Happy and relieved that Virtanen is showing he's becoming a solid asset for the team, and he still has growth potential and a valuable and unique combination of speed, power, and he's showing work-ethic and maturity.
At this point using Wilson as a proxy for Virtanen is silly given that Virtanen so far isn't showing the same mean streak, it might not be his game in the end.
It strikes me as idiotic saying that even if Virtanen and Wilson are the same (and they're not) that somehow makes a Wilson-type player more valuable to winning than a high-end skill scoring player. You want both, but you need high level scoring more.
And it's beyond silly to argue that somehow Baertschi and Nylander/Ehlers are the same, let's honestly try going to any board and offering a 2nd for Nylander/Ehlers and see what happens. Like seriously. Baertschi was available for a 2nd because he's not nearly as good as Nylander/Ehlers, how can one pretend that we wouldn't notice that.
And as has been said multiple times (and conveniently ignored multiple times), how many Wilson's did Pittsburgh need? And was Wilson more valuable to Washington than their dominance in scoring skill?
Waiting...
