The first few pages of this thread are downright comical. Self appointed experts who said Eichel has no talent, IQ, vision, effort, leadership, etc. you might as well come out and say "I really don't know how to evaluate a player and have no idea what I'm talking about."
Even skills aside, those who said he should have never been made captain... even if he didn't have the 'C' he'd still be the unquestioned leader of the Sabres. It's not even close.
He’s always just had haters none of those people were wrong as much as they were ignorant. They didn’t actually ever watch him play to begin with.