he was "stripped of the captaincy" bc he demanded a trade and made it clear there was no scenario in which hed ever play for the team again. What should management have just left him as the captain of a team that he had already quit on? Lmfao
He thought to be traded, because of the management change and the management suck. Sabres wasted his outstanding skills for 6 or 7 years, plus they don't want to risk on his needed surgery. VGK was blessed to have him for helping the team win the Stanley Cup, as well as his contribution to the community.
No, they took your C away cause you asked for a trade a year prior to getting hurt, your teammates didn't like you and now the fans don't either. Grow up little boy, you're not in the frat house anymore, you are a pro now, act like one
I dont blame Jack for the team being bad, but this interview completely glosses over his role in how things went. He completely threw the team under the bus in his end of season interview, which was before the agreed time to recover had elapsed. He'd so already asked to be traded way before that. They didn't "strip the captaincy" because of the surgery disagreement. That's ridiculous and just another example of how he has acted to hurt the team
Look I’ve been watching hockey since I was nine years old and played, I’m 51 now. You hit all the talking points right on the head. He’s a me guy, not captain material, leaders like drury, lead by example, the only thing he could lead is a line of coke up his nose. His interview right after this game was just another statement to his maturity, and how’s it’s everybody else’s fault, not mine. Ive never heard anyone from the Sabres organization ever come out publicly and criticize a player openly; that is until eichel. You hear former players talk about how he treated other players not his caliber, or staff. Man how I wish we could go back in time and actually win the first pick like we should have, and not hear from this loser. Since his return to hockey, the knights are 4-7 with loses to the Sabres, flyers, coyotes, and kings being the best of those 4. They are pulling a kucherov so he can play because of his talent, and sitting stone. I honestly hope they don’t make the playoffs. I wasn’t salty with briere or drury leaving, we do have problems with ownership, going back a ways. The pegulas thought they could run it like a fantasy team according to gerbe. That chemistry means way more then just talent in the room.
They also d-ked him around for the whole summer and danced around how to *fairly* address his medical situation, nobody should be coerced into a anything medical procedure wise captain or no f-king captain, I mean they treated him less then human towards the and refuse to even acknowledge alternatives…I mean if COVID taught us anything haha 😄🤷🏼♂️
*I’m not doin’ a fusion* -I’m glad he stuck to his guns regardless of what his status on the team was or was not, I deeply respect the kid for that…f-k the organization! ✋🏻 😄👋🏻
He asked for a trade the season prior and burned his bridges then. This makes it seem like they sprung all this upon him cause he wanted a new surgery. Nothing is ever his fault.
I knew this kid was trouble from early on. The body language was an issue. Then the O'Reilly saga was the end for me. The neck was an ace hge got dealt. He asked for a trade long before any issues w his neck and then used the neck to force the Sabres hand. They took the captaincy away because he quit. He was at a Boston Red Sox game on live tv the night b4 camp opened soo... oh and the Sabres thought Jack and Evander Kane had gotten too close and that Kane was a bad influence on young jack...
lmao best player buffalo has gotten in 20+ years and you call him trouble 😂 the organization was and is in shambles, O'Reilly left hating hockey and went on to win a cup and conn smythe with the blues. He didnt use his neck to force a trade dummy, neck fusion is incredibly neck mobility and needs to be reopened every 10 years. Disc replacement is experimental in the NHL but widely practiced out side of it and is far healthier. Get your head out of your stinker you dork.
Eichel was pampered from day one. Never had to earn anything, handed the C, alienated all of his teammates. Saw him out at a bar throwing a fit because they would not serve him under age. Never backed up his teammates. Didn't backcheck to save his life. Most of the team resented the preferential treatment he got and don't forget he was also a coach killer. Dan Bylsma was the best coach the Sabres had since Ruff and Eichel ran him out because he refused to learn his system. He is 100% not a leader whatsoever and the Pegulas enabled his behavior. The new core of the Sabres has each other's backs and you can see they play like a team now. Tuch is 10x the leader Eichel will never be. We won that trade for sure!
And Eichel with Vegas Knights won the Stanley Cup. Sabres couldn't make it to the playoffs. Bad team and management. Eichel is better off with great and contending team.
Eichel has potential to be one of the best players in the league. I didn’t want to believe he had an attitude problem and at first I didn’t see it but man, if he had the mentality of true warriors/captains such as toews just to give an example, eichel would be damn near unstoppable. He’s the KYLER MURRAY of the nhl.
Lol true, so many times he stopped mid play bc he missed a shot or would refuse to hustle off ice creating shitty line changes. One of the worse captains ever but has insane talent
He asked for a trade a year before the neck problems. He deserved the boos and we applauded during his tribute for his community work. Buffalo won the trade just by him leaving. This year's Sabres team is finally on the upswing and for the most part it seems like a whole new attitude with him gone. Good luck Vegas, you're gonna need it if Jack doesn't get his way.
The decade long losers Buffalo. Any sport. Is happy they lost eichel To achieve such greatness with out him. Ha ha ha ha. Fucking losers. Vegas is stoked to have him. We will be competing for the cup AGAIN. Buffalo are busy polishing their golf clubs. Losers.
He asked for a trade after going through a rebuild with the team with things looking like they were heading for another. If that's what happened he'd have been playing for a bottom team through two rebuilds for the prime of his career. I don't blame him for wanting a change.
@@jamesk4181 when you talk about horrible organizations like the Sabres... there is no such thing as a rebuild. That's what they tell the ticket buyers.
@@weeknders we have one of the best franchise records in the league since coming in... without the last 10 years we are 3rd in winning %. But sure, horrible franchise.
Didn't like Eichel since the day he was drafted. He's his biggest fan. Funniest was him thinking he was as good or better than McDavid. Good player, but overrated. Out west is going to be his worse nightmare, more physical play, grinding it out. Put a body on Jack a few times early and he gives up the rest of the game. In the long run, the Sabres did better in this trade. Here's to the Knights hopefully missing the playoffs this year for the first time.
@@cody8385 I just checked, even deducting the 15m, its still well over 20m+. Nothing to do with Eichel. This team is just ravaged with injury ALL season to key players. Literally dropping like flies lol
@@cody8385 Yah but it doesnt help that half the teams most important players are injured.. lol. Blame doesn't belong on Eichel, not his fault this team is losing or playing like shit.
Eichel is an amazing player but a terrible leader. After that post game interview his true character showed. There is a reason the Sabres didn't make the playoffs during his tenure in Buffalo. With the attitude he had, he was a locker room cancer. That's not to say there is no blame on the management either because there definitely is but lets not act like Jack is a victim.
Everyone seems to act as though this was one sided, it wasn’t. Granted, the Sabres organization could have done many things better, but Eichel is not innocent. The Pegulas (for all their faults) did try to get good players to play with him. They did go get Skinner, Hall, and Okposo. They fired Bylsma because Eichel didn’t get along with him, they tried to get Mike Babcock until the Leafs got him instead. Perhaps the Sabres tried to foist too much on Eichel too soon, but he really was not a Captain. There were whisperings that he had locker room issues, and really did not try to get close with other players on the team. I do think Eichel is a head case who is used to getting what he wants. When the choices for GM and coach did not work, choices that they consulted with Eichel about, he decided he wanted out. He requested a trade long before the neck issue, so the idea that that’s what caused this is incorrect. Eichel got what he wanted and when it didn’t work, he wanted out ant that pissed off the Pegulas and the fans. Not to mention there is a credible substance abuse issue that was going on with Eichel. There is blame to go around, from the ownership to Eichel, to the fans who supported the tank.
