What exactly makes Eichel so much better am I missing something here?
He's just a more talented, skilled player, pretty simple. It's evident when you watch them play. He's gotten the same or better results on a team with a lot less to work around the past season and a quarter. He has to do almost everything for Buffalo when they're scoring. Lug the puck into the zone, make the play, score the goal etc. He leads them in goals and assists and has an 11 point gap on next leading scorer on Buffalo. I'd say his elite skating ability is the biggest thing that separates him from Chef, who's great himself.
He's gotten better all around too, he's really broken out as one of the elite, elite players in the league.
To me he's closer to someone like Nathan MacKinnon than he is Mark Schifele.