SUNRISE, Fla. – The Sabres’ selection of Jack Eichel on Friday night was the least-suspenseful pick in team history. With no reason to dawdle, General Manager Tim Murray didn’t.
“Buffalo selects Jack Eichel,” Murray said in his only comments from the stage while making the second pick of the NHL Draft.
“I had an idea that Tim Murray was going to say that in the exact way that he said it,” Eichel said in BB&T Center. “I was told that he was going to say it like that, so it wasn’t really a surprise. I kind of liked it.