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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Craig Button must take some guilty pleasure in Virtanen's struggles thus far. While most (all?) other publications had Virtanen ranked top 12, Button had him mid-40s. He didn't believe Virtanen's game would translate to the NHL.
Edit: beaten by AC
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Honestly I don't know how anyone that watched him regularly (as Craig did) wouldn't arrive at the conclusion. Virtanen's game always reeked of junior level offense and that his very poor hockey IQ would be an issue.
I think he'll end up being a solid 3rd liner but the warts were really obvious and I think if he got past the Canucks you would have seen him drop like a rock to the late teens at minimum
And then the Canucks made it worse by rushing him to the NHL for no reason at all.
If they were intent on drafting this type of player they should have taken Nick Ritchie