messier's_elbow Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 This guy is a physical specimen hopefully it translates into some 30+ goal seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel_Burrows Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Excited to see him and play. Finally we draft Canadian boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Terrible.... Absolutely junk. Buyout booth then draft his clone. Not a good start for Benning. What a waste of the highest pick since the Sedins What's the exact opposite of genius? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 where is absent canuck i wanna hear his opinion I wanna hear it in 5 years when Ehlers has yet to play a full season in the nhl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erkayloomeh Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Not surprised by the pick. JV is the type of player JB wants. Canucks in a couple years will be a very hard team to play against. Welcome Jake. Imagine his parents right now. Being from Abbotsford and having your son picked 6th overall by Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 So happy we got Virtanen tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amish Rake Fighter Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Ever wondered that maybe I spelt it that way on purpose? ^^ this idiot needs the ban hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_The_Schneid! Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 There was a good article I read awhile ago about virtanen can't find it anymore. Went on about how physically gifted he was didn't start playing hockey until later. If someone could post it id appreciate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHatnDart Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Lolllll I can't believe these supposed fans and trolls that are on this forum. Benning has been on the job less than 2 months, and has already cleared out a locker room cancer, with one team to deal with and managed to get a pretty darn good return. Also cleared up a tonne of cap space with the the Booth dump and the Garrison trade. Plus we haven't even made it to the free agency deadline. Not only that, he made the best offer to Florida for that number 1 that he was willing to give. Who knows what Florida wanted as far as players go..had it been a good prospect like Horvat or say Tanev, CDC would be in an uproar. You can't please everybody all the time. I for one am jacked on Virtanen. Someone mentioned he posted the best overall skills in evaluation. He also is a local kid who will give this team everything he has. Sounds like a pretty darn good pickup to me. Also saw someone posting about his lack of vision due to his number of assists. Which to me says he's a pure goal scorer...do we have any of those in this team? There isn't a lot of players that can do it all, consistently. If he does turn out to be that type of player, so what. Centre him with the playmaking type. God knows we have a lot of guys that can pass but not finish. Looked up Mike Bossy's career stats, and he always scored more goals then assists. Not comparing the two, but pure goal scorers are sure fun to watch. All in all, I feel like it was a pretty darn exciting day yesterday. Good job TL & JB. Land us a nice fish in free agency and I would say this summer has been a successful one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheXFactor Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 As long as we didn't pick Ritchie I'm fine with either Virtanen, Nylander, or Ehlers. At this point in time you can't really go wrong with any of the 3. Virtanen having a shoulder injury does NOT make him injury prone, nor does anyone know for certain he's a bust. We need more players with a shoot first mentality because, clearly, our 1st line is sorely lacking in shooters. Sedin-Sedin-Burrows = playmaker-playmaker-grinder? We don't need that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgerKing Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 He played with the injury for around half the season, you would think his numbers would be even better had he been healthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeddingCrashers Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Everybody.builds their own personal favorites but professional scouts had Virtanen ranked 7th we took him 6th! I'm happy with the pick! Ritchies conditioning scared me. We got a hometown kid who wants to be here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Jensen is a pure scorer yes. Shinkaruk can do both. Virtanen has size and a mean streak neither of those two have, Jensen has size doesn't really utilize it. We need more people willing to chuck bodies. Sick of being pushed around by other teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedish elite3 Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Loving this kid more and more, going to be an NHL stud and as for all your haters, what do you really a know about scouting? Just your personal opinion? Let the people who get paid make these calls I for one am glad we stayed far away from Ritchie kid is going to be the next big bust in the NHL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbyte Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Didn't Benning say that Nylander and Ehlers didn't even make it into the conversation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asian player Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Didn't Benning say that Nylander and Ehlers didn't even make it into the conversation? I think that was something Botchford said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbyte Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I think that was something Botchford said I can never tell with his stupid articles. Jeepers he's an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I hope more and more people start to realize how good he's going to be. Looks like a scoring stud and is super excited to be here. Winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRAY Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Excited to see him and play. Finally we draft Canadian boys. Well, technically we have drafted plenty of Canadian boys before...Horvat...Shinkaruk...Gaunce... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlsson`s Flo Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I hope more and more people start to realize how good he's going to be. Looks like a scoring stud and is super excited to be here. Winning. Give it time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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