{"id":36495,"date":"2018-10-03T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=36495"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:03:35","slug":"buffalo-sabres-name-jack-eichel-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/10\/03\/buffalo-sabres-name-jack-eichel-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Name Jack Eichel Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Buffalo Sabres<\/strong> announced Wednesday that they have named forward\u00a0<strong>Jack Eichel<\/strong> the 27<sup>th<\/sup> captain in franchise history. Forward <strong>Kyle Okposo<\/strong> and Defenseman <strong>Zach Bogosian<\/strong> have been named alternate captains.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jack Eichel. Buffalo Sabres captain.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoBuffalo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LetsGoBuffalo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sabres?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sabres<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6N6ujWHhGb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6N6ujWHhGb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres\/status\/1047513946943574017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>Jack Eichel Named Captain of the Sabres<\/h1>\n<p>In three seasons with the Sabres, Eichel has 73 goals and 104 assists for 177 career points in 209 NHL games. Eichel was selected with the Sabres first-round pick, second overall in the 2015 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old is the highest paid player on the Sabres. He is in the first year of an eight-year, $80 million contract\u00a0extension\u00a0that he signed with the team last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really humbling. Just to be in the consideration would be an honour. It\u2019s a huge honour. Obviously I\u2019ve shown how invested I am in this city and I\u2019m excited for the future,\u201d Eichel said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sabres?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sabres<\/a> Captain Jack Eichel: \u201cIt\u2019s really humbling. Just to be in the consideration would be an honor. It\u2019s a huge honor. Obviously I\u2019ve shown how invested I am in this city and I\u2019m excited for the future.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vgeCzCOfCz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/vgeCzCOfCz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres\/status\/1047521684008423424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was a difficult decision; we have a great leadership group. We believe Jack has made the right steps in his maturity. And we believe he\u2019s the right guy to lead our franchise,\u201d said Head Coach Phil Housley on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Housley on naming a captain: &quot;It was a difficult decision; we have a great leadership group. We believe Jack has made the right steps in his maturity. And we believe he&#39;s the right guy to lead our franchise.&quot; \u2694\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JnFZlCr8z5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/JnFZlCr8z5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres\/status\/1047530620581281792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eichel is the latest captain since <strong>Brian Gionta<\/strong>, who became a free agent at the conclusion of the 2016-17 season. He signed with the <strong>Boston Bruins<\/strong> in February and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/09\/24\/brian-gionta-retires-after-16-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently retired<\/a>. The Sabres were without a captain last season.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Eichel wear the \u201cC\u201d for the first time this season on Thursday night against the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres announced Wednesday that they have named forward\u00a0Jack Eichel the 27th captain in franchise history. Forward Kyle Okposo and Defenseman Zach Bogosian have been named alternate captains. Jack Eichel. Buffalo Sabres captain.#LetsGoBuffalo #Sabres pic.twitter.com\/6N6ujWHhGb \u2014 Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) October 3, 2018 Jack Eichel Named Captain of the Sabres In three seasons with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2202,"featured_media":14012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[226,213,219,698],"class_list":["post-36495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sabres","tag-brian-gionta","tag-jack-eichel","tag-kyle-okposo","tag-zach-bogosian"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}