The National Hockey League and its fans are finally starting to take notice what the Buffalo Sabres have known all along - Jack Eichel is very clearly not inferior to NHL Draft number one picks Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews.
Eichel is currently on an eleven-game points streak, tied for second longest in the NHL this season and one game behind the best by Mikael Granlund. The Sabres record is sixteen games, held by perpetual whipping boy Tim Connolly from the 2009-10 season.
With the Sabres’ chances of making the playoffs all but over, it was easy to forget how good a season the 2015 #2 Draft pick was having as a 20-year-old in the NHL.