I've had a bad feeling about Jack since the night that he was drafted. A local Buffalo reporter asked him how he felt about going to the Sabres before the draft since it was known that Edmonton would not be picking him with the first pick in the draft. Jack kept insisting that he was going to be picked first. The Pegulas bent over backwards for him, they gave him that huge contract ! I only hope that they have finally found the GM and coach that will get the Sabres on the right track like they finally did with the Bills
You do understand that the Pegulas are 100% the reason the Sabres are a giant dumpster fire still right? Namely Kim who has ZERO clue on how to run a hockey team. How well do you expect Jack to perform when his lines are changed up every single game? Was his nearly point per game stats not good enough for you? Don't comment if you're clueless
@@PlumpHotdog such a dumpster fire, once they came in, they spent millions on locker improvements to help players jell better. They brought in top named free agent, they hired a ex Stanley cup winning coach(only to have eichel get him fired)then they were lauded at the time for hiring housley and botterill by all these so called hockey experts. Have they made mistakes, obviously. But like the bills, they keep trying. It’s not a exact science to hiring the right front office, otherwise everyone would do it. Just like drafting isn’t a exact science. If we listened to a lot of the so called experts, we wouldn’t have drafted Allen on the bills. Just like life, you hope to learn from your mistakes, I would like to think they are. I think Kevin has finally shown this team the direction it lacked in all areas of operation. And we have steadily seen improvement in a lot of areas. I don’t absolve them for their mistakes, I ask that they learn and change them. But as far as jack, I could write u a book on all his character flaws, and his “me” attitude. Just look at the first coach he got fired here, because it was his fault they were losing. Everything is everyone else’s fault. And just because you put up a point a game, doesn’t mean u are a winner. Drury was never the highest scorer on the team, but he was a winner, and led by example. The Sabres brought in lehner, Kane, orielly, to name a few to turn it around. Didn’t matter, because when u don’t play together u lose. It isn’t by chance that since he started playing for vegas that the knights are 4-7, and lost to the likes of the flyers, coyotes, Sabres, and kings. So Mayb u need to not comment unless u know what your talking about. Judging by that comment you made, sounds like your eicheless.
@@toddheywood8837 Continuity, you go through that many coaches and players nothing with gel. And come off with that Eichel got the coaches fired BS, they got fired because they weren't producing results. But instead of actually cleaning house top to bottom in the front office, Kim Pegula tried to put bandaids on things and hire people to please fans because she has no clue on how to run a hockey team. Again, Eichel was a PPG player, on a team that couldn't get out of their own way.
He mentioned after his team's loss in buffalo that's the loudest the building/crowd was in 7 years bcs he was a very lazy player no wonder crowd was silent bcs he sux
Buffalo guy here, still wear my jack jerseys... no matter who was right and wrong. It just didn't work out. I will miss him.. but glad both teams can move on
You don't think requesting a trade the season prior had anything to do with you losing the C Jack? Yes the Pegulas are complete morons and have no idea how to run an organization. Jack has every right to want out and I hope he goes on to have a long healthy career with Vegas but I don't wanna hear you complain about losing the C when you and your agents at the time made it well clear you wanted to be traded prior to the team stripping the C from you.
@@theogreenaway7401 when you are the capitan on one of the highest contracts in the league and part of the problem... it's whining. Watch Sabres games before making general statements
Eichel~This is the place I wanted to be more than anywhere! Reporter~ if you could go back in time and choose where would u want to play~ Eichel once again um idk🤔 baby wants to be in Boston
Give me Tuch over Eichel any day. Buffalo has moved on from Eichel, good riddance. Best of luck Jack, we're better off with out you. You are better off with out us.
Yes, Eichel requested a trade before the neck issues, but Sabres management was talking about rebuilding for a second time since Eichel arrived. Now fast foward two years later the Sabres are still in the same state of limbo. After Eichel had been there for 6-7 years with the team rebuild and now management wants to start another rebuild most established players might want out as well. He did talk to management about the future of the team and if they would be willing to trade him for picks/prospects to help their next rebuild obviously he didn't want to go through a rebuild again cause you cant promise any better results the next time around. Of course they butted heads over the surgical route but that should always be left up to the player. All in all every time a big name player leaves Buffalo they seem to find great success elsewhere their management has been a question mark for years.
For all the talent Jack has, he is NOT a leader.. Now, it's not all totally his fault.. I blame probably 1/3 of it on that d-bag coach Krueger they had , that had almost NO experience as a coach at all, trying to get the Sabres to play in 'a system'... Granato has done SOOOOO much better and gotten guys like Tage Thompson to the 'full-time' status they deserve, by turning them loose and guiding them along the way.. The way it's SUPPOSED to be..
Everything happens for a reason. His fate is to win the Stanley Cup in Vegas, not in Buffalo. Congrats, Jack! And thank God he is now in a better, contending team.
I’m a hometown Buffalo Sabres fan since the expansion living in Las Vegas, glad to see Jack here playing on a team that matters. What have the Pegula’s done to my hometown team? They suck.
@@ericfix0521 a terrible leader or an inexperienced freshly drafted superstar on a shit team with shit management and ownership? Not hard for a guys leadership to not develop and completely fall off when playing for a terrible team. This isn’t uncommon at all.
@@justinmillett101 valid point but being a crybaby that comes up with excuses for everything and bringing everdown around him is jack, a real man, puts it all on his shoulders and takes responsibility even when he isnt at fault. With his talent level the sky was the limit but when youre a spoiled bitch, this is how it ends and that's his nhl legacy at this point
Really ? You realize they are also the owners of the bills right? They have done a great job there ? Maybe it’s not the owners and maybe it’s the players in this case. The owners have invested a ton in the facilities and the team. Personally I think eichel rista and others that were removed from this era were toxic me players that didn’t work as a team
@@gregorygoliszek7613 You can't blame the players for being on a bad team, that's on management and the Pegulas who are notorious for meddling too much with everything.
What bull. There evidence saying you asked for a trade a year before you got injured. Don’t say the medical disagreement was the reason. They second you wanted out you should have lost the C.
Jack stuck to his guns with the while *I’m not doin’ a fusion* thing, he had the balls to shut the organization up and shut the organization down and I respect the hell of the kid for doin’ that doin’ what he felt was right for him (I’m on the ‘22 VGK Playoff bandwagon for him, because of that!) Jack has forever become the case study for future procedures too-he went though it so now he can consult other guys in similar situations and give them advice on the surgery, a big win win I think…do your do-diligent research before to submit opinionated coercion and that’s just what Eichel chose to do! ✊🏻
Hey Kevin, i think the disconnect came way before that. He asked to b traded in 2020. He had bylsma run out of town, said it was the coaches fault, we brought in orielly, Kane, lehner. None of that made a difference. The pegulas spent a shit to. Of money on the upgrade of the locker rooms so players could connect more. The nhl lauded their hiring of housley and botterill at the time. I mean have they made their share of mistakes, yes. But just like with the bills, it’s a learning process. I’m 51 and never heard players come out and publicly state what a cancer this kid was to the organization(rivet, peters). Kevin adams a ex championship player, who treated hall to his wishes and shipped both him and stall to organizations that had a chance at playoffs. But they strip eichel of his captaincy, refuse to budge on his surgery(which I believe was another mistake by the organization)but again that was a narrative jacks camp wanted pushed because it absolved him of any wrong doing. I never seen drury say anything, he went out and played, he was never the leading scorer on the team. You don’t need to be the leading scorer to be a captain of a team. You need to lead by example. Jack isn’t capable of any of that, never was. He’s a spoiled little kid. That and only that is a reason I root for him to fail. Even if he was on another team and I found all this out, I would root against him. He’s so good he’s being paid 10 million a season, but they won’t put him out in all situation like penalty kill. Because he’s only worried about HIS stats. Well since he’s joined vegas on the ice, they are 4-7 and lost to the likes of (flyers, coyotes,Sabres, kings) kings being a half way decent team. All this leads to the character of this player, and none of it says he’s a good person. So I’m glad the Sabres didn’t budge on anything. I think they do for any other player who handles themselves with professionalism, just look at jacks post game comments last night.
@@toddheywood8837 The 6 years he was here, the team was shit-I think somebody should take accountability for that…our whole organization is backwards and dysfunctional Eichel wasn’t the first!
