Witnessing a player rummaging through a trash bin during a game is quite an odd sight. However, understanding the reason behind it makes it less unsettling.
In fact, after scoring a hat trick on Sunday, Eichel wanted to hold onto a memento in the form of caps tossed onto the ice by fans!
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Eichel later shared what Bruce Cassidy had said to the team.
"Butch (Bruce Cassidy) was saying that he wants to start a new tradition that if you get a hat-trick you take one of the hats and put it up... I was looking in the container and it had nice hockey laces on it so I grabbed it. It's not a bad hat... but I'm not going to put it in my house,"
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