Jake Virtanen dumped by Swiss team

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Not putting this in the Canucks forum because he's not their player anymore and they're suffering enough.

But this is crazy. Apparently Jake, fresh off getting acquitted on sexual assault charges, earned the disfavor of his teammates on EHC Visp in the Swiss league to such an extent that he got into a physical altercation with one of them, who promptly went to management and said it was him or them (the rest of the team). They ditched his ass right before the playoffs.

Jim Benning's list of mistakes is long, but picking this absolute puke stain in the draft (and it's reported it was him and not Judd Brackett who made that pick) and sticking with him as long as he did is very likely his biggest.