From the kickoff of summer, two of the Canucks young, promising and inconsistent wingers were compared head-to-head.
It started when the Shotgun Jake movement was still in the womb, and TSN 1040 radio personality Jason Brough took a hard stance on preferring Jake Virtanen over Nikolay Goldobin.
Not one to back down from taking a hard line, The Athletic’s Jason Botchford went to bat for the enigmatic Russian, hyping him up at a time where many others were fed up with the inconsistencies.
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