He’s ultimately not responsible for the mistakes made by GMs of the past and he’s certainly not accountable for what whims ownership wants to carry through with. There’s empathy to be had for Adams in all this. That’s good, because once those guys are gone they’re going to need him to be the anchor of the ship in the storm of what will be yet another rebuild that’s spurred on by blunders of the not-so distant past. Dylan Cozens said he wants to be in Buffalo forever. The younger guys who excelled under Don Granato are excited about their own future but seemingly saddened at the thought of losing Eichel and Reinhart. Now he’ll be able to ask for much more and seems eager to do it anywhere other than Buffalo. Had the Sabres and Botterill done a long-term contract three years ago the team would be in a much better position with him locked up at a good rate.
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Reinhart is a year away from being an unrestricted free agent and has the option to go to arbitration this summer. He put up arguably the most impressive year of his career all while moving back to center. He’s a restricted free agent again this summer and after the wasteland that was this season, he’s also ready to check out. In Sam Reinhart’s case the self-inflicted wounds of never signing him to a long-term contract when his previous deals were up have come to roost. In Jack’s case, the head-butting over injuries and treatment are enough to push him over the brink. Six straight seasons of losing hockey, two of which they were the worst team in the NHL and only getting above 80 points once would be enough to make any player want to seek a new address. Choosing poorly has been the franchise’s modus operandi for years now an ultimate example of “play stupid games, win stupid prizes,” except they’ve only won nothing and came out worse for the wear for it.īut to be blindsided by this would be histrionics. Sure, Eichel may be considering a new kind of surgery to repair the herniated disk, as Elliotte Friedman shared in 31 Thoughts, but messing with one’s neck is serious business for sport and for living life.
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That they’d fight with him over how to handle a neck injury is remarkable. After all, Eichel is a major investment made by the organization in a player they believed would get them to the playoffs and beyond. It’s incredible to think ownership would have priorities so out of whack that they’d be at loggerheads with their superstar captain with five years and $50 million left on his contract about his health and how to handle it.
After the sudden firings of Jason Botterill, Randy Sexton, and Steve Greeley last year followed by the hiring of Kevyn Adams and the rumblings of how he listened to calls on Eichel this was destiny to happen.īut destiny is only how the story plays out, and destiny can be changed, but instead this is the journey of how we’ve gotten to this impasse between team and player and ownership that’s got priorities somehow on other things.
On Monday, Jack Eichel made it clear there were serious problems between the Buffalo Sabres and himself regarding his most recent neck injury and the other injuries he’s sustained in the past couple years. Deep down we all knew it would come down to this, it was just a matter of when it would happen.
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