@@KHoltzie I agree someone should take accountability for that. You seen the Sabres try to bring in big name free agents, and trades, hire what at the time were deemed the best hires. At some point the emphasis lands on the players to produce. It seems no one on the Sabres has the leadership qualities to try to make everyone around them better. After olofsson scored yesterday, they showed a quick snippet of the bench, Tuch went right to him on the bench reached over the boards and grabbed his head and said something to him. That’s someone with leadership qualities. But as far as the injury situation, that’s dicey. Just imagine u own a business, u pay this one guy huge money to help lead your organization. He gets hurt, you know there’s really nothing out there scientifically substantial that validates the surgery. You let him have hit, he gets hit and loses feeling or something, your on the hook for 10 mill a year, for a player who will never play again, and u have nothing to show for it except a gaping hole on the ice, and a albatross of a contract with no return. I agree the players should have a right to receive what ever treatment they desire, but with that said, they then take on the responsibility of their contract. If the surgery works and u never get hurt there again, your good. But if you do re injure it, and can’t play, u lose how many games salary you miss; wether or not that could b the whole 10 mill or not. Why should the organization take the hit. I mean look how many teams had to trade Nathan Hortons contract, with zero return. And it shouldn’t count against the cap either.
@@toddheywood8837 A point per game player for 6 years and you don’t allow him any flexibility on his health/medical wishes-that’s garbage and the result of a very narrow minded organization in my opinion!
@@toddheywood8837 The kicker to me was that Adams didn’t even have the balls to f-king meet with the kid face to face-they called him on the telephone to tell em he’d been stripped of the captaincy…I mean seriously what kind of shit is that??? ✋🏻😄
A great player that needs to mature. The captains "C" came too soon, needed to lead by example; he sauntered back to the bench and often looked dejected. I wish him all the best in Las Vegas
When you are the poster boy of one of the worst ran organizations in the league and EVERYONE BLAMES YOU for the team being bad it’s hard not to saunter, put yourself in his shoes, he was in a burning plane going to the ground at 1000 mph, he earned the right to saunter
@@Sonicthehedgefundmanager the thing is not one person was blaming eichel.. every single one of us fans knew he was the best player on the ice. He proved it when he was healthy and on the ice.
Look up Roam Hockey on RUclips who did a breakdown about 6 months ago with all the stats & team winning % with & without Eichel. Not all teams call their players before a trade has completed (& Eichel himself requested a trade). For me the Sabres are on the right path forward. GMTM made a lot of mistakes after the teardown but winning also falls onto the players on the ice who have to make the plays (Eichel, Rhino & Risto etc).
Roam also did a recent video that shows the current Sabres 23 & under at the start of next season is 13 (not Including Power, Levi, Johnson & Portillo) & that list also doesn't include Tage & Tuch (who are 24 & 25yo). Plus the Sabres have 10 other 2021 draft picks along with 3 1st round 2022 draft picks + just as many 2nd round draft picks.
His narrative is nonsense he wanted gone long before the surgery shenanigans, and long before they stripped him of the Captain title. He made that very clear in his end of season interview. What was the team supposed to do? Let a player who isn't playing, who expressed his desire to play elsewhere, who is currently involved in a disagreement with the team. Let the team continue with no captain instead of giving it to a current player over the guy who has had his bags packed already?
He may have great hockey skills, but possesses ZERO human skills, his outlook on himself is through the roof, not a teammate anyone wants in their locker room
I'm super happy the NHL is back on ESPN but it's hard to forgive them for all those years where they gave them basically no coverage and wouldn't even list them in the top 10 sports on their website for so long and now I think they have them listed as three or four.
He has skill but he has a crappy attitude about things. There were signs that he wasn't the right guy even before the draft and while it seemed like the right thing to do for the future of the franchise it didn't pan out. The team they have now is the type of team that can be successful.
Growing up in the Buffalo area The two guys I have Idoloized Are Jack Eichel and Josh Allen I was also a B.U collage hockey fan so I loved Eichel but his attitude ruined the culture of Sabres hockey his attuide caused this horrrible nonsense I mean at least Buffalo has Josh Allen though! But as a season ticket holder For the sabres I was there for that Tampa Goal. As much as Eichel DRUGED ME AND OTHER SABRES FANS THOURGH THE MUD! I have love apperation and respect for him I meet him he SIGHNed me a surprise hat for Christmas He is a good person! But has a horrible attuide! But I Rembr all the good things! And we have Josh Allen who is even Beeter!
There is no point to this other than slander the Sabres owners. Shows how petty and little jack is. He was never a team player … very one sided reporting here and just a dirt piece 😡
The worst thing to happen Sabres are the Pegulas and their interfernce in shit they dont understand... imagine just letting Jack have hos surgery ASAP... Imagine not signing a fotball headcoach....
They probably should have started the story with the day Jack ASKED for a trade. This puts everything that happened later in perspective. If you demand a trade, you are no longer captain material. Granted, the Sabres are a dysfunctional franchise. Look at Jack’s postgame interviews after losses and end of season press conferences. That’s not a leader. I’ll take Tuch, Krebs and the first rounder over Jack EVERY day. He will succeed in Vegas as a an alternate captain. He deserves an ‘A’ not a ‘C’. Tuch and Krebs will have great careers in Buffalo. Tuch will score a few less points than Jack for the foreseeable future but the intangibles will more than negate any lack of production.
He is basically a cry baby & it is all about him. I predict in near future every time when Knights are playing against Sabres, at home or away, Jackass is going to cry. He is NOT a team player, he will NOT make the team better because of him, which makes him just another good player. In this video, he forgot to mention the number of comments his agents and he, himself made after his injury in the very first interview he did with buffalo news & then TNT sports, that's one of the reason he was striped of the C. Bottom line, as bad as Sabres have been for past 10 years, they don't need another reason to create unhealthy environment in the locker room. I like hockey in general, growing up in Mississauga, you want to see all teams playing at a higher standard, any team that has a player like Jackass, it just make hockey miserable. May be, he grow up, I doubt it, but, time will tell.
Thanks Baby Jack for allowing us to move on from you. You are talented but obviously not a franchise type of player. GMKA got us a good haul for you & Tuch is definitely going to be a better fit for us overall .
Personally I can't stand the guy, but to think how hard teams push these guys to really bad points. It was neck surgery. Why was it even a discussion for them. They should have supported his decision.
I disagree. He wanted out of Buffalo and used this as his ticket to get out. If anything he was happy this happened so it could expedite the process. We Sabres fans are so happy he’s gone. The team still has a ways to go, but with him gone the culture of the team improved drastically.
@@gregtearny6644 I do agree that he wanted out because he requested a trade before the injury. the injury situation definetly made him want out more and gave him another reason to want out and that reason is easier to speak about in the media than whatever his reasons were before.
I stopped blaming the kiddo a few years ago and if COVID taught us anything at all it’s this: playing politics with people’s health is only gonna make s-t worse…no hard feeling Jack I’ll actually be mentally rooting for you in the seats tomorrow night too buddy! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
@@MrSpencerport I actually supported him out loud last night despite the booing-f-k the critics haha I think our fans are just salty which isn’t cool…maybe if we’d stop driving good players away and actually make the postseason thing would change! 🤷🏼♂️
Eichel was a poison in the locker room, I’m glad he is gone he will be miserable in Vegas, they mortgaged their future for a cup to start the franchise, it’s not going to happen and they will be a bad team for a long time, they are poorly run, cap trouble coming, they gave all their prospects away and draft picks good luck Eichel you will be crying for a trade again in a year or two
I cant stand Vegas... and not just because they beat the avs in the playoffs..... hopefully he's treated better than other players from Vegas which are still to come as thier 15 million dollars over the cap space....
Not a fan of the Owners of Buffalo. That being said this spoilt brat basically handcuffed them into getting him the players he wanted. Then when those players didn't work out he got frustrated and requested a trade.
I'm gonna guess you can't be objective. Hes a cancer and the most of the problems here in buffalo. Most ppl from buffalo loved him until they found out the truth.
