The whole point of getting a superstar player is that they can sometimes put a team on their backs and lead them to victory. For Jack Eichel, tonight wasn’t his best game ever, but for the final ten minutes and in overtime, he was the best player on the ice and willed the Sabres to a 5-4, come-from-behind overtime win.
Eichel scored the game winner in overtime, and boy was it fantastic. After a few missed chances, the second-year center took the puck coast-to-coast, cut in to the middle amidst three defenders, and roofed a quick wrister home to send the Sabres home with their third straight overtime win, the first time the franchise has done that since the 2006 season.