyout window opens when that deal is done.
Sportsnet 650: Friedman continued: “Canucks will do things if they make sense. The Schmidt deal made a lot of sense. They took on money there…. If they were unwilling to do bigger things, Nate Schmidt would not be a Vancouver canucks.