I am glad he is out of Buffalo - Vegas is not going to make the playoffs - Jack never could be counted on to carry his team. He needs to take some public relations classes from Josh Allen. A couple years back they won 10 in a row and then wilted. Glad we got rid of all the "core" players that let that happen. Sabres are in good hands with Krebs & Tuch. Thanks Vegas for giving us hope again.
Welcome to the real world we all don’t get respect of a face to face meeting. Why should a person who plays a sport get that when blue collar workers don’t get a face to face exit
It's such a joke. Can't believe this team for how they have completely destroyed every player that has come here, completely failed to get good players and have completely alienated the fans.
@@scarycrazymann I agree man, I wholeheartedly agree-I was at the game tonight Eichel looked and played like shit but…at the end of the night his NEW team was in the a playoff position and we were not! 🤷🏼♂️
@@scarycrazymann Yeah-the only reason I went tonight is because NYS lifted *vaccine requirements* and it was Eichel…aside from that until they can actually proof themselves a contender I’d just as soon save my $!
Guy signed the second biggest contract in NHL history and two years later was trying to get out of there. Spent a lot of time pouting and making faces on the ice. One sided piece which is typical for ESPN.
He decided that he wanted the disc surgery, which he thought was best for his future not just in hockey but in life, and good for him. I'm happy for the kid. He was stripped of the captaincy because he wasn't going to be on the ice, hard to captain a team from your couch.
That was not why he was stripped of it. According to Eichel it is, but he just wants to save face. That played a part sure, but him being a distraction and moreso him already (prior to this disagreement) saying he wanted to be out of Buffalo is what did it. Fantastic talent, terrible captain.
I used to work with people that knew Eichel in college, and I'm from Eastern Massachusetts on top of that. Word gets around. I beleive Eichel is a jackass. But that doesn't mean the Sabres didn't do a number on him and it doesn't mean they treated him right and it doesn't mean the Sabres had his interests at heart. I think he now has a great chance to mature as a man and a player, and I hope he uses that opportunity well.
When you don’t take responsibility for your own actions, the whole world is to blame. Eichel is the reason why not one but two coaches and two GMs were fired, and no, he is not the entire reason for this blowout. At least 50% blame goes to the ownership & Tim Murray, the GM who drafted him in the first place. He was a spoiled brat the day was drafted. Oh we’re going to build the team around him, so whatever he wants will be granted was the environment that was created by the ownership & Murray, which resulted in what we saw in the end, took about 4 years only. Now look at the same team who is without the so-called world class talent of Eichel, playing their hearts out and most importantly playing for each other. Eichel simply has no class. He will never be an elite player like McDavid or Crosby or AO, because he lacks leadership, which comes with taking responsibility and making the team better because of your presence (Hockey is a team sport, it is not Golf or Tennis singles). Universe has a way to balance things out. Five years from now he’ll still be crying. Good riddance.
I said this a year ago and I'll say it now, Jack did this all to himself. Very rarely do you see athletes go against the opinions of team medical doctors. They just go with what the doctors tell them is standard and call it a day. Peyton Manning had the same neck issue and went ahead with the same spinal fusion procedure that Eichel refused to do. Manning is 10 times the athlete Eichel dreams to be and more importantly, 100 times a better human being. This all comes down to Eichel not being a good dude. He's a narcissist who thinks he knows whats best...better than everyone else. The saddest part of it all is he has 90% of fans out there brainwashed, exactly what a narcissist hopes to do. Nobody in Buffalo misses him. In a town when you have Josh Allen beloved and exudes team leadership Eichel turned out to be a local bum. He's nothing but an afterthought.
He basically told the team it’s my future, my health, my call & stuck his principled guns-I respect the hell out of the kiddo for such a move because what he did took *balls* ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
Wow what a victim. 80 million. Go work at Burger King if you want it your way Jack. Oh yeah, you got it your way. What a tool. We didn’t want a Stanley cup out of you Jack. We wanted to get back in the playoffs. 0/7. That’s a joke people. Anyone defending this wheenie is on the outside looking in.
Who cares what that toxic locker room cancer who was an embarrassment as a captain who couldn’t lead anyone. His teammates in Buffalo didn’t respect him. Not surprising his teams record is better without him than with him
One year later… the BEST thing to happen to Vegas. First cup in our very short existence.
he was "stripped of the captaincy" bc he demanded a trade and made it clear there was no scenario in which hed ever play for the team again. What should management have just left him as the captain of a team that he had already quit on? Lmfao
He thought to be traded, because of the management change and the management suck. Sabres wasted his outstanding skills for 6 or 7 years, plus they don't want to risk on his needed surgery. VGK was blessed to have him for helping the team win the Stanley Cup, as well as his contribution to the community.
We're glad you're in Vegas now Eichel. Welcome to our city. This is your home now. Go Knights Go!.
Its pretty funny reading these comments after how things worked out.
No, they took your C away cause you asked for a trade a year prior to getting hurt, your teammates didn't like you and now the fans don't either. Grow up little boy, you're not in the frat house anymore, you are a pro now, act like one
I dont blame Jack for the team being bad, but this interview completely glosses over his role in how things went. He completely threw the team under the bus in his end of season interview, which was before the agreed time to recover had elapsed. He'd so already asked to be traded way before that. They didn't "strip the captaincy" because of the surgery disagreement. That's ridiculous and just another example of how he has acted to hurt the team
Look I’ve been watching hockey since I was nine years old and played, I’m 51 now. You hit all the talking points right on the head. He’s a me guy, not captain material, leaders like drury, lead by example, the only thing he could lead is a line of coke up his nose. His interview right after this game was just another statement to his maturity, and how’s it’s everybody else’s fault, not mine. Ive never heard anyone from the Sabres organization ever come out publicly and criticize a player openly; that is until eichel. You hear former players talk about how he treated other players not his caliber, or staff. Man how I wish we could go back in time and actually win the first pick like we should have, and not hear from this loser. Since his return to hockey, the knights are 4-7 with loses to the Sabres, flyers, coyotes, and kings being the best of those 4. They are pulling a kucherov so he can play because of his talent, and sitting stone. I honestly hope they don’t make the playoffs. I wasn’t salty with briere or drury leaving, we do have problems with ownership, going back a ways. The pegulas thought they could run it like a fantasy team according to gerbe. That chemistry means way more then just talent in the room.
They also d-ked him around for the whole summer and danced around how to *fairly* address his medical situation, nobody should be coerced into a anything medical procedure wise captain or no f-king captain, I mean they treated him less then human towards the and refuse to even acknowledge alternatives…I mean if COVID taught us anything haha 😄🤷🏼♂️
*I’m not doin’ a fusion* -I’m glad he stuck to his guns regardless of what his status on the team was or was not, I deeply respect the kid for that…f-k the organization! ✋🏻 😄👋🏻
He did it to one team hell do it again
@@C-G585 Yeah but-one team didn’t leave him in the lurch for an entire summer…shame on the organization for being retarded! 🤦🏼♂️😄
He asked for a trade the season prior and burned his bridges then. This makes it seem like they sprung all this upon him cause he wanted a new surgery. Nothing is ever his fault.
I knew this kid was trouble from early on. The body language was an issue. Then the O'Reilly saga was the end for me.
The neck was an ace hge got dealt. He asked for a trade long before any issues w his neck and then used the neck to force the Sabres hand. They took the captaincy away because he quit. He was at a Boston Red Sox game on live tv the night b4 camp opened soo... oh and the Sabres thought Jack and Evander Kane had gotten too close and that Kane was a bad influence on young jack...
lmao best player buffalo has gotten in 20+ years and you call him trouble 😂 the organization was and is in shambles, O'Reilly left hating hockey and went on to win a cup and conn smythe with the blues.
He didnt use his neck to force a trade dummy, neck fusion is incredibly neck mobility and needs to be reopened every 10 years.
Disc replacement is experimental in the NHL but widely practiced out side of it and is far healthier. Get your head out of your stinker you dork.
