Before anybody gets carried away here, I’m not saying that Jack Eichel is severely underrated.
It’s not like he’s some obscure, relatively unknown.
Everybody knows he’s a star in this league.
Now this isn’t some indictment on hockey fans.
It’s not like Jack Eichel deserves better.
But this just goes to show how ridiculously loaded the NHL is with talent right now.
Every single night there’s a killer on the ice in the NHL.
Matthews, Bedard, MacKinnon, Kucherov, a bunch of different goalies.
Jack Eichel is right up there with all of them.
19 points in 13 games so far this season.
If this was 2003-04, he’d be the best player in the world.
But he happens to be alive during the absolute peak of stardom in the sport of hockey right now.
Goddamn are we spoiled.
