What started out as minor offseason talk has turned into a great debate: what should the Vancouver Canucks do with Jake Virtanen?
The 20-year-old forward is in his second NHL season but is still struggling to make a name for himself. Head coach Willie Desjardins keeps playing him on the fourth line — or not at all — and fans keep saying he shouldn’t be in the NHL.
Today, The Canuck Way’s Ben Dooley argued it was time for the Canucks to reassign Virtanen to the AHL Utica Comets. After reading through Twitter today, it seemed like most of Canucks Nation agrees.