‘”Everybody has to realize that he had an injury pre-training camp that pretty well parked him from doing a lot of physical activities for multiple weeks,” Krueger said on WGR 550. “He started training camp a week delayed. The game pace that we’ve had and the forced almost eight-day break (for NHL COVID-19 protocol) that everyone had a few weeks ago, he has worked as hard as anybody else to get himself up to speed. But all the circumstances are preventing him from being at 100 percent physical condition and shape because we just have no practices and we have no training time between the games.”‘
Eichel slowed by injury sustained before Sabres training camp, coach says
Source: NHL.com