"I can't say enough good things about the fans here. They love hockey, they deserve a winner. I feel bad that I wasn't able to contribute more to winning here, but they deserve it all," Eichel said in an interview with ESPN's John Buccigross. "I really, truly care a lot about the fans here in Buffalo."
"It's been tough since I got hurt. It just seems like things haven't really went my way, and that's fine, people deal with adversity, and this is no different," he said. "It's definitely been a long process. ... Just a lot of drama that you don't really want to deal with. I guess you just learn to.
