The Vancouver Canucks may have won the night, sending the Buffalo Sabres deeper below .500 with a 4-2 win on the road, but it was Jack Eichel, on the losing end of the matchup, whose name stole the headlines Friday.
And deservedly so.
A day after fellow youngster Connor McDavid dished out his latest masterpiece on ice, the 20-year-old Eichel might have made the play of the Sabres' young season, going from one end of the ice to the other to give Buffalo a 2-1 lead during Friday's contest -- bewildering Vancouver defenseman Ben Hutton in the process:
Incoming end-to-end @Jack_Eichel11!!! pic.twitter.com/2bJOJnQYxf
— NHL (@NHL) October 21, 2017
Filthy end-to-end goal from Jack Eichel pic.twitter.com/M4XEXU3E7k
— Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) October 20, 2017
It's Jack Eichel's world, and we're all living in it. If only the Sabres were, too.
