I was referring to Eichel requesting a trade, not the fans. I never once said anything bad about Eichel. He's a badass and I'm a huge fan of his. But 5 seasons and zero playoffs isn't much better than 6. And to compare to McDavid, does anyone bash him? No they bash the joke of a franchise he plays for. Similar to Eichel.
Its like you look for any reason to jo Eichel. No one outside of leafs fans trolling are saying anything negative about his on ice play. Hes awesome and his team sucks.
I don’t go around looking for
Reasons to “jo” Eichel, not sure what that was meant to say but I’ll assume you mean praise or bring up Eichel, I’ve posted on these forums longer then probably half The boards have watched the NHL and discuss many different topics. Why wouldn’t it be relevant to discuss him in this thread? Lol
And again you got how many years he’s played in wrong it’s just four seasons, and as you admit he’s tried to make the best out of bad circumstances.
Even if you’re not cracking at him others do and it Makes no sense, so forgive me if I elaborate on why it’s ridiculous to suggest things when people do it all the time. I don’t get the hypocrisy, It’s not like tavares was crucified all those years never making the playoffs on the island except one or two times after years and years without.
I mean Eichel literally improved his team the first year he joined because they finished dead last the year before he arrived by like over ten points I believe. I mean like I said even as is he plays 1/3rd a game it’s Kind of hard in that scenario to make the playoffs wth no Depth scoring, goaltending or defense, not to mention coaching .....and throughout those four years his best linemate he’s had this entire time has a career high is 63 points which he got playing with Jack Eichel. I’m Reiterating this to you not only because you agree with me but for people Who actually haven’t looked at his brief Four year History properly. I mean what he is supposed to do that mcdavid hasn’t, I just briefly (for me lol) looked at his team in those four years and it’s pretty interesting what I found....
In those four years, two of them were wrecked because of injury and both times he spent the other part of the year recovering from injury (and playing incredible despite this) you saw the improvement in year one after them being dead last the year before the jumped quite a lot. I’m certainly aware Matthews took a team from dead last to the playoffs the next year in his rookie season which was a similar team point jump buffalo got from the addition of Eichel too,, difference being they just made the playoffs...but he also had the additions that season of Marner Nylander Zaitsev (who was good in his first year) and most importantly a starting goalie, something Eichel never has had as Lehrer battled personal issuss.
I like this fact the most right here, In year two he couldn’t of done anything about the team being bad because his season didn’t start the year, tripped over girgensens stick backwards spraining his ankle and missing two and a half months. Despite this at 19 In his second season playing just four and a half months he almost went PPG (0.95) still finished ahead of Mackinnon in points after he played a whole year, and ahead of mcdavid in transition rushes which is insane as this was mcdavids first full season at 100 points and he is the master at that. Jack finished eleventh that year in points per game too.
Fun fact actually: because he was 11th in PPG in just his 2nd season he actually missed out on a two million dollar bonus in His contract because draisaitl got an assist on mcdavids empty netter on the last day of the year putting Leon as tenth best. Lol
In year 3 he got injured halfway through and by the time the time he returned Buffalo was so far out of it they couldn’t recover. Then in year 4, they were first overall in early December then took a nose dive. No secondary scoring, he had over fifty more Pts then the second line center and goaltending went to hell with our best dman being 18 and no coaching again lol....
So no it will be his 5th and we will see but as I’ve pointed it out above, of those 4 years in only 2 he could “realistically” made a Taylor Hall New Jersey I’ll take you there run. One when he was a rookie and the other last year and to be honest when he got injured in December for two weeks this year buffalo was well in a playoff spot, so it’s not as bad as people think. And while frustrated I think even he realizes this and will not talk about being moved until say least the end of Year six. And that’s just talk and I doubt it would be made publically unlike some others...