Former Canucks Forward Virtanen Released from KHL Team

Jake Virtanen is no longer a member of Spartak Moscow.

The KHL club announced that Virtanen has been launched from the club on Monday afternoon thanks to a “breach of contract”, in accordance to Sport-Categorical in Russia.

It is just not very clear what that means, but the news arrives as lots of gamers have still left the KHL adhering to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine before this month.

Virtanen performed 36 video games for Spartak Moscow this time, scoring 9 targets and 7 assists for 16 details that landed him ninth in in general team scoring.

As the 25-12 months-aged now searches for a new residence, it arrives with significant troubles.

Virtanen was billed with 1 count of sexual assault in January stemming from an alleged incident that took area in Sept. 2017, although Virtanen was a member of the Vancouver Canucks. The costs had been filed as a final result of an investigation undertaken by the Vancouver Law enforcement Section in May well of 2021 just after the alleged victim, a 23-yr-aged female, came ahead about her experience with the former first-spherical decide on to file an official report.

The situation from Virtanen is at present shifting to demo in the British Columbia Supreme Court docket, with Virtanen’s lawyer representing him in front of a choose for the initially time back in February.

With Virtanen’s murky lawful condition, it is unclear whether an additional NHL or alternate experienced hockey organization will decide on to associate them selves with him till the issue is fixed.

As of now, nevertheless, Virtanen’s KHL tenure is in excess of.