When fans first heard about Jack Eichel’s injury at the end of the Buffalo Sabres practice Wednesday, most of them went into shock.
Let’s face it: no one thought that would happen, especially at what was essentially a no-contact practice. Watching Eichel go down, screaming in pain, was a suckerpunch to Sabres fans everywhere, or as one fan put it on Facebook, “feels like someone just ran over my dog.”
Yeah: it sucked that bad.
After the shock wears off, though, comes the denial, and there have been numerous Tweets, news articles, and blog posts that have tried to convince Buffalo Sabres fans that the team is deep enough on offense that it can still win without Eichel, which is absolute garbage .