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On Trading Jack Eichel

11/04/2021 at 2:34pm EDT

from John Vogl of The Athletic,

Kevyn Adams took a deep breath. He looked down and shook his head with a pained grin. He took another deep breath.

The Sabres general manager repeated this multiple times.

“It has been a really challenging situation,” Adams said about the Jack Eichel trade process, which finally concluded Thursday in a deal with Vegas. “It’s so complicated when you’re dealing with a superstar-level player. That’s complicated enough, and then you take in the medical and all the other things that were going on …”

He briefly laughed. A distressed laugh.

“Whoof, I guess I wasn’t ready for that question,” Adams said, trying to maintain his emotions.

In answering what he learned about trading a superstar, Adams showed the pain that many have felt. It hasn’t been easy for the GM, who was trying to reconcile an organization’s losing past with building a brighter future. It’s been indescribably hard on Eichel, who had his health and hockey stripped away through a herniated disk in his neck, and his family.

continued (paid)

added 2:47pm, Elliotte Friedman sat down with Eichel today. Watch a snippet below and the full interview will be up later tonight.

added 4:25pm, full interview with Eichel is below.

Another snippet.

added 4:25pm, I beleive this is the full interview with Eichel.

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