Jared and Jake sound like cowboy characters. The Vancouver Canucks staged a horse opera for them on Sunday.
Jared McCann could have cried out of sadness or happiness but narrowly avoided doing either during the performance at the University of B.C.
For the first practice since McCann scored his team-leading fifth goal in the Canucks’ 4-3 win against the Arizona Coyotes, coach Willie Desjardins prepped players by showing in the dressing room a series of video clips on McCann and fellow 19-year-old rookie Jake Virtanen.
Desjardins was a little, uh, blunt. It was not a feel-good movie.