Analyzing Golden Knights’ forward Jack Eichel’s rollercoaster season

On today’s episode of Daily Faceoff Live, Ken Boehlke of Sin Bin Vegas joined the show to talk about the Vegas Golden Knights and Jack Eichel. 

Matt Larkin: Ken, before we let you go, I just wanted to get your assessment of year 1 in terms of a full season of the Jack Eichel rollercoaster. There are moments where he’s looked like a world-beater, some slumps, injury problems, and then back up on the rollercoaster so what’s your overall assessment of how he looks and how he fits into the locker room? 

Ken Boehlke: I think the more you watch him, you start to understand what Buffalo fans were telling us forever. Everyone watches the guy and you see the parts of his game that it’s like this guy is it, this guy is elite, this is what we need. Then, as you said, you take a look at moments in the season and it’s like man, what are we doing here? You had a moment last night where he picked up the puck behind his own goal and just kinda stands there and a Flyers player took it, and it probably should’ve been a goal if not for Jonathan Quick, still can’t believe that’s real life.

But he is an elite player, and he has elite tendencies, and it’s just whether or not it will be turned on every single night. I think it is getting better, as we have gone on throughout the season we’ve seen more and more of him be consistent which makes him good on both ends, we just don’t know what it will look like in the playoffs. That’s what we have not seen ever, and those are going to be the moments when the games will get tighter, and he will have to make more of these plays more consistently. We’re going to see it, I don’t expect a point-per-game output in the playoffs, but I do expect him to be their best scorer. 

You can watch the full episode here…