The big news about Jack Eichel is official

"I talked to Jack two days ago, I talked to the team yesterday and I addressed it, Jack Eichel is no longer the captain of the Buffalo Sabres. From our perspective, the captain is the heartbeat of your team, and we're in a situation where we felt we had to make that decision," said Kevyn Adams.

So Adams and the Sabres were supposed to make a decision on the captain, but he's stalling on another issue - getting Eichel out of Buffalo. We all know the love affair is over between the two parties.

Hey, taking the "C" off a player doesn't happen every day. Quickly, I think of Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton and Dustin Brown, who had this letter of nobility taken away once upon a time.

All in all, it's absolutely true that the captain of a hockey team remains the heart of the locker room, so this was the direction to take for the Sabres.