Eichel was pampered from day one. Never had to earn anything, handed the C, alienated all of his teammates. Saw him out at a bar throwing a fit because they would not serve him under age. Never backed up his teammates. Didn't backcheck to save his life. Most of the team resented the preferential treatment he got and don't forget he was also a coach killer. Dan Bylsma was the best coach the Sabres had since Ruff and Eichel ran him out because he refused to learn his system. He is 100% not a leader whatsoever and the Pegulas enabled his behavior. The new core of the Sabres has each other's backs and you can see they play like a team now. Tuch is 10x the leader Eichel will never be. We won that trade for sure!
Vegas won the trade good luck with Alex tuch when he underperforms
And Eichel with Vegas Knights won the Stanley Cup. Sabres couldn't make it to the playoffs. Bad team and management. Eichel is better off with great and contending team.
Eichel has potential to be one of the best players in the league. I didn’t want to believe he had an attitude problem and at first I didn’t see it but man, if he had the mentality of true warriors/captains such as toews just to give an example, eichel would be damn near unstoppable. He’s the KYLER MURRAY of the nhl.
Lol true, so many times he stopped mid play bc he missed a shot or would refuse to hustle off ice creating shitty line changes. One of the worse captains ever but has insane talent
Toews supports sexual assault. F the Hawks!
I don't think his captaincy is the problem. It's the management.
He asked for a trade a year before the neck problems. He deserved the boos and we applauded during his tribute for his community work. Buffalo won the trade just by him leaving. This year's Sabres team is finally on the upswing and for the most part it seems like a whole new attitude with him gone. Good luck Vegas, you're gonna need it if Jack doesn't get his way.
Perfectly summed up
The decade long losers Buffalo. Any sport.
Is happy they lost eichel
To achieve such greatness with out him.
Ha ha ha ha. Fucking losers.
Vegas is stoked to have him.
We will be competing for the cup AGAIN.
Buffalo are busy polishing their golf clubs.
Losers.
He asked for a trade after going through a rebuild with the team with things looking like they were heading for another. If that's what happened he'd have been playing for a bottom team through two rebuilds for the prime of his career. I don't blame him for wanting a change.
@@jamesk4181 when you talk about horrible organizations like the Sabres... there is no such thing as a rebuild.
That's what they tell the ticket buyers.
@@weeknders we have one of the best franchise records in the league since coming in... without the last 10 years we are 3rd in winning %. But sure, horrible franchise.
It's amazing how incredibly biased this story was.
The media biased? No! They are objective!
The best thing Eichel did for Buffalo was get us Tuch, Krebs and a 1st and 2nd round pick in the draft.
Spot on!
That trade sucked for Buffalo!
@@HarrisonHollers Buffalo got rid of the cancer Eichel is.
@@markwojtulski74 you still have your owners. Same cancer
@@HarrisonHollers enjoy your coffee
Didn't like Eichel since the day he was drafted. He's his biggest fan. Funniest was him thinking he was as good or better than McDavid.
Good player, but overrated. Out west is going to be his worse nightmare, more physical play, grinding it out. Put a body on Jack a few times early and he gives up the rest of the game.
In the long run, the Sabres did better in this trade. Here's to the Knights hopefully missing the playoffs this year for the first time.
I really am enjoying how good Buffalo has been since Eichel left. Just 10-12 more seasons and they might make the playoffs 😂😂😂😂😂
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Knights 6-13 losing record with Eichel.
He’s driving the Vegas bus out of the playoffs.
Nah, literally so many starters are out of the line up... I think like 30m+ out of the line up. Definitely not Eichel lol
@@AznKorn8 well they are like 15m over the cap
@@cody8385 I just checked, even deducting the 15m, its still well over 20m+. Nothing to do with Eichel. This team is just ravaged with injury ALL season to key players. Literally dropping like flies lol
@@AznKorn8 he’s got 6 5 on 5 points as a first liner. Your best player can’t have 6 even strength points in 19 games or however many he has.
@@cody8385 Yah but it doesnt help that half the teams most important players are injured.. lol. Blame doesn't belong on Eichel, not his fault this team is losing or playing like shit.
Eichel is an amazing player but a terrible leader. After that post game interview his true character showed. There is a reason the Sabres didn't make the playoffs during his tenure in Buffalo. With the attitude he had, he was a locker room cancer. That's not to say there is no blame on the management either because there definitely is but lets not act like Jack is a victim.
Yup, he also demanded a trade b4 surgery talks which is the whole reason for a dispute over the surgery
Everyone seems to act as though this was one sided, it wasn’t. Granted, the Sabres organization could have done many things better, but Eichel is not innocent. The Pegulas (for all their faults) did try to get good players to play with him. They did go get Skinner, Hall, and Okposo. They fired Bylsma because Eichel didn’t get along with him, they tried to get Mike Babcock until the Leafs got him instead. Perhaps the Sabres tried to foist too much on Eichel too soon, but he really was not a Captain. There were whisperings that he had locker room issues, and really did not try to get close with other players on the team. I do think Eichel is a head case who is used to getting what he wants. When the choices for GM and coach did not work, choices that they consulted with Eichel about, he decided he wanted out. He requested a trade long before the neck issue, so the idea that that’s what caused this is incorrect. Eichel got what he wanted and when it didn’t work, he wanted out ant that pissed off the Pegulas and the fans. Not to mention there is a credible substance abuse issue that was going on with Eichel. There is blame to go around, from the ownership to Eichel, to the fans who supported the tank.
I had know idea what was the case. Well said.
I've had a bad feeling about Jack since the night that he was drafted. A local Buffalo reporter asked him how he felt about going to the Sabres before the draft since it was known that Edmonton would not be picking him with the first pick in the draft. Jack kept insisting that he was going to be picked first. The Pegulas bent over backwards for him, they gave him that huge contract ! I only hope that they have finally found the GM and coach that will get the Sabres on the right track like they finally did with the Bills
You do understand that the Pegulas are 100% the reason the Sabres are a giant dumpster fire still right? Namely Kim who has ZERO clue on how to run a hockey team. How well do you expect Jack to perform when his lines are changed up every single game? Was his nearly point per game stats not good enough for you? Don't comment if you're clueless
@@PlumpHotdog Kim isn’t involved with the team. That’s all terry
@@PlumpHotdog such a dumpster fire, once they came in, they spent millions on locker improvements to help players jell better. They brought in top named free agent, they hired a ex Stanley cup winning coach(only to have eichel get him fired)then they were lauded at the time for hiring housley and botterill by all these so called hockey experts. Have they made mistakes, obviously. But like the bills, they keep trying. It’s not a exact science to hiring the right front office, otherwise everyone would do it. Just like drafting isn’t a exact science. If we listened to a lot of the so called experts, we wouldn’t have drafted Allen on the bills. Just like life, you hope to learn from your mistakes, I would like to think they are. I think Kevin has finally shown this team the direction it lacked in all areas of operation. And we have steadily seen improvement in a lot of areas. I don’t absolve them for their mistakes, I ask that they learn and change them. But as far as jack, I could write u a book on all his character flaws, and his “me” attitude. Just look at the first coach he got fired here, because it was his fault they were losing. Everything is everyone else’s fault. And just because you put up a point a game, doesn’t mean u are a winner. Drury was never the highest scorer on the team, but he was a winner, and led by example. The Sabres brought in lehner, Kane, orielly, to name a few to turn it around. Didn’t matter, because when u don’t play together u lose. It isn’t by chance that since he started playing for vegas that the knights are 4-7, and lost to the likes of the flyers, coyotes, Sabres, and kings. So Mayb u need to not comment unless u know what your talking about. Judging by that comment you made, sounds like your eicheless.
@@deliriousgeorge2879 She is the PRESIDENT of Hockey operations, you really are delirious. She has everything to do with the team you mook
@@toddheywood8837 Continuity, you go through that many coaches and players nothing with gel. And come off with that Eichel got the coaches fired BS, they got fired because they weren't producing results. But instead of actually cleaning house top to bottom in the front office, Kim Pegula tried to put bandaids on things and hire people to please fans because she has no clue on how to run a hockey team. Again, Eichel was a PPG player, on a team that couldn't get out of their own way.
