Jack Eichel briefly gazed toward the rafters as he drifted to center ice with the game on his stick. Every other set of eyes in the building were on him.
If there was a lot on his mind in the moments preceding his overtime penalty shot on Thursday, the Sabres captain wasn't going to reveal it afterward.
"Just try to score, honestly," Eichel said. "I don't know. Just come down, shoot it. (The) ice isn't good, I was fighting it a little bit tonight. So just come down, keep it simple, try to shoot the puck."
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