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Canucks notebook: More bad news for Ferland, more opportunity for Virtanen?

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The Province Hockey
Jan 4, 2021 12:15 AM

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Concussion-plagued Micheal Ferland is not at camp and his playing future may be in jeopardy Of the 36 players and four goalies who went through weekend medicals and testing with the Vancouver Canucks in advance of on-ice, training-camp sessions commencing Monday morning at Rogers Arena, nobody was limping. So far, we don’t have any injuries that we’re aware of with any of our returning players,” said general manager Jim Benning.

In Game 2 of the post-season series against Minnesota, the winger lasted just four shifts and had 2:36 of ice time in the first period of a 4-3 victory.

He’ll continue to rehab and we can only hope that he will start to feel better and go from there.” Ferland was deemed “unfit to play” at outset of the Canucks’ camp in July, but returned in advance of scrimmages and was buoyed by his progress.

Progression is something we want to see, and not just him, but in a lot of our young players.

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