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Has Zack MacEwen replaced Jake Virtanen on the Canucks’ right wing depth chart ahead of the play-ins?

The Vancouver Canucks appear to have a real battle underway at their pre play-ins Training Camp for the right wing spot next to Adam Gaudette on their third line. Today, head coach Travis Green demoted Jake Virtanen to an extra forward slot after a poor showing at the Canucks’ scrimmage on Thursday.

Unfortunately for the shotgun movement, this wasn’t Jake Virtanen’s worst defensive sequence of the first 25 minutes... https://t.co/99roIE9fGr

— Thomas Drance (@ThomasDrance) July 17, 2020

Saturday lines at #Canucks Camp:

Pearson-Horvat-Boeser
Roussel-Gaudette-MacEwen
Miller-Pettersson-Toffoli
Motte-Beagle-Eriksson

Hughes-Tanev
Edler-Stecher
Fantenberg-Myers
Juolevi-Chatfield

Extras: Virtanen, Sutter— Brendan Batchelor (@BatchHockey) July 18, 2020

Virtanen is no stranger to Training Camp controversy.