As the Vancouver Canucks push on with the youth movement, one young player on the wrong side of the fence is Ronalds Kenins, who endeared himself to the fans of Vancouver under former coach John Tortorella and the old Mike Gillis regime.
But with his contract set to expire, the “Latvian Locomotive” might be on his way back to Europe, potentially to the Swiss Elite Leauge. According to the Swiss source Tages-Anzeiger, as 2016 draft phenom Auston Matthews makes his way out of the Elite League, Kenins might be on his way into the Swiss hockey ranks.