When the Buffalo Sabres released their training camp roster it included Jack Eichel. Any questions or doubts he wouldn’t attend were squashed after an AP report confirmed he would attend.
Today, the Sabres have announced that Eichel is not medically cleared to play and surgery is unavoidable.
On top of that, they stripped the 24 year-old of his captaincy.
“I spoke to Jack two days ago, I spoke to the team yesterday and addressed this, Jack Eichel is no longer the captain of the Buffalo Sabres,” GM Kevyn Adams said. “From our perspective, the captain is your heartbeat of your team, and we are in a situation where we felt we needed to make that decision.