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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
If you go back to the Virtanen draft, there were a lot of posters that didn't like Virtanen based on his apparent one-dimensional skill-set. I liked him in the first half of the season with his combination of speed, grit and shot - but then you go and start noticing that he seemed like a one-trick pony. IIRC, lots of posters didn't like him heading into the draft because of this. Also, I believe Craig Button had him all the way down at the end of the 1st round or into the 2nd round. There was quite a bit of noise around Virtanen that year.
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The scouting community had the phrase "the two Jakes," both a reference to an ill-advised Chinatown sequel, and to Virtanen being either really good or really bad in games.