With Jack Eichel expected to make his Vegas Golden Knights debut tonight, there’s bound to be a lot of chatter around the hockey world: about his future in Vegas, about how he’ll fit in with his new teammates. It’s almost unavoidable that there will also be a lot of re-hashing of his time in the 716 with the Buffalo Sabres, and how it all came to an unfortunate & very unnecessary end.
I’m going to be honest: it’s hard.
On one side, it’s clear that the Sabres as a team wanted to move on from the conversation as soon as they could.