-Video includes highlights of Jack Eichel during the 2013-2014 WJC U20 Hockey Tournament in Malmo, Sweden. Look for #15!
-Team USA and Eichel lost in the quarterfinals against Team Russia. Eichel finished with 1 goal and 4 assists in 5 games.
-Eichel is currently playing for USNTDP, plans to play for Boston University for the 2014-2015 season. He is draft eligible for the 2015 NHL draft.
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he's gonna be good
i would take him over mcdavid any day
A power forward with speed and nice hands. You can't build a more perfect NHL prototype player.
Put him with Getzlaf and Perry…. O_O
maybe the red wings will get him.. oh wait they never get a top 5 pick
A Correy Perry with more talent. Ouch
A very good skater he generates alot of power in his stride. much like the way taylor hall skates
Eichel is defiantly good but not as dominant as MCDAVID
not as explosive as mcdavid
People forget eichels a age group older then mcdavid
not a shot he goes before mcdavid
Eichel and mcdavid two different players and to say who's going to have a better nhl career now is unpredictable, but both definitely have great things ahead
Mcdavids hands are much better and he has a lot of steals similar to datsyuk but will still have his fair share of goals
On the other hand eickel is a power forward who will force goals and will use his speed and he is older.
I'm not gonna lie im an american but mcdavid will probably go first overall he's just a bit better
Eichel and Mcdavid are two completely different players and both do things well. I don't think you can really say who will do better in the NHL or who should go first in the draft. McDavids game is a little talked up because people have been talking about him for years. Also his style of play is more entertaiing where as Eichel is just emerging as a well known player in the same McDavid and a lot of what he does well goes unnoticed to someone who doesn't know the game
I live close to where McDavid plays in Pennsylvania and I've been to a few games and if you take the body on him he can't do anything Eichel to me seems like the number 1 pick
Mcdavid could score 200 pts this year. He has had 4 points a game in 3 strait and could have had 5 or 6 in the other 2. If he had a quality player like kane had in london in sam ganer he would easily scor 4 to 5 points a game. This kid has bure like aceleration and crosby like vision there is nobody better eichel is good but mcdavid is the next great canadian.
If you add mcdavids pre season points in 3 games he has like 28 points in 8 games
McDavid is definitely silkier. Eichel may be stronger. They're both insanely creative.
He's a great player, but McDavid is better
Welcome to the Edmonton Oilers
Eichel is a playmaker with great hands and can score like datsyuk. Mcdavid is just a pure natural goal scorer like Crosby
Eichel is going to be a really effective player, he already has two crucial skills for success in the NHL: puck protection & strength. But he's nowhere near the talent that Mcdavid is, can't see how you could compare them.
This is what the USA needs, a talented D man who is mobile as hell. Looking at team USA vs Canada in the Olympics it was clear as day that the USA was so out classed in that area that if it wasn't for Quick it would have been a blow out.
Too many americans trying to talk about hockey on here. Mcdavid is better. Eichel is good but Mcdavid is so much better. Mcdavid has Kanes hands, Crosbys vision and Grabners speed. The guy is on pace to put up more points this year than any of them. Eichel is like a speedier Ryan Getzlaf
The next Parise? He's strong on his skates, and likes to shoot a lot.
Canada still stomps USA lol
He said he was a habs fan as growing up , smart kid 😉
Like if you're an Oilers fan
A young Gilbert Perreault
Welcome to the leafs 😉
he's strong but he doesnt have much flare in his offense… like connor do
Eichel seems pretty speedy on those fast breaks from his highlights I'd say I'm glad to have him go sabs!!
Kid def has a lot of talent but he seems to be impatient. He looks for the shot first even though he has teammates in better position. If he can learn to look for the pass first instead of shooting it everytime he gets the puck near the goal, I think he could have beaten Mcdavid for the first overall pick. I've seen Mcdavid highlights and that kid can pass the puck like crazy. Much better than Eichel.
Eichel is a great player no doubt and so is McDavid.. I am still waiting to see if McDavid is better than Crosby.. Erie got smoked by Oshawa with all that fire power. Wait until McDavid comes up against real defenceman.. then we will see how good he really is.
Eichel was so good at 17 it was crazy
What impressed me the most is that Erne (his linemate in this video) was so dominant in the QMJHL and you can see there’s an enormous gap between Eichs and Erne. These two could have been teammates with the Quebec Remparts