Bedard’s exploding fame this past season made his junior team in Regina, Saskatchewan, one of the centers of the hockey universe. The enormous attention was both thrilling and overwhelming for team employees. “There was no playbook for this,” CEO Gord Pritchard said.
31 Thoughts: What caused the disconnect between Eichel, Sabres
Elliotte Friedman joins Hockey Central to talk about the tensions between Jack Eichel and Buffalo Sabres. | May 11, 2021, 12:14 PM
May 11, 2021, 12:14 PM
• How did Eichel, Sabres get here?
• A look at the NHL coaching carousel
• When will North Division series start?
What we know: Jack Eichel dropped a neutron bomb on the Buffalo Sabres. As the team’s captain revealed Monday, he’s “a bit upset about the way that things have been handled since I’ve been hurt…. There’s been a bit of a disconnect from the organization and myself.
“The most important thing is trying to get healthy and figure out a way to be available to play hockey next year wherever that might be.”