Also in that time, the Vancouver Canucks coaching staff has been criticized variously for its inability to properly develop young prospects.
This writer is here to challenge the endless diatribe that is forever cutting down Jake Virtanen for his supposedly insufferable inconsistency, and to say bollocks. Jake “can’t get no respect, no respect at all.”
If a team wants to develop a premier power forward then it needs to support him with meaningful opportunities and encouragement. You can’t expect a kid to play confidently and to reach his full potential when his coach is bent on holding him back.