A Former Teammate Spills The Beans On Jack Eichel

That trade was acquiring super star center from the Buffalo Sabres Jack Eichel, in exchange for Payton Krebs, Alex Tuch, and picks. That didn't come to futrition as the Golden Knights would disappoint not even making post season action.

This caused many to call Eichel a curse was especially from Sabres fans that say Eichel is a locker room cancer.
This caused a former teammate of Eichel to speak on his time playing with Eichel. Kyle Kyle Okposo joined the Sabres via Free agency in 2016 would would reveal he built a pretty good bond with his former teammate when Eichel was in Buffalo.

Okposo said that the situation after Eichel left was stressful referring to Eichel's surgery he wanted to repair herniated disc's in his back.

"That situation was very stressful on everybody. I love Jack, he's a good friend of mine. And like obviously, I have a job to do and l'm a Sabres player. Jack and I have had so many conversations and we've
talked about it so much and the only person that's ever gonna be privy to those is Jack. He knows exactly how feel about him. He knows care about him and he knows do anything to help him.

It was just such a difficult situation because for whatever reason, the CBA Was written to where the team had control of the final medical thing. As a person, obviously you're not going to let anyone tell you what to do with your body, right? So it was a rock and a hard place, and I think that Pat came in Pat Brisson, who's my agent he came in, he did a great job at navigating the whole situation. Him and Kevyn worked really closely together to get that done in am amicable way. And I'm so happy that Jack ended up getting the surgery, and now he's healthy. think for our team, and the way that it affected us, Kevyn came in and was very, very honest what was going on, right off the bat. In the locker room, it didn't really affect us too much. Jack wasn't around, which sucked. It sucked not having him around, but we just were kind of focused on playing, and that's what we tried to do"

- Kyle Okposo