Jake Virtanen

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Jake Virtanen
Date of birth 17th August 1996
place of birth Abbotsford , British Columbia , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
number # 18
Shot hand Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2013 , 2nd round, 65th position
KHL Medveščak Zagreb
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 6th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
2011-2015 Calgary Hitmen
2015-2017 Utica Comets
since 2015 Vancouver Canucks

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Jacob "Jake" Virtanen (born August 17, 1996 in Abbotsford , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player of Finnish descent who has been under contract with the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League since July 2014 . The right winger was selected in sixth position by the Canucks in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft .

Career

youth

Jake Virtanen was born in Abbotsford in 1996 and began playing ice hockey as a toddler in nearby Langley . A little later he returned to his hometown and played until the end of the 2010/11 season for the Abbotsford Hawks in the Pacific Coast Bantam Hockey League . In the subsequent WHL Bantam Draft 2011 Virtanen was selected by the Calgary Hitmen in first position, where he spent the next season mainly at midget level with the Fraser Valley Bruins .

In December 2011 he was on the ice for the first time for the Hitmen in the Western Hockey League , but completed only nine games this season. Virtanen has been part of the Hitmen squad since the 2012/13 season , so that in his first full season he scored 34 points in 62 games. He also reached the conference final of the play-offs with the team , where they failed 3: 4 at the Edmonton Oil Kings . With the Canadian U18 national team, he also won the gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2013 .

After 71 points from 71 games in the following season , he is ranked 6th among the most promising outfield players in North America for the NHL Entry Draft 2014 by the Central Scouting Service . He also took part in the U18 Junior World Championships in Finland in spring 2014 and won the bronze medal there with the team. In the subsequent Entry Draft, the Vancouver Canucks selected him in sixth position and took him directly under contract in July 2014, although he is still active for the hitmen for the time being.

In 2015 he took part in the U20 World Cup in his own country and won the gold medal there with the team. After the WHL season ended, the attacker was appointed to the roster of the Utica Comets , which act as the Canucks farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), and made ten playoff appearances by the end of the 2014/15 season. The Comets failed only in the final of the Calder Cup against the Manchester Monarchs .

Vancouver Canucks

As a result, Virtanen completed the pre-season at the Canucks and was able to secure a regular place in this context, so that he was in the NHL squad with the start of the 2015/16 season. During the season he took part with the Canadian selection again in the U20 World Cup, but only finished sixth with the team. The attacker then spent most of the 2016/17 season in Utica before establishing himself in the Canucks squad at the beginning of the 2017/18 season.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2011/12 Calgary Hitmen WHL 9 3 1 4th +3 4th 5 0 0 0 -4 4th
2012/13 Calgary Hitmen WHL 62 16 18th 34 +25 67 15th 2 4th 6th -2 27
2013/14 Calgary Hitmen WHL 71 45 26th 71 +23 100 6th 1 3 4th -2 4th
2014/15 Calgary Hitmen WHL 50 21st 31 52 +15 82 14th 5 8th 13 -1 28
2014/15 Utica Comets AHL - - - - - - 10 0 1 1 +2 6th
2015/16 Utica Comets AHL 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2015/16 Vancouver Canucks NHL 55 7th 6th 13 –7 45 - - - - - -
2016/17 Utica Comets AHL 65 9 10 19th –11 48 - - - - - -
2016/17 Vancouver Canucks NHL 10 0 1 1 +1 2 - - - - - -
2017/18 Vancouver Canucks NHL 75 10 10 20th –11 46 - - - - - -
2018/19 Vancouver Canucks NHL 70 15th 10 25th −4 44 - - - - - -
WHL overall 192 85 76 161 +66 253 40 8th 15th 23 –9 63
AHL total 67 9 10 19th –11 48 10 0 1 1 +2 6th
NHL overall 210 32 27 49 -21 137 - - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2013 Canada Pacific WHC 5th place 5 5 2 7th 8th
2013 Canada Ivan Hlinka 1st place, gold 5 0 1 1 -2 4th
2014 Canada U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 3 3 6th +2 10
2015 Canada U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 1 3 4th +4 4th
2016 Canada U20 World Cup 6th place 5 0 1 1 ± 0 10
Juniors overall 29 9 10 19th 36

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Private

Virtanen's father is a native of Finland , which gives Jake both Finnish and Canadian citizenship . His brother (* 1992) and his cousin (* 1996) also play ice hockey, but neither of them have made it beyond regional junior or university leagues.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mckeenshockey.com: "Interview with a Hitman: Jake Virtanen" (English, November 20, 2013, accessed on May 13, 2014)
  2. ↑ a b nhl.com: "Hitmen winger Virtanen hopes to have big year in advance of draft" (English, October 24, 2013, accessed on May 13, 2014)
Squad of the Vancouver Canucks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Virtanen, Jake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Virtanen, Jacob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Abbotsford , British Columbia , Canada