No one could quite figure out what the Vancouver Canucks were planning to do with Jake Virtanen.
He made the Canucks out of training camp despite injuring his shoulder in the preseason.
Yet head coach Willie Desjardins did not appear to trust Virtanen to play. He kept the 20-year-old on the third, and sometimes the fourth, line. Willie also often benched him in third periods.
The situation has grown worse on the team’s six game road trip. In the first game against the Montreal Canadiens he played only 7:13. Against the Ottawa Senators, he played 8:33.