Canucks' Virtanen dealing with hip pointer, could be out weeks

Canucks' Virtanen dealing with hip pointer, could be out weeks

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Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports

The Vancouver Canucks may be without forward Jake Virtanen for the foreseeable future.

General manager Jim Benning was on TSN Radio in Vancouver on Thursday, and said the rookie has a hip injury.

"(Virtanen's) got a hip pointer, he'll be out for a little bit," Benning said. "We don't know, we'll just have to see day to day how it improves, and how it heals, but he could be out, for, a week-to-week thing."

Virtanen was drafted sixth overall in 2014 and has a goal and three assists in 19 games.

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