Is the Golden Knights' problem Jack Eichel?

[Ninety7]

Imagine blaming one guy for his teams failure.

Anyone who’s ever touched a sheet of ice on a team other than beer league should know that one guy can’t do it all.

 

[5 Minute Major]

how can he be a problem when he’s making sweet tape to tape passes like this in a must win game

Because his neck hurts still.

 

[WeDislikeEich]

how can he be a problem when he’s making sweet tape to tape passes like this in a must win game

Get used to this, Vegas fans.

Eichel was Buffalo’s best player many nights but stuff like this was always a big pet peeve of mine with him. He would make the absolute worst no-look backhand passes at the worst times, and to high danger areas of the ice.

Like throwing a no-look backhand pass in front of his own net, or up the middle of the ice in his own zone. Or a big one was as he’d cross the blueline into the O-zone. Or when he was up at the blue line on a power play. That or a terrible drop pass at the blue line. It resulted in a lot of odd man rushes against. But we lived with it because he was our best player.

 

[berklon]

Jack I-Kill-my-teams-playoff-hopes.

 

[AintLifeGrand]

The Golden Knights real problem is the rapidly dropping Colorado River Watershed. Lake Mead is near deadpool and Vegas is running out of Water. By 2030 the Golden Knights will no longer be playing in Vegas.

 

[Royal Thunder]

Imagine blaming one guy for his teams failure.

Anyone who’s ever touched a sheet of ice on a team other than beer league should know that one guy can’t do it all.

Sounds exactly like what Sabres fans would say for the last 6 years. He leaves and suddenly the Sabres are playing their best hockey in a decade. Could be a coincidence for sure but it does make you think

 

[thaman8765678]

Imagine blaming one guy for his teams failure.

Anyone who’s ever touched a sheet of ice on a team other than beer league should know that one guy can’t do it all.

Well the team surely could have use 10 million on a good hockey player rather than Jack Eichel.

 

[Wackster]

Vegas have a lot of problem, Eichel is one of them

 

[Mrfenn92]

No not a eichel problem.

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

I believe Is and Are both work depending on how you're using the word Golden Knights. If you're addressing them as the entity, it's Is, if you're addressing them as a group it's Are. I'm not great at English tough, so I could be wrong.

"Is" is correct and not "Are", as "problem" refers to "Jack Eichel" and not "Golden Knights". If you reverse the sentence it is clear: "Jack Eichel is the Golden Knights problem".

The main issue is that the title is missing an apostrophe after "Knights" to mark it as a possessive. It should be "Golden Knights' problem".

However I hope they don't fix it as the thread title is so close to being right but fails by just the smallest margin, which is so fitting considering the topic of this thread It's almost as if the OP jinxed Vegas from the start of this thread with that missing apostrophe!

 

[Dirty Dog]

Fair point about them knowing about Eichel's injury. But if Patches and Stone merely played in 80% of the games, they probably win their division.

Also, I don't think anyone was expecting Eichel to be Superstar Eichel coming off that injury.

Even if they were healthy, they couldn’t play 80% of their games because they wouldn’t have been cap compliant. The team played through many stretches where some of the injured players literally could not have been activated if healthy…which REALLY takes away from the injury argument and shows the real issues on this team: roster construction.

 

[surixon]

Fair point about them knowing about Eichel's injury. But if Patches and Stone merely played in 80% of the games, they probably win their division.

Also, I don't think anyone was expecting Eichel to be Superstar Eichel coming off that injury.

They couldn't have played 80% healthy or not because Vegas wouldn't have been cap compliant. They tried to game the system ala Tampa but it backfired.

 

[PunchImlach is Alive]

Eichel showing up for training camp every year ready for another playoff run

 

[tkb81]

you can blame cap management or injuries .. im gonna blame organizational depth ... kings lost their whole defensive core for awhile .. but our depth kept us afloat ... also F the knights haha (sincerely from a kings fan)

 

[RavenGuard]

He isn't the problem but he sure didn't do much to help. Lol

 

[KingPuckChoo]

Eichel is a polished millennial Gen Z turd a la doooshhh

 

[LongWayDown37]

Imagine blaming one guy for his teams failure.

Anyone who’s ever touched a sheet of ice on a team other than beer league should know that one guy can’t do it all.

Pfft!! You haven’t actually played beer league then!! I’ve lost and won many a game because of one slick ringer on a team!

 

[klozge]

Eichel showing up for training camp every year ready for another playoff run

So you're saying Eichel is all elite? I disagree.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Karma is a bitch Jack.

 

[dasaybz]

If Jack wasn't such an asshat when he returned to Buffalo and got booed, I think this topic wouldn't be such a big deal. But he made himself out to be such a huge jerk that people really caught notice of that. I don't think he's a horrible teammate, and he's not the sole reason for Vegas being out of the playoffs. But as a Sabres fan it does feel pretty good right now. I don't hate the guy, he did a ton of good charity work with the Children's hospital around here, but man does he come off as a complete baby on the ice.

 

[John Strachan]

Imagine blaming one guy for his teams failure.

Anyone who’s ever touched a sheet of ice on a team other than beer league should know that one guy can’t do it all.

Then why does he get paid $10M?

 

[Aurinko]

Then why does he get paid $10M?

It's his salary in a team game where a single player (maybe apart of the goalie) can only do so much.

 

[DickSmehlik]

 

[PensandCaps]

Even if they were healthy, they couldn’t play 80% of their games because they wouldn’t have been cap compliant. The team played through many stretches where some of the injured players literally could not have been activated if healthy…which REALLY takes away from the injury argument and shows the real issues on this team: roster construction.

meh, not really. if they stayed healthy they would be cup contenders. I don't think they need to make much changes, signing Petro was probably not the smartest though.

 

[Daz28]

"Is" is correct and not "Are", as "problem" refers to "Jack Eichel" and not "Golden Knights". If you reverse the sentence it is clear: "Jack Eichel is the Golden Knights problem".

The main issue is that the title is missing an apostrophe after "Knights" to mark it as a possessive. It should be "Golden Knights' problem".

However I hope they don't fix it as the thread title is so close to being right but fails by just the smallest margin, which is so fitting considering the topic of this thread It's almost as if the OP jinxed Vegas from the start of this thread with that missing apostrophe!

Would Are work if you were considering the Knights as a collective group though? Like as out of all the group, Jack Eichel is the problem?