Steve, Jesse and Adam discuss the recent update surrounding Jack Eichel, the Buffalo Sabres and what actually went on with his medical situation.
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They working out a deal for a trade with the leafs. dubas will then rework his contact to a team friendly hometown discount contract of 8 years 11 million per year!!! Eichel wants to be a leaf!!! Book it!!!
The thing is that you can’t actually sign away a legal right in a contract. That’s why any good contract is severable—meaning that if a clause violates your rights it can be removed from the contact without voiding the contract completely. The Eichel camp is hoping that the threat of outside arbitration will make the Sabres (or the NHL) blink, because there’s no guarantee that the clause survives a legal challenge.
The thing I’ve been wondering this whole time is can he retire, get the surgery since he wouldn’t be under the teams control and then unretire? Obviously it’d be a big risk in case he can’t play again but it sounds like his camp is pretty confident in the surgery
Jack burned every bridge in Western NY/S Ontario. No one cares about him here. He can get a million opinions, means ZERO. Sit Jack, sit.
I just don’t understand why he doesn’t want to do the surgery the Sabres are pushing towards.
those doctors are all wh**es at the end of the day, just like in the justice system when they are calling their so called 'experts' to give their 'professional' opinion. What a shocker, every time they are on the same side as the one that pays them
i remember my chicago bulls almost killed loul deng because of what team drs said, and they were wrong…..team drs are not always right
Jesse get a real job you aren't a sports fan or enthusiast
Why is it OK for Eichel to act in a way to protect his 50 million contract but the Sabres can't protect their 50 million dollar investment?
Someone needs to clear the air here: it’s not the team that is saying no to the player. It’s the insurance company that holds the policy for Jack that is saying NO. They pay the policy out if Jack can no longer honor the contract due to injury.
As a 2 level ADR patient, I hope Jack sticks to his choice. There is substantial proof ADR is superior to fusion. Peel back the layers to what is really going on here. Thousands of primary North American surgeons are trained in fusion only – very few trained in ADR. As people become more educated the shift away from fusion will grow and grow. We don’t enough surgeons trained in ADR and it’s expensive to retrain them. Not to mention lobby groups using their influence. Don’t fall for the problems caused by the Charite disc no one uses that anymore. The new discs are superior and offer full degrees of motion lessening the pressure on adjacent discs. Jack might be the first to insist he won’t be the last. Surprised it took this long. When he’s 75 he’ll be so glad he insisted.
why does each team have a team doctor, the nhl should just have several doctors themselves, cuts all biased bs
As pointed out by ye previously, all movement is on the eichel side
Remember…Eichel is likely not seeking opinions from many, if any, doctors who still primarily do fusion surgeries. He's getting opinions primarily, if not fully, from those doing ADR surgery. Thus, his "study" group is skewed in his favor. The Sabres could probably just as easily get opinions from doctors who primarily do fusion surgeries, including the caveat that the surgery is desired to be performed on an NHL player, where ADR heretofore has not been attempted. The information they gather would thus counter that from the Eichel camp…and you would seem to be right back where you started. Besides, until one of the surgeons steps forward and actually says he should have the ADR surgery, and I'll do it for him, AND I will assume all financial risks should the surgery not work and he ends up needing fusion surgery, or the surgery doesn't work and his career is over…then the opinion of all those doctors advocating that he get ADR isn't worth spit. It's easy to advocate for something when you're not the one holding the bag if things don't go as planned or stated.
You all seem to ignore that there is an insurance company involved here. Independent from the team. If the insurance company says no then the team says no because they are now liable for the full cost of Eichel's contract if things go sideways. It isn't the team they have to convince it's the insurance company covering 80% Eichel's $10M salary.
I hope this doesn't happen obviously but it would be something if the Sabres let Jack get his surgery and in a few years is forced to retire after re inuring his disk
Like I said it's right there in the paperwork the only way he wins a grievance is if the Sabres never offered any medical opinion…Jack's camp is just putting eichel in a deeper hole hes already in let him file he grievance it's going to fall into deaf ears it's in black & white with the CBA
No one is holding a gun to Eichel's head keeping him from going ahead with the surgery. I assume if he gets the surgery without the teams approval his contract is voided. Eichel wants the surgery and the guaranteed money if it goes wrong? why won't anyone in the media discuss this? are they afraid to call out a player? if anyone has the answers to this please reply as I'm just guessing at this.
The disconnect just seems to be growing in my opinion—they need to stop trying to dictate what the kid can and cannot do with HIS medical decisions and personal health regardless of what some piece of paper says or doesn’t say…it’s that simple! 😒
These f—king doctors are being too conservatively retarded in my opinion—I mean Jesus let the kid sign a health waiver and do whatever the hell he wants and feels right with his body…if anything this hardball bullshit is just gonna make him more bitter more angry!
I hear NYR is actually willing to let him pick his procedure so—I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens! 🤷🏼♂️
This is slowly becoming a bureaucratic my body my choice thing! 😄😄😄
So—basically they’re playing ‘politics’ over a procedure and the kid’s freedom of medical choice…that’s what I hear IDK??? 🤷🏼♂️😄
To all of you taking Eichel's side: what if a spoiled brat in your team did the same thing? Stop bashing the Sabres just because they had a few rough years. Eichel can have his surgery if he pays for it and accept the consequenses, except he won't. He want the Sabres to take all the risks. The Sabres invested a shitload of money in Eichel. They are totally entitled to protect that investment. What if Eichel have his surgery and never is able to play again. Who will reimburse the Sabres then? Eichel knew exactly what he gave up when he signed that 10 mil contract. Now it seems like all goes "poor Jack". Stop blaming the Sabres, tell Jack Eichel that a signed contract stands, and stop feeling sorry for multimillionaire players. Just do the friggin' surgery and go on with your life.