Excuse me if this seems like deja vu, considering I wrote almost exactly this same article back in 2018 - but it rings true once more. With the Buffalo Sabres season in the dumpster, and Jack Eichel in and out of the lineup recently with injury, depending on the results of his latest evaluation, it may be a smart move for the team to just shut him down for now.
Eichel missed Tuesday’s game with an upper-body injury, and he was initially expected to miss “at least a week.” Now, he’s apparently gone out-of-state for another opinion on his injury, and while we don’t know what the results of that evaluation were, he has to quarantine for seven days upon his return to Buffalo.