It’s no secret that head coach Travis Green uses the tough love approach when dealing with his younger players. Whether you like it or not, this is something Vancouver Canucks fans will need to get used to. Looking at individual cases, his methods seem to be working for Jake Virtanen, a player that looks astronomically different from the young man who struggled in Utica last year.
For Brock Boeser, it is still too early to tell if waiting for the third game of the season to deploy him was the correct move.