Rumor: TSN 1040: Paul Chapman / Sekeres - Most calls about Virtanen - Source

[Grantham]

He was by far our fastest and most physical forward.Finally started to play a complete game and was reliable defensively.

6’ 226 lbs, 22 years old, you don’t trade these players.

Benning I just slightly forgave you for trading our 1st with the Ferland signing. Trade all your other stupid signings first before you touch Jake.

 

[Ace of Hades]

Canucks pass

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Why on earth would the Sabres trade Risto for a forward who's ~half as productive as Risto is?

Closer than you think. Risto is a #4 Dman on a good team with a salary of 5.4M. Virtanen is a cheap fast heavy player with 20 goal potential.

 

[tsujimoto74]

Closer than you think. Risto is a #4-5 Dman on a good team with a salary of 5.4M. Virtanen is a cheap fast heavy player with 20 goal potential.

Risto is a top 4 defenseman on any team in the leauge. Virtanen is a top 6 forward on about 0 of them.

 

[PG Canuck]

Suffer through the years of kid-Jake just to watch him become man-Jake somewhere else. I'd rather not see that happen. You know that wherever Virtanen gets traded to, he is gonna break out, so you better be getting something as good as Virtanen could be because otherwise you're gonna get fleeced.

No, we don’t know that.

 

[themelkman]

I would love to see the sharks interested, although I heard Vancouver wants to try to not suck this year so they might not be willing to trade in the pacific

 

[Canucks1096]

He was by far our fastest and most physical forward.Finally started to play a complete game and was reliable defensively.

6’ 226 lbs, 22 years old, you don’t trade these players.

Benning I just slightly forgave you for trading our 1st with the Ferland signing. Trade all your other stupid signings first before you touch Jake.

7 goals in his last 52 games

 

[JTmillerForA1stLOL]

Virtanen is like our only dispensable player that actually carries some kind of value. He's pretty much the only trade asset the team has.

Can't afford to trade the studs and everybody else sucks and/or has an awful contract.

Nice job Benning. Jake Virtanen is the only card you have outside of draft picks which you hand out like candy.

 

[Grantham]

7 goals in his last 52 games

And how many hits?

Also, how many goals did Erickson, Sutter, Beagle have in that same stretch?

Get rid of that trash first

 

[Carnal]

idk maybe it's just me, don't the canucks need to have these younger, cheaper guys in their lineup since they're paying their bottom 6 crazy money?

Are you insinuating long expensive contracts to players like Eriksson, Sutter, Beagle, Gagner, Gudbranson, Sbisa, Gagner, Etc. is not the way to win??

 

[Dan Kelly]

Are you insinuating long expensive contracts to players like Eriksson, Sutter, Beagle, Gagner, Gudbranson, Sbisa, Gagner, Etc. is not the way to win??

Don’t forget about Gagner

 

[Bankerguy]

Here's my just for fun proposal

Eriksson
Juolevi
Virtanen
Tanev

For
Risto
Sobotka

Canucks free up $3MM cap space for next year and arn't tied to Eriksson's contract going forward.
Sabres get rid of Risto (not even sure why they want to), and take on a bad contract while giving up a less bad contract.
Tanev fills the void Risto leaves for a year and the reason they do this is because they see value in Juolevi and Virtanen

 

[Mido]

Are you insinuating long expensive contracts to players like Eriksson, Sutter, Beagle, Gagner, Gudbranson, Sbisa, Gagner, Etc. is not the way to win??

2014 was a long time ago, Jet Black Jim will ride again.

 

[John Johnson]

Are you insinuating long expensive contracts to players like Eriksson, Sutter, Beagle, Gagner, Gudbranson, Sbisa, Gagner, Etc. is not the way to win??

You forgot Gagner.

 

[izzy]

Closer than you think. Risto is a #4 Dman on a good team with a salary of 5.4M. Virtanen is a cheap fast heavy player with 20 goal potential.

no

risto is definitely overplayed and probably not a top pairing dman but theres no way he’s any worse than a #3.

the ideal situation for risto is the same kind of situation shattenkirk had in st louis, gus has in chicago or yandle has in florida

 

[Carnal]

You forgot Gagner.

I hope you had a long day at work.

 

[Carnal]

Don’t forget about Gagner

I guess I should go back and bold his name, or list it twice... I'm doing something wrong here.

 

[bukwas]

I think it’s a myth that teams being in that 7th-10th spot stagnate there. Teams like Calgary and Nashville for instance spent varying time in these spots before becoming elite.

My goodness, that word is thrown around loosely here.

 

[thadd]

Please no more Puljujarvi + Lucic for Ericsson + Virtanen proposals....

 

[Horse McHindu]

My goodness, that word is thrown around loosely here.

I dislike the Flames as much as the next guy, but they finished 2nd in the standings last year. Although my memory is fading, I seem to recall Nashville doing extremely well in the standings fairly recently as well. Both teams spent some time in the middle as well.

Hence my statement. I will concede that elite may have not been the correct word to use.

 

[Oddbob]

Why would Vancouver move Virtanen.

Why is this a big question mark? A 25 pt player is a big deal if moved? I highly doubt there is significant interest in him as this thread suggests. He is like every other depth forward in that they are all replaceable and have little value.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

gonna say Gusev based hopefully.

So move a guy for another guy that wants more than the guy you moved? They need to move cap. Not add.

 

[Cancuks]

Virtanen is still very young. Reminds me a lot of another 6th overall pick Brett Connolly and look at how long he took to develop. It was a bad pick by Benning but Virtanen does have value because of his potential to be a 20-20 guy. I think he's worth what Connolly got when he got traded which was two second round picks.

 

[Thorvat]

DEAL !!!!

OR NO DEAL!!!!

 

[JuniorNelson]

I doubt Vancouver moves this player. The club overvalues him, if anything. Perhaps after the season starts something might develop?

I would rather imagine this is a team building around emerging stars, attempting a balanced (skill x physical) line-up.