Watch Canucks’ Jake Virtanen score goal with his face (Video)
What do hockey coaches always say? “Go to the net and good things will happen.” Sometimes that involves the puck going in off your face. That’s the risk.
On Thursday night, Vancouver Canucks prospect Jake Virtanen did just that on the power play and scored in interesting fashion during a 5-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers:
“Next thing I remember, (Bo) Horvat is on top of me screaming, ‘You scored!'” Virtanen said, via Jason Botchford of the Province.
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The 19-year old Virtanen, who Vancouver selected sixth overall in 2014, went to the dressing room and received a few stitches near his left eye. He returned for the start of the third period and would set up a Bo Horvat goal 54 seconds in.
The line of Virtanen, Horvat and Sven Baertschi turned plenty of heads after combining for three goals and 10 points. The VHB line were responsible for all of the Canucks’ scoring, aside from Ben Hutton’s goal and Yannick Weber’s two points.
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