This guy would refuse to speak to teammates he deemed unworthy in Buffalo his former teammates eluded to it on the instigators.
this. doesnt have a leadership bone in his body. still a top 10 MAYBE top 5 player in the show; but I'm glad hes gone. Enjoy the nose beers loser
I love the Sabres, and wish Jack Eichel long life, great health and success.
Jack looks and acts like someone with a painkiller addiction. Hope he gets better soon
He mentioned after his team's loss in buffalo that's the loudest the building/crowd was in 7 years bcs he was a very lazy player no wonder crowd was silent bcs he sux
Wayyy louder when we drafted Dahlin
Buffalo guy here, still wear my jack jerseys... no matter who was right and wrong. It just didn't work out. I will miss him.. but glad both teams can move on
I don't, we're playing a lot better without him. He was crappy to fans, and crappy towards teammates
You don't think requesting a trade the season prior had anything to do with you losing the C Jack?
Yes the Pegulas are complete morons and have no idea how to run an organization. Jack has every right to want out and I hope he goes on to have a long healthy career with Vegas but I don't wanna hear you complain about losing the C when you and your agents at the time made it well clear you wanted to be traded prior to the team stripping the C from you.
absolutely.. He was trying to force his way off the team. He thinks that is what a captain does? He is a whiny quitter.
@@abucelato Yep not going to the playoffw for 5 years and being very bad for most that and want a diff3rent surgery is whiny
@@theogreenaway7401 when you are the capitan on one of the highest contracts in the league and part of the problem... it's whining. Watch Sabres games before making general statements
Eichel~This is the place I wanted to be more than anywhere! Reporter~ if you could go back in time and choose where would u want to play~ Eichel once again um idk🤔 baby wants to be in Boston
Give me Tuch over Eichel any day. Buffalo has moved on from Eichel, good riddance. Best of luck Jack, we're better off with out you. You are better off with out us.
Yes, Eichel requested a trade before the neck issues, but Sabres management was talking about rebuilding for a second time since Eichel arrived. Now fast foward two years later the Sabres are still in the same state of limbo. After Eichel had been there for 6-7 years with the team rebuild and now management wants to start another rebuild most established players might want out as well. He did talk to management about the future of the team and if they would be willing to trade him for picks/prospects to help their next rebuild obviously he didn't want to go through a rebuild again cause you cant promise any better results the next time around. Of course they butted heads over the surgical route but that should always be left up to the player. All in all every time a big name player leaves Buffalo they seem to find great success elsewhere their management has been a question mark for years.
For all the talent Jack has, he is NOT a leader.. Now, it's not all totally his fault.. I blame probably 1/3 of it on that d-bag coach Krueger they had , that had almost NO experience as a coach at all, trying to get the Sabres to play in 'a system'... Granato has done SOOOOO much better and gotten guys like Tage Thompson to the 'full-time' status they deserve, by turning them loose and guiding them along the way.. The way it's SUPPOSED to be..
Everything happens for a reason. His fate is to win the Stanley Cup in Vegas, not in Buffalo. Congrats, Jack! And thank God he is now in a better, contending team.
I’m a hometown Buffalo Sabres fan since the expansion living in Las Vegas, glad to see Jack here playing on a team that matters. What have the Pegula’s done to my hometown team? They suck.
They don’t suck collectively, but they have pooped on the Sabres.
Seymour Knox was a better owner. His franchise is a joke
Hey bud, eichel is a terrible leader and is honestly the biggest problem the last 7 years. I have inside knowledge, lets leave it at that.
@@ericfix0521 a terrible leader or an inexperienced freshly drafted superstar on a shit team with shit management and ownership? Not hard for a guys leadership to not develop and completely fall off when playing for a terrible team. This isn’t uncommon at all.
@@justinmillett101 valid point but being a crybaby that comes up with excuses for everything and bringing everdown around him is jack, a real man, puts it all on his shoulders and takes responsibility even when he isnt at fault. With his talent level the sky was the limit but when youre a spoiled bitch, this is how it ends and that's his nhl legacy at this point
Sabres owners are awful
Really ? You realize they are also the owners of the bills right? They have done a great job there ? Maybe it’s not the owners and maybe it’s the players in this case. The owners have invested a ton in the facilities and the team. Personally I think eichel rista and others that were removed from this era were toxic me players that didn’t work as a team
@@gregorygoliszek7613 You can't blame the players for being on a bad team, that's on management and the Pegulas who are notorious for meddling too much with everything.
@@maxrates so do they meddle with the Bills? They own the teams....its their business. I think they are hands on...they like to be involved.
@@philipgibson9091 Well it's not working. They will miss the playoffs for the 11th straight year!
Buffalo Sabres need to relocate
What bull. There evidence saying you asked for a trade a year before you got injured. Don’t say the medical disagreement was the reason. They second you wanted out you should have lost the C.
Jack stuck to his guns with the while *I’m not doin’ a fusion* thing, he had the balls to shut the organization up and shut the organization down and I respect the hell of the kid for doin’ that doin’ what he felt was right for him (I’m on the ‘22 VGK Playoff bandwagon for him, because of that!)
Jack has forever become the case study for future procedures too-he went though it so now he can consult other guys in similar situations and give them advice on the surgery, a big win win I think…do your do-diligent research before to submit opinionated coercion and that’s just what Eichel chose to do! ✊🏻
Hey Kevin, i think the disconnect came way before that. He asked to b traded in 2020. He had bylsma run out of town, said it was the coaches fault, we brought in orielly, Kane, lehner. None of that made a difference. The pegulas spent a shit to. Of money on the upgrade of the locker rooms so players could connect more. The nhl lauded their hiring of housley and botterill at the time. I mean have they made their share of mistakes, yes. But just like with the bills, it’s a learning process. I’m 51 and never heard players come out and publicly state what a cancer this kid was to the organization(rivet, peters). Kevin adams a ex championship player, who treated hall to his wishes and shipped both him and stall to organizations that had a chance at playoffs. But they strip eichel of his captaincy, refuse to budge on his surgery(which I believe was another mistake by the organization)but again that was a narrative jacks camp wanted pushed because it absolved him of any wrong doing. I never seen drury say anything, he went out and played, he was never the leading scorer on the team. You don’t need to be the leading scorer to be a captain of a team. You need to lead by example. Jack isn’t capable of any of that, never was. He’s a spoiled little kid. That and only that is a reason I root for him to fail. Even if he was on another team and I found all this out, I would root against him. He’s so good he’s being paid 10 million a season, but they won’t put him out in all situation like penalty kill. Because he’s only worried about HIS stats. Well since he’s joined vegas on the ice, they are 4-7 and lost to the likes of (flyers, coyotes,Sabres, kings) kings being a half way decent team. All this leads to the character of this player, and none of it says he’s a good person. So I’m glad the Sabres didn’t budge on anything. I think they do for any other player who handles themselves with professionalism, just look at jacks post game comments last night.
@@toddheywood8837 The 6 years he was here, the team was shit-I think somebody should take accountability for that…our whole organization is backwards and dysfunctional Eichel wasn’t the first!
@@KHoltzie I agree someone should take accountability for that. You seen the Sabres try to bring in big name free agents, and trades, hire what at the time were deemed the best hires. At some point the emphasis lands on the players to produce. It seems no one on the Sabres has the leadership qualities to try to make everyone around them better. After olofsson scored yesterday, they showed a quick snippet of the bench, Tuch went right to him on the bench reached over the boards and grabbed his head and said something to him. That’s someone with leadership qualities. But as far as the injury situation, that’s dicey. Just imagine u own a business, u pay this one guy huge money to help lead your organization. He gets hurt, you know there’s really nothing out there scientifically substantial that validates the surgery. You let him have hit, he gets hit and loses feeling or something, your on the hook for 10 mill a year, for a player who will never play again, and u have nothing to show for it except a gaping hole on the ice, and a albatross of a contract with no return. I agree the players should have a right to receive what ever treatment they desire, but with that said, they then take on the responsibility of their contract. If the surgery works and u never get hurt there again, your good. But if you do re injure it, and can’t play, u lose how many games salary you miss; wether or not that could b the whole 10 mill or not. Why should the organization take the hit. I mean look how many teams had to trade Nathan Hortons contract, with zero return. And it shouldn’t count against the cap either.
