‘“You don’t want to assume anything before it’s happened,” he said. “So until it was set in stone I didn’t want to publicly even speak about my feeling for the Sabres organization. I wanted to be a part of this. Now that it’s finally set in stone I can say this is where I wanted to be and it’s a dream come true.”’
Jack Eichel thrilled to be drafted by Sabres: ‘I wanted to be a part of this’
Source: Olean Times Herald