Just when you think the Vancouver Canucks couldn’t get hit with the injury bug any worse, more and more guys just keep getting banged up.
In the midst of a career season, 22-year-old Jake Virtanen has been ruled out for a month with a fractured rib, head coach Travis Green announced Monday. As if it wasn’t hard enough for the Canucks to deal with injuries to their top defencemen in Alexander Edler (concussion), and Chris Tanev (ankle).
Brandon Sutter and Sven Baertschi — two of Vancouver’s most important forwards — are also injured.