‘”Everyone’s going out of their way to stop you and tell you how proud they are,” he says. “Even when things were bad, I really credit this city for being patient. I’m from Boston. It’s not that way there at all.” Indeed, Eichel was born into a generation practically baptized with champagne. The Curse of the Bambino was broken on the eve of his eighth birthday and nothing was ever the same. “I saw the Sox win in ’07 and ’13, the Celtics when they had the Big Three, the Patriots win a million times,” Eichel says. “The equipment guys here joke that I grew up spoiled.”‘