@@toddheywood8837 A point per game player for 6 years and you don’t allow him any flexibility on his health/medical wishes-that’s garbage and the result of a very narrow minded organization in my opinion!
@@toddheywood8837 The kicker to me was that Adams didn’t even have the balls to f-king meet with the kid face to face-they called him on the telephone to tell em he’d been stripped of the captaincy…I mean seriously what kind of shit is that??? ✋🏻😄
A great player that needs to mature. The captains "C" came too soon, needed to lead by example; he sauntered back to the bench and often looked dejected. I wish him all the best in Las Vegas
When you are the poster boy of one of the worst ran organizations in the league and EVERYONE BLAMES YOU for the team being bad it’s hard not to saunter, put yourself in his shoes, he was in a burning plane going to the ground at 1000 mph, he earned the right to saunter
@@Sonicthehedgefundmanager the thing is not one person was blaming eichel.. every single one of us fans knew he was the best player on the ice. He proved it when he was healthy and on the ice.
@@boborris1317 everyone was an exaggeration by me but I’ve seen buffalo fans take a crap on him, it’s definitely mixed reviews on eichel in buffalo.
coach killer!!!
Baby Jack blaming the other people for everything, sadly a road he takes too often.
Watch the movie Draft DAY with Kevin Cosner and Nobody attended the Star QB's Birthday
SOME KIDS WERE NEVER RAISED TO BE HUMBLE !
Yea, I'm glad he is gone. Wasn't worth a 2nd overall pick
Jack Eichel is injured again, shocker. Very happy to have Krebs and Tuch’
Glad he got the surgery he was comfortable with, wish him all the best but . Goo wild
Look up Roam Hockey on RUclips who did a breakdown about 6 months ago with all the stats & team winning % with & without Eichel. Not all teams call their players before a trade has completed (& Eichel himself requested a trade). For me the Sabres are on the right path forward. GMTM made a lot of mistakes after the teardown but winning also falls onto the players on the ice who have to make the plays (Eichel, Rhino & Risto etc).
Shout out Roam haha, he’s fun.
Roam also did a recent video that shows the current Sabres 23 & under at the start of next season is 13 (not Including Power, Levi, Johnson & Portillo) & that list also doesn't include Tage & Tuch (who are 24 & 25yo). Plus the Sabres have 10 other 2021 draft picks along with 3 1st round 2022 draft picks + just as many 2nd round draft picks.
His narrative is nonsense he wanted gone long before the surgery shenanigans, and long before they stripped him of the Captain title. He made that very clear in his end of season interview. What was the team supposed to do? Let a player who isn't playing, who expressed his desire to play elsewhere, who is currently involved in a disagreement with the team. Let the team continue with no captain instead of giving it to a current player over the guy who has had his bags packed already?
He may have great hockey skills, but possesses ZERO human skills, his outlook on himself is through the roof, not a teammate anyone wants in their locker room
Cya Salty.... Got wrecked by both Tuch and Krebs lmao.
I'm super happy the NHL is back on ESPN but it's hard to forgive them for all those years where they gave them basically no coverage and wouldn't even list them in the top 10 sports on their website for so long and now I think they have them listed as three or four.
Eichel is a really good player, but he is far to be a generational talent or even a franchise player.
How's it going Jackie boy? Gonna make the playoffs?
Jackie boy made the playoffs and won the cup. How’s Buffalo doing 😂😂
@@Tombauer97 Yep. lol. Not even close to Vegas, that's for sure. They've got a great team.
Sabres aren’t interested in putting a good team on the ice fans deserve better
Great fans in Buffalo, and fans who really know the game.
He has skill but he has a crappy attitude about things. There were signs that he wasn't the right guy even before the draft and while it seemed like the right thing to do for the future of the franchise it didn't pan out. The team they have now is the type of team that can be successful.
Growing up in the Buffalo area The two guys I have Idoloized Are Jack Eichel and Josh Allen I was also a B.U collage hockey fan so I loved Eichel but his attitude ruined the culture of Sabres hockey his attuide caused this horrrible nonsense I mean at least Buffalo has Josh Allen though! But as a season ticket holder For the sabres I was there for that Tampa Goal. As much as Eichel DRUGED ME AND OTHER SABRES FANS THOURGH THE MUD! I have love apperation and respect for him I meet him he SIGHNed me a surprise hat for Christmas He is a good person! But has a horrible attuide! But I Rembr all the good things! And we have Josh Allen who is even Beeter!
THE LEASON I WANT YOU TO LEARN IS THINK OF THE POSITVE!
Also when you have such great fans like us do not ditch us Eichel!
Josh Allen is in a whole different league than Jack Eichel…. Literally
Druged?
@@canadianroot Jack did naughty things to max boy growing up.
Anyone else from Buffalo hear the rumor Jack was a massive coke head?
I’ll be there tomorrow night and I know jack will get booed but he honestly doesn’t deserve it
We cheer our former players in Vegas... I hope he receives the same.
He should have kept his mouth shut.
@@jayem1826 his body you bum
@@niggasaurusrex9482 So you support a women's right to chose. Got it.
Haha should have never been the captain anyway 😂
There is no point to this other than slander the Sabres owners. Shows how petty and little jack is. He was never a team player … very one sided reporting here and just a dirt piece 😡
The worst thing to happen Sabres are the Pegulas and their interfernce in shit they dont understand... imagine just letting Jack have hos surgery ASAP... Imagine not signing a fotball headcoach....
Eichel goes to Vegas thinking Stanley Cup...now they'll be lucky to even make the playoffs.
They probably should have started the story with the day Jack ASKED for a trade. This puts everything that happened later in perspective. If you demand a trade, you are no longer captain material. Granted, the Sabres are a dysfunctional franchise. Look at Jack’s postgame interviews after losses and end of season press conferences. That’s not a leader. I’ll take Tuch, Krebs and the first rounder over Jack EVERY day. He will succeed in Vegas as a an alternate captain. He deserves an ‘A’ not a ‘C’. Tuch and Krebs will have great careers in Buffalo. Tuch will score a few less points than Jack for the foreseeable future but the intangibles will more than negate any lack of production.
He is basically a cry baby & it is all about him. I predict in near future every time when Knights are playing against Sabres, at home or away, Jackass is going to cry. He is NOT a team player, he will NOT make the team better because of him, which makes him just another good player. In this video, he forgot to mention the number of comments his agents and he, himself made after his injury in the very first interview he did with buffalo news & then TNT sports, that's one of the reason he was striped of the C. Bottom line, as bad as Sabres have been for past 10 years, they don't need another reason to create unhealthy environment in the locker room. I like hockey in general, growing up in Mississauga, you want to see all teams playing at a higher standard, any team that has a player like Jackass, it just make hockey miserable. May be, he grow up, I doubt it, but, time will tell.
Eichel overhyped ahah the Eichel effect is in :)
Thanks Baby Jack for allowing us to move on from you. You are talented but obviously not a franchise type of player. GMKA got us a good haul for you & Tuch is definitely going to be a better fit for us overall .
Conveniently (as always) leaves out how he requested a trade long before the neck thing ever happened
Last night krebs scored 1st and tuch put the game away when he bullied eichel, took the puck, and put it in the empty net to seal the win
Personally I can't stand the guy, but to think how hard teams push these guys to really bad points. It was neck surgery. Why was it even a discussion for them. They should have supported his decision.
You can tell that he is still really hurt about how the team handled the situation and that frustrates him still and hurts him.
I disagree. He wanted out of Buffalo and used this as his ticket to get out. If anything he was happy this happened so it could expedite the process. We Sabres fans are so happy he’s gone. The team still has a ways to go, but with him gone the culture of the team improved drastically.
@@gregtearny6644 I do agree that he wanted out because he requested a trade before the injury. the injury situation definetly made him want out more and gave him another reason to want out and that reason is easier to speak about in the media than whatever his reasons were before.
And.... your team isn’t going to make the play-offs. Now you can have a long summer. The kind of summer you’re used to.
Funny thing is I like jack more then mcdavid and glad Eichel came to Vegas
He's not a great player, if he is he's never shown it.
How can you tell you’re going to be traded when you play for the Sabres? You’re wearing the captain’s C. As in, c you later alligator.
you ain't wrong lmfaooo
I stopped blaming the kiddo a few years ago and if COVID taught us anything at all it’s this: playing politics with people’s health is only gonna make s-t worse…no hard feeling Jack I’ll actually be mentally rooting for you in the seats tomorrow night too buddy! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
" mentally rooting for you " LOL
@@MrSpencerport I actually supported him out loud last night despite the booing-f-k the critics haha I think our fans are just salty which isn’t cool…maybe if we’d stop driving good players away and actually make the postseason thing would change! 🤷🏼♂️
11 YEARS of failure-guys start to talk! O’Reilly did it, Reinhart too…shitty is shitty!
I think Jack's post game press comments show who the real Jack Eichel is. Spiteful,bitter, and he only has himself to blame.
They should have fixed his ego while they were in there cause it's still herniated after getting taught a lesson by Buffalo and Tuch and Krebs 😂
Vegas won the trade
Eichel was a poison in the locker room, I’m glad he is gone he will be miserable in Vegas, they mortgaged their future for a cup to start the franchise, it’s not going to happen and they will be a bad team for a long time, they are poorly run, cap trouble coming, they gave all their prospects away and draft picks good luck Eichel you will be crying for a trade again in a year or two
I cant stand Vegas... and not just because they beat the avs in the playoffs..... hopefully he's treated better than other players from Vegas which are still to come as thier 15 million dollars over the cap space....
Not a fan of the Owners of Buffalo. That being said this spoilt brat basically handcuffed them into getting him the players he wanted. Then when those players didn't work out he got frustrated and requested a trade.
Buffalo Sabres need to relocate
Preferably to Quebec
Hamilton
I'm going to hazard a guess that the comments from Mike Browne, Gregory Goliszek, and Kevin Roeder are burner accounts. It's like blatantly obvious.
I'm gonna guess you can't be objective. Hes a cancer and the most of the problems here in buffalo. Most ppl from buffalo loved him until they found out the truth.
I had the fusion 3 years ago worst decision of my life
I am glad he is out of Buffalo - Vegas is not going to make the playoffs - Jack never could be counted on to carry his team. He needs to take some public relations classes from Josh Allen. A couple years back they won 10 in a row and then wilted. Glad we got rid of all the "core" players that let that happen. Sabres are in good hands with Krebs & Tuch. Thanks Vegas for giving us hope again.
Welcome to the real world we all don’t get respect of a face to face meeting. Why should a person who plays a sport get that when blue collar workers don’t get a face to face exit
Kevyn Adams CALLED me-no face to face meeting for something like that WOW just WOW! 🤦🏼♂️😄🤦🏼♂️
It's such a joke. Can't believe this team for how they have completely destroyed every player that has come here, completely failed to get good players and have completely alienated the fans.
@@scarycrazymann I agree man, I wholeheartedly agree-I was at the game tonight Eichel looked and played like shit but…at the end of the night his NEW team was in the a playoff position and we were not! 🤷🏼♂️
@@scarycrazymann Yeah-the only reason I went tonight is because NYS lifted *vaccine requirements* and it was Eichel…aside from that until they can actually proof themselves a contender I’d just as soon save my $!
@Kevin Holtz all my jerseys that I had are all players that don't play on the Sabres anymore. And I've only had then since 2016
@@scarycrazymann I hear ya bruh-times are tough up in BUF!
Guy signed the second biggest contract in NHL history and two years later was trying to get out of there. Spent a lot of time pouting and making faces on the ice. One sided piece which is typical for ESPN.
absolutely
Sureee
So glad he’s not a Ranger
He decided that he wanted the disc surgery, which he thought was best for his future not just in hockey but in life, and good for him. I'm happy for the kid. He was stripped of the captaincy because he wasn't going to be on the ice, hard to captain a team from your couch.
That was not why he was stripped of it. According to Eichel it is, but he just wants to save face. That played a part sure, but him being a distraction and moreso him already (prior to this disagreement) saying he wanted to be out of Buffalo is what did it.
Fantastic talent, terrible captain.
11 years and counting
Dahlin incoming
So messed up for a team to dictate medical decisions.
Its in the CBA. Maybe that should be addressed, but the players agreed to it. Those are the rules. Eichel knew it.
The music tho lol, so dramatic
Never deserved the captainship in the first place
I used to work with people that knew Eichel in college, and I'm from Eastern Massachusetts on top of that. Word gets around. I beleive Eichel is a jackass. But that doesn't mean the Sabres didn't do a number on him and it doesn't mean they treated him right and it doesn't mean the Sabres had his interests at heart. I think he now has a great chance to mature as a man and a player, and I hope he uses that opportunity well.
there’s actually a report where Josh allen completely denied another commercial with eichel and told pegulas to not ask again
Glad he's not in Buffalo he'll be better elsewhere
When you don’t take responsibility for your own actions, the whole world is to blame. Eichel is the reason why not one but two coaches and two GMs were fired, and no, he is not the entire reason for this blowout. At least 50% blame goes to the ownership & Tim Murray, the GM who drafted him in the first place. He was a spoiled brat the day was drafted. Oh we’re going to build the team around him, so whatever he wants will be granted was the environment that was created by the ownership & Murray, which resulted in what we saw in the end, took about 4 years only. Now look at the same team who is without the so-called world class talent of Eichel, playing their hearts out and most importantly playing for each other. Eichel simply has no class. He will never be an elite player like McDavid or Crosby or AO, because he lacks leadership, which comes with taking responsibility and making the team better because of your presence (Hockey is a team sport, it is not Golf or Tennis singles). Universe has a way to balance things out. Five years from now he’ll still be crying. Good riddance.
We miss ya Jack!
Fraud
The Sabres did him so dirty, I'm glad he's free
He requested a trade a season earlier this is how he got the trade
I said this a year ago and I'll say it now, Jack did this all to himself. Very rarely do you see athletes go against the opinions of team medical doctors. They just go with what the doctors tell them is standard and call it a day. Peyton Manning had the same neck issue and went ahead with the same spinal fusion procedure that Eichel refused to do. Manning is 10 times the athlete Eichel dreams to be and more importantly, 100 times a better human being. This all comes down to Eichel not being a good dude. He's a narcissist who thinks he knows whats best...better than everyone else. The saddest part of it all is he has 90% of fans out there brainwashed, exactly what a narcissist hopes to do. Nobody in Buffalo misses him. In a town when you have Josh Allen beloved and exudes team leadership Eichel turned out to be a local bum. He's nothing but an afterthought.
The team wants him to play is the team doctor going to go against the team that pays his salary?
Sounds like he should run for President.
He basically told the team it’s my future, my health, my call & stuck his principled guns-I respect the hell out of the kiddo for such a move because what he did took *balls* ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
That guy puts fat dips in
Wow what a victim. 80 million. Go work at Burger King if you want it your way Jack. Oh yeah, you got it your way. What a tool. We didn’t want a Stanley cup out of you Jack. We wanted to get back in the playoffs. 0/7. That’s a joke people. Anyone defending this wheenie is on the outside looking in.
Who cares what that toxic locker room cancer who was an embarrassment as a captain who couldn’t lead anyone. His teammates in Buffalo didn’t respect him. Not surprising his teams record is better without him than with him
EicheLLLLLLLLL