I'm Sure Jack Eichel Would Love If Everybody Would Continue To Leave Him This Wide Open In The Slot
So Jack Eichel is clearly a big time fan of working on Columbus Day. He’s got 2 so far against Vegas this afternoon and holy shit what a filthy little move here in the slot to suck Fleury’s soul right out of his body.
Now here’s the thing. I’ve never made it to the NHL. I think people know that by now. I’m just a beer leaguer out here who tries my hardest and loves the game. But I’m pretty sure that if Jack Eichel is on the ice, you may not want to leave him wide open in the slot without anybody within 5 feet of the guy. I understand it may be hard to pick him up since he switched his number from 15 to 9 this season. But even so, that would have been Evander Kane last year and you might want to cover that guy as well, so I’m not buying that excuse for Vegas. You’ve got 3 guys down in the corner and Eichel had enough time to fire off a few texts before he had to finally get a shot off here. Little toe lift, little stick handling, little roof job. Doesn’t get much smoother than that. Only thing prettier than the goal might have been the celly after.
Eichel 100% saw Matthews and Kane go back and forth a little with their goal celebrations last night and he wanted to remind everyone that there’s another American stud out there who can put on a goddamn show. This looks like a combination of Prep School Face mixed with “Are You Not Entertained?”. So cocky. So confident. We live for this shit.
P.S. – Buffalo has 4 goals on like 4 shots in the 2nd period right now. Overs in the first few weeks of the NHL season is how we get rich for the entire year.