Whenever some big league-breaking trade or free agency acquisition happens, it’s completely natural to end up repeating, “but why not us?” And you can repeat it and repeat it all week long until you come to the realization that maybe it just wasn’t the right time. You start to live with the fact that that really good player just isn’t on your team, no matter how many jersey photoshops you witnessed.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, Jack Eichel was traded by the Buffalo Sabres to the Vegas Golden Knights in a fairly meh deal.