If it wasn’t already clear, the Buffalo Sabres and Jack Eichel are on opposite sides of the situation when it comes to... well, pretty much everything. That became all the more evident late Friday evening, when Eichel’s agents - Peter Fish and Peter Donatelli - released a statement.
Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News posted the statement on Twitter. Just in case you’re reading this via screenreader or can’t access the Twitter image, here’s the text of the statement:
The process is not working. As previously stated, we fully anticipated a trade by the start of the NHL free agency period.