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Canucks: Should management sign or trade Jake Virtanen?

Like many successful NHL power forwards before him, Jake Virtanen has been something of a long term project for the Vancouver Canucks organization. Finally now at the age of 23, the player known in Van-City as “Shotgun Jake” looks to be smoothly turning the corner and becoming the very valuable power forward he was once envisioned to be. Jim Benning’s first selection as the big boss in Vancouver and he selects the local kid at number six overall. Fast forward six seasons, now it’s time for Benning to get full value out of his very first selection